Example sentences of "in british " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridget Riley came to prominence as an artist in the 1960s , when her dazzling patterned paintings were a clear success in British Op Art . |
| 2 | Undoubtedly one of the best ways the overseas student has of seeing what is required in British theatre training is to apply for one of the summer schools offered by the drama schools , and find out what it 's all about before committing him- or herself to a long and expensive stay . |
| 3 | Many American students working in British drama schools find the answer to this question by using what is called ‘ standard American ’ , and this approach is being used now in training on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 4 | Her films are a wry and witty commentary on the 50's , that strange watershed in British history . |
| 5 | American born Howard Schuman is one of the most original and idiosyncratic script writers working in British television . |
| 6 | Its parents are the European Aster amellus , of which many varieties are grown in gardens , and the Himalayan A. thomsonii , usually represented in British gardens by the dwarf form ‘ Nanus ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ This is a major step forward in British men 's tennis — truly a first , ’ commented the LTA 's Director of National Training , Richard Lewis . |
| 8 | So far , many of the improvements they brought about have survived , and the fragmented bus industry has not yet led to a breakdown of the integrated ticketing that marked such a step forward in British practice . |
| 9 | It is painted in British Telecom yellow livery with blue lettering . |
| 10 | The East End once boasted the biggest brewery in the world , and it gave birth to some of the most famous names in British brewing history . |
| 11 | The objects of derision may be placed , in order of increasing generality , in the following list : the institutional study of English Literature in British higher education ; English Literature ; Englishness ; literature ; bourgeois society ( which includes racism and sexism ) ; late capitalism ; Western culture . |
| 12 | I have attempted to take a rapid view of developments in critical theory , or criticism with a theoretical consciousness , as they have appeared in British culture in the past twenty years . |
| 13 | When English was established in British universities criticism played at best a minor part in it . |
| 14 | It is possible for sixth-form students in British secondary schools to take the Advanced- ( ‘ A ’ — ) level examination for school-leavers in such subjects as philosophy or economics or sociology , but it is not at all common , and incoming university students of these subjects usually begin at the beginning , with open minds but with the necessary commitment to learning . |
| 15 | Swallow 's predicament is a very familiar one in British academics of his generation , as is his non-possession of a Ph.D. , that basic certificate of academic professionalism in American eyes ( and now in English ones ) . |
| 16 | The decline has been inconspicuous rather than dramatic , and is patchy ; the existence in British academic life of external examiners is something of a safeguard ( they are unknown in American universities , where quality control is even less secure ) . |
| 17 | I can not see how they could be established in British literary education , where there are no graduate schools as such , and the narrow , uphill tunnel of A-level work leads on to the rocky , cloudy uplands of the undergraduate degree , with its confused mixture of practical criticism and thematic study , analysis and literary history , coverage and special subjects . |
| 18 | Not just unmetrical poets like Pound ( for the most part ) and Bunting , but also a strictly metrical poet like the later Yvor Winters , came to think that the finest auditory effects in English-language verse were attained by those poets who attended to the quantitative elements in British or American speech as an incalculable dimension super-added to the recognized and calculable dimensions of syllable-count and stresscount . |
| 19 | Certainly the aspiration is not limited in modern times to those who have read Emaux et Camées , the French book that Pound respectfully pillaged for Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; it is to be found in all modern poetries known to me , Russian and Polish as well as French , and ( more faintly ) in British and American . |
| 20 | He is the engaging chairman of CB 's management board , whose education at the Ecole Polytechnique and doctorate from Stanford University create an aura of international competence one meets too rarely in British companies . |
| 21 | But , says a refinement of this view — and Mrs Thatcher and Chris Patten , her Secretary of State for the Environment believe this too — wastes should be disposed of in their country of origin : that is a new drift in British policy . |
| 22 | The conference approved the Productive and Competitive Economy policy review , which proposes : A full employment target ; the creation of a strengthened trade and industry department to steer strategic investment ; A nationwide information technology cable network ; Anti-inflation measures ; Intervention only where the market fails ; To regain a majority shareholding in British Telecom by buying 2 per cent of privatised shares at the market price ; To regain majority control of other privatised utilities when funds allow . |
| 23 | Foreign affairs are not often an important factor in British general elections . |
| 24 | The Conservative Party is the only major Party in British politics where the Party Chair , Vice Chair and Treasurer are appointed by the Leader . |
| 25 | There are eight varieties of olives , bulk and bottled , including a Californian one stuffed with jalapeno ; olive oil , most famously Carbonell whose comely wench pictured on the labels must be the emblem of Spanish olive oil in British imaginations , comes in gallon tins rather than fancy little bottles . |
| 26 | Third , it financed a massive increase in British imports , and a critical deterioration in the British balance of payments . |
| 27 | We are now plainly operating on a Deutschmark standard , and the rise in British base rate to 15 per cent was dictated by the rise in German rates . |
| 28 | If there is a changing mood in British politics favouring moderation I suspect the Conservative Party … is about to react to it . ’ |
| 29 | In some cases , overseas groups have just taken speculative shareholdings in British insurance companies in the hope that their interest may flush out other buyers . |
| 30 | John Gummer , Secretary of State for Agriculture , said : ‘ We can not have a situation in which the consumer does not have absolute confidence in British eggs . |