Example sentences of "on british " in BNC.
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| 1 | He quoted the dismissive comment of the writer of the volume on British Painting 1530–1790 in the Pelican History of Art : ‘ To discuss the Sartorius tribe and such painters is no business of the historian of art , no matter how bitter the accusations of neglect are wont to be from those specialist writers who sometimes confuse the history of art with praising famous horses . ’ |
| 2 | We have problems on British television because our theatrical tradition gets in the way , so-that characters talk too much , as though the medium is only half way from the stage . |
| 3 | The Italian influence on British cooking has resulted in a shift away from traditional classical sauces and stocks towards an emphasis on ‘ something exquisitely fresh , with the least amount of modification in the process of preparation ’ , to quote from an old Tuscan cookery book . |
| 4 | Yet what we normally get to see on British cinema screens represents a small slice of what is produced globally . |
| 5 | Casey Jones , with its colourful , upbeat presentation , its production-line methods and its computer-controlled cooking , was light years away from anything seen before on British stations . |
| 6 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 7 | Her application was not processed in time for her to fly home on British Airways with the rest of the family so the flight was cancelled . |
| 8 | In practice one can only talk about one thing at a time , and in this Chapter I shall risk a distorting simplicity by looking at questions of theory largely in isolation from institutional matrices and situations , and concentrating on British activities to the exclusion of the American ones that accompanied or preceded them . |
| 9 | He edited a new journal , the British Studies Monitor , and was an active figure in the New England Historical Association , the North American Conference on British Studies , and other professional societies . |
| 10 | At much the same time , however , workers on British Rail successfully defended their procedures in the courts and subsequently went on to conduct a very effective strike from which they emerged victorious . |
| 11 | Along with many of the other development corporations , the skills and experience in creating new communities have been dispersed — a fact that always amazes foreign visitors who look on British new towns as one of the major achievements of post-war planning anywhere in the world . |
| 12 | Many organisations might be involved after an attack on British forces . |
| 13 | The image of policing gleaned from police programmes on British and American television and in films is very much how Easton 's police see themselves , as others have commented with respect to police forces elsewhere ( Holdaway 1983 : 147 ; Hurd 1979 ; Klockars 1983 ; Morris and Heal 1981 ; Tuska 1979 ) . |
| 14 | Against that competition it is not altogether surprising that British newspaper readers found better issue coverage on British television . |
| 15 | This offers training ( minimum age 18 ) and assessment ( minimum age 20 ) , qualifying you to lead others on summer hill walks on British mountains . |
| 16 | A deal was struck under which Britain would allow US Cruise missiles to be sited on British soil . |
| 17 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 18 | Limits on British government are limits on the Prime Minister . |
| 19 | In its impact on British politics and economic policy it has already been remarkably successful . |
| 20 | The government has challenged many of the assumptions of several participants and commentators on British politics . |
| 21 | Finally , in December 1945 , the Ministry of Civil Aviation 's White paper on British air services , Cmd. 6712 , which set down the new government 's aviation policy , was submitted to the Cabinet by Lord Winster . |
| 22 | It was caused by the IRA , which had chosen that week to leave a couple of bombs on British Rail mainline stations . |
| 23 | Despite the view that television has created a ‘ global village ’ in which similar electronic images flicker before countless millions creating a common mass culture , the presentation of sport on British television differs sharply from that of the United States or of France . |
| 24 | The Irish enforced a ‘ Ban ’ on British sports in the sense that those who wished to play Gaelic football or hurling under the aegis of the Gaelic Athletic Association could not also play football or cricket . |
| 25 | More pressing is the statistical report on British military travellers to the Soviet Sector last month : 7,874 travellers in June , an increase of over 2,000 on the same month last year . |
| 26 | The bulk of the blame for all that is placed on British Rail , which knowingly permitted these things to continue . |
| 27 | It is a collective liability which lies on British Rail . ’ |
| 28 | In the American view , the British Isles were too exposed to risk production or minimal stockpiling of atomic weapons on British soil . |
| 29 | The EEC negotiations were not entirely without impact on British politics . |
| 30 | Large additional costs could be seen arising from the Nassau Agreement on British participation in the American-sponsored NATO Multilateral Force as part of the quid pro quo for Polaris . |