Example sentences of "india [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fantastic though it may seem , in retrospect , the British proceeded to apply to India the Canadian model , complete with its Burkeian fallacy , that liberty equals empire , and with its federalist corollary . |
| 2 | In southern India The Body Shop has provided the means to set up a boys ' town for destitute youngsters . |
| 3 | Earth Report ( 1988 ) , for example , states that in Pakistan more than 65 per cent of the country 's 150 000 km 2 of irrigated land are thus affected ; in Egypt 35 per cent of farmland has salinity and waterlogging problems and in Iraq and India the situation is similarly acute . |
| 4 | Baker is keen to develop with India the kind of relationship on space technology that Britain has with Canada . |
| 5 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |
| 6 | In India the production of salt was a government monopoly : he announced that he would walk the 250 miles from Ahmedabad to the sea and break the law by making salt . |
| 7 | There was , of course , no question of denying India the freedom which had so often been promised in the irresponsibility of opposition . |
| 8 | Throughout the southern and western parts of India the live snake itself is also the object of veneration , and at a multitude of Cobra shrines and in temples it is fed on milk , sweetmeats , sugar , etc. , nurtured and worshipped as being the bodily vehicle of that higher cosmic power or spirit which is to be approached with reverence and honoured . |
| 9 | Throughout India the image of the Swastika is as ubiquitous as the image of the Serpent . |
| 10 | On Siva temples throughout India the right-angled Swastika is ever present . |
| 11 | All over India the right-angled Swastika is commonly regarded as a sign of good luck . |
| 12 | In India the total population is currently about 665 million of which 244 million ( 37% ) are economically active . |
| 13 | A rapacious British land taxation policy was partly responsible for a series of famines in Bengal in the second half of the eighteenth century , while elsewhere in India the staple foods of the poor such as millet and pulses were displaced by the production for export of grains and commercial crops ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 79 , 84 , 86 ) . |
| 14 | Thus in caste-bound India the role of spirit-inspired priest or ‘ shaman ’ , the onset of which is announced by a possession ‘ illness ’ , is a career enabling low caste men to climb to positions of eminence and power . |
| 15 | In India the power of the Moghul Empire was rising to its zenith . |
| 16 | Parliament had some regard for the rights of property ; the old Company was allowed to run in competition with the new one for a few years , and of course in India the old Company had advantages in organization , in diplomatic connections , and in possessing established forts and factories . |
| 17 | One has seen within the vast population of India the emergence of a substantial middle class with purchasing power equal to any European nation . |
| 18 | Over India the Unionists resented the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms in general . |
| 19 | Like Congress in India the AFPFL secured the key Home ministry . |
| 20 | Whereas in Europe , the Nile Valley , south-west Asia and India the supreme measure of value attached to gold , in China and the Maya zone of Mesoamerica it went to jade . |
| 21 | When they first obtained them from India the Romans mounted them as finger-rings less for their appearance than as symbols of hardness and strength . |
| 22 | In India the situation was further complicated by dietary requirements . |
| 23 | In India the railways never made any attempt to distinguish among the castes . |
| 24 | But in India the technology for this does not exist . |
| 25 | In India the Self Employed Women 's Association is a co-operative of informals with its own sickness benefit and welfare scheme . |
| 26 | Will he urge on the Government of India the importance of allowing independent observers and visitors into that region , and of taking up Pakistan 's offer that independent observers should be stationed along the line of control , to deal with the movement of people and the problem of terrorism , as well as the human rights issue ? |
| 27 | Not bad for a boy whose first two Tests , against India the winter before last , ended with him nursing figures of one for 228 . |
| 28 | Enough food to give 330 children in India a nourishing meal . |
| 29 | The fluency of Indians in English , a legacy of British rule , has made India a lucrative hunting ground for US computer firms on the lookout for qualified computer manpower . |
| 30 | For Richard Warner , this sailor also brought from India a Cycas circinalis , unfortunately to be decapitated by crossfire from the French when nearly home . |