Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] britain [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the conviction of Hiss , 1950 brought the trial in Britain of the former Los Alamos scientist , Klaus Fuchs , found guilty of passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | The Labour Party was deeply divided — principally over foreign policy and rearmament , issues on which the Bevanite left was fighting a losing battle against the alignment of Britain with the USA , without mass popular support — and was unable to present its supporters with a convincing programme . |
| 3 | Development of the social services was seen as concentrating on improving the Big Four — unemployment insurance , workmen 's compensation , health insurance and old-age pensions — which provided against the ‘ interruption of earnings ’ which caused five-sixths of the want in Britain before the war . |
| 4 | The Christmas tree has been part of the festivities in Britain since the last century . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've got to remember that the Trunchbull once threw the hammer for Britain in the Olympics so she 's very proud of her right arm . ’ |
| 6 | No doubt , in many ways this gloom about the condition of Britain in the seventies was exaggerated . |
| 7 | The entry of Britain into the Common Market in 1973 had given us access to a 10% repayment scheme of the Consolidated Fund , allowed under EEC rules , and it was from this source that the money would come for the expansion of the Customs fleet . |
| 8 | There is an underlying hostility to the arts in Britain on the part of the mass of people and that , I think , is a result of the way in which the arts have become associated in many people 's minds with snobbery , with money and , in the case of Scotland , with anglicisation . |
| 9 | ‘ We will be campaigning throughout the country on the theme ‘ the betrayal of Britain by the Conservative Party ’ , and saying the tax increases are merely to pay for mistakes of the past . ’ |
| 10 | I felt that it should now be placed on record that the monumental and disgraceful row which was a feature during the Battle of Britain between the two Air Vice-Marshals — Keith Park and Leigh Mallory — was in no way comparable to the discord that appeared to exist between Bennett and AVM Sir Ralph Cochrane , AOC No 5 Group . |
| 11 | THE influence of Britain on the European Community sank to an all-time low in 1989 and 1990 . |
| 12 | The influence of Britain on the rest of the world is immense . |
| 13 | And already it holds the record in Britain for the inland stretch of water with the highest number of bird species in winter . |
| 14 | What 's the population in Britain at the moment ? |
| 15 | Superficially such a resolution might appear to have been no more than a minimum concession by the Federation in response to the seamen 's involvement in a wave of strikes by transport workers which had reverberated around the ports of Britain in the previous summer — an undertaking that it would withdraw its " ticket " if the union would do the same , so that neither side would attempt to control the supply of seamen and free labour disputes would cease . |
| 16 | Robert Thomson , the union 's Scottish secretary , said the three north-east parliamentary constituencies — Kincardine and Deeside , Gordon and Banff and Buchan — were among the top five throughout the whole of Britain with the fastest rising levels of unemployment . |
| 17 | His recital of the history of the archbishops ' exercise of authority over the whole of Britain over the centuries is punctuated by quotations from Gregory , proclaiming the claims of antiquity as a model for future conduct . |
| 18 | Immediately following the nationalisation of the coal-mines in Britain at the end of the Second World War a team of social scientists from the Tavistock Institute in London began an extensive series of studies of work organisation in that industry . |
| 19 | The selection of Britain as the venture 's base is a matter of prestige , says managing director Andy Szeliga , 36 ‘ In hi-fi , UK companies have a worldwide reputation . |
| 20 | The Minister knows of my concern about the attitude of this Government and previous Governments and that of the people of Britain towards the disabled . |
| 21 | One has only to think of the way in which the Shah of Persia reinforced his position by claiming direct descent from the Achaemenids of the third century BC , to give depth to a genealogy that in fact started with his father — a Cossack officer — assuming the throne in 1920 when the previous dynasty collapsed ( see Avery , 1965 ) ; or the use in Britain of the ‘ historical ’ roots of the Royal Family to support such current political structures as the House of Lords . |
| 22 | On the other hand , however , the absence of Britain from the new developments marked the beginning of a new and decisive phase in European integration . |
| 23 | The producer , who was himself about to take the reins of the tour as it moved on to the regions of Britain as the Coca Cola Hit Man roadshow with Sinitta , Sonia and others from his stable below Kylie on the bill , said plans to take her to a major stadia like Wembley had been quickly dismissed . |
| 24 | Ian Norrie began visiting the regions of Britain in the late '60s for the revised Mumby 's . |
| 25 | Laslett ( 1972a ) , for example , argues that the desire to believe that extended family households , and the relationships associated with them , were the norm in Britain in the past is a matter of ‘ family ideology ’ rather than ‘ family experience ’ . |
| 26 | In rather the same way the practice of giving hostages for the due execution of a treaty , quite common in the distrustful atmosphere of the sixteenth century , was last seen in operation in 1748 , when two British peers were sent to Paris as guarantees of the restitution by Britain of the conquests she had made in north America at the expense of France . |
| 27 | A book in similar vein was his edited volume Britain and the beast ( 1938 ) in which his assembled contributors reviled the symptoms of Britain in the modern age and offered a nostalgia for the past . |
| 28 | He campaigned for free education , and for the introduction into Britain of the metric system . |
| 29 | Floggings in the army , and more especially in the navy , were another integral feature of the moral landscape of the rulers of Britain in the 1860s . |
| 30 | The Quebec clause , giving Britain a veto over an American use of the atomic bomb against third parties , was dropped in exchange for the release of Britain from the clause restricting her commercial exploitation of atomic energy . |