Example sentences of "the [noun] of british " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edited by Patricia Scanlon , it aims to catalogue the activities of British Surrealism and place the movement within its wider European context . |
| 2 | Fiegehen and Reddaway concluded : ‘ it is clear that , in total , any disincentive effects that operated on senior managers had a minimal impact on the activities of British industry ’ . |
| 3 | So long as Britain remained the leading industrial force , it was relatively easy to reconcile moral purpose with the defence of British power . |
| 4 | To understand the UK economy and the restructuring of Britain that has been occurring we have to consider not only the response of British industry to changes in the world economy , but the character of those global changes themselves and the forces that have produced them . |
| 5 | Improved bus services with co-ordinated timetables were widely suggested in the 1976 Green Paper on Transport Policy and in the response of British Railways ' Board to this , Opportunity for Change . |
| 6 | The response of British farmers to this development was to turn increasingly to specialization — dairy farming , market gardening , poultry and fruit farming . |
| 7 | A particular additional focus will be the response of British doctors working in China to the theory and practice of Chinese traditional medicine . |
| 8 | The majority of British people do not find universities attractive or accessible . |
| 9 | John and Elizabeth Newson , authors of a report into the extent of parental punishment in the UK published yesterday , say : ‘ The majority of British parents interviewed seems to believe that physical punishment is an inevitable and probably necessary aspect of ordinary child upbringing . ’ |
| 10 | on balance credit is beneficial , since it makes a useful contribution to the living standards and the economic and social well-being of the majority of British people . |
| 11 | ‘ Ethnic communities are reproducing a culture which the majority of British people have n't yet accepted as part of the British landscape , ’ says Dr Tariq Madood , a fellow at Nuffield College currently writing on the changing character of racism . |
| 12 | Jim , along with singing partner Pete Lofty , drummer Chris Scott and bassist Dave Chary , grew tired of the make-it-big-quick policy adopted by the majority of British indie labels . |
| 13 | The majority of British coals have ash fusion temperatures too low for use on the Snowdon locomotives . |
| 14 | To the majority of British people , the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth 's ascendancy to the throne , on 5 June 1977 , offered a brief respite from the prevailing air of national gloom , a rare opportunity for celebration in a Britain beset with economic and social uncertainties . |
| 15 | My suspicion is that the male committees which control the majority of British golf clubs deliberately keep ladies ' subscriptions lower than men 's in order to have the excuse to maintain the inequality . |
| 16 | Attempts have been made to explain this grading , which is not characteristic of the majority of British spits . |
| 17 | What is more , my right hon. Friend 's position in Maastricht has the support of the Confederation of British Industry and of the majority of British industry which recognises the increasing burdens that the charter could impose on it , which would damage our competitiveness in relation to countries outside the Community which are not so burdened . |
| 18 | The majority of British universities now send copies of their theses to the British Library ( BLDSC ) for microfilming . |
| 19 | The majority of British undergraduate students have their fees paid in full by a grant-giving body , and many also receive a cash grant . |
| 20 | Despite the fall in the average rate of pocket money , the majority of British teenagers still manage to save all or most of their money . |
| 21 | His chief officers formed a board which had a very considerable measure of authority to determine its own ways ( witness , for example , the Western Region 's adventure with diesel-hydraulic locomotives when the remainder of British Railways was following the diesel-electric path , or the Eastern Region 's policy of civil engineering for speed ) . |
| 22 | They believe that personal ‘ gaffer-to-man ’ contact has been responsible for removing much of the industrial conflict which they regard as plaguing the remainder of British industry . |
| 23 | The extent to which the British legislation against the transfer of technology was implemented or effectual is analysed , together with the attitudes of British industrialists to the laws . |
| 24 | The reduction of British troops on the Continent was within the competence of the British Government : cutting back overseas garrisons was not so amenable to arbitrary decisions in Whitehall . |
| 25 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 26 | as if they knew that the problem was not resolved a letter arrived yesterday from the headquarters of British Bakeries . |
| 27 | GRAFFITI lines the walls near Regeneration House , the headquarters of British Rail 's King 's Cross Project : ‘ The DPP was here . ’ |
| 28 | It 's being held in the town that claims it 's the birthplace of British ballooning . |
| 29 | PRINCE Michael of Kent has attacked plans to build a car park on an historic aviation site and the birthplace of British motor sport . |
| 30 | Prince 's plea : Prince Michael of Kent has launched an attack on plans to build a car park at Brooklands in Surrey an historic aviation site and the birthplace of British motor sport . |