Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [art] british " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the subject of historical studies , and the heroine of romantic fiction , Mary Queen of Scots has a massive lead over all other earthly Maries , only the Virgin scoring more heavily — as even the most cursory glance at the British Library Catalogue of Printed Books makes clear . |
| 2 | A NORTH Belfast student has come home from her first attempt at the British Long Distance Swimming Championships with a medal . |
| 3 | In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee . |
| 4 | In Paris he bought mince pies and English marmalade , took Colette to tea at the British Dairy , shared a blazing plum pudding with her at Christmas , drank whisky instead of wine at a dinner party at Fouquet 's , spent two summer holidays in Dieppe because it was so English , and there made friends with Walter Sickert , William Nicholson , Reggie Turner , Ada Leverson , Marie Tempest and Max Beerbohm . |
| 5 | At the same time in February 1947 American intelligence spokesmen told the assistant military adviser at the British mission in Tokyo that the communist threat had subsided since November and that the main threat to public order came from rightists . |
| 6 | SHOT-PUTTER Craig Watson has admitted testing positive for Clenbuterol at the British Athletics Championships in June . |
| 7 | The squad for the defence of the Tyrone Crystal Trophy at the British Universities Sports Federation 's annual championship in Jordanstown , Northern Ireland ( 29-31 March ) has been named . |
| 8 | Harmer 's reputation in the University Museum led to his appointment as keeper of zoology at the British Museum ( Natural History ) in 1907 and in 1919 to the position of director . |
| 9 | This quartet became the driving force at the British end of the project . |
| 10 | A security guard at a British Gas depot in Wakefield , West Yorkshire , was kidnapped by a gunman and made to drive him about 40 miles , it was disclosed . |
| 11 | Sean Hick , 31 , and Paul Hughes , 28 , were accused of the murder of Major Michael Dillon-Lee in Dortmund on June 2 , 1990 , and the attempted murder of a guard at the British Army 's Langenhagen Barracks , near Hanover , on May 4 , 1990 . |
| 12 | Major will spend tomorrow morning on Capitol Hill in discussion with party leaders and have lunch at the British Embassy with further US movers and shakers , including the head of the Central Intelligence Agency . |
| 13 | If you would like more information about the Urgent Action network , please write to the Urgent Action Co-ordinator at the British Section office . |
| 14 | — Frankie Taylor to the guest of honour at the British Boxing Writers ' Club annual dinner . |
| 15 | ULRIKA Jonsson make a spectacle of herself when she flashed her glasses , a smile and a thigh at the British Comedy Awards . |
| 16 | Then the welcome at the British Embassy , the flight back to England , the smiles and the cheering and the medals , the pressing of Button A in the telephone box : ‘ Hullo , I 'm back . ’ |
| 17 | Nadeem , 16 , of Saltersgill , Middlesbrough , competed in the Northern team at the British Sports Association for the Disabled championships in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 18 | He tried to get a post at the British Museum , and was most indignant when it went to George Children , a friend of Davy and thus possessing superior patronage . |
| 19 | Sponsored by the Royal Mint and organised by the British Art Medal Society , around 350 delegates attended the conference at the British Museum which concentrated primarily on the theme of the relationship between medals and drawings . |
| 20 | The winner of this year 's Avia Foursomes and the amateur medal at the British Women 's Open at Ferndown , the undeniably gifted Cheshire golfer was distressed to find that she was no better placed than second reserve for England in the Home Internationals and , further , that she was not given a place on the " B " team sent to Italy . |
| 21 | The RSC 's Belgium Group held its first demonstration lecture at the British School of Brussels , Tervuren , in November . |
| 22 | In the meantime , my evenings were spent at art and etching classes and Saturday afternoons in the Print Room at the British Museum , in the days of Campbell Dodgson , Professor Hind and Laurence Binyon . |
| 23 | I was on the downhill slope of a new novel and needed to visit the Reading Room at the British Museum most days . |
| 24 | only two weeks ago , I actually saw er elephants chained up by their legs , in a marquee at a British circus . |
| 25 | This is expected to be particularly revealing as Mr Camber , a curator at the British Museum before he went to work for Sotheby 's , heard about the hoard from an ex-colleague and became involved in negotiations over it in Switzerland some time before Lord Northampton , presenting himself as the single owner of the treasure , first approached Sotheby 's in 1988 with a view to selling . |
| 26 | NEAL Bassett , 15 , from Badwell Ash won the under-16 title at the British Kyokushinkai Karate Association 's national championships at Ilantrisant in Wales . |
| 27 | The drawings represent a selection of the museum 's outstanding holdings which were shown in a larger exhibition of the same title at the British Museum in 1986 . |
| 28 | Top British skiers Martin and Graham Bell suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of novice Macclesfield-born Gavin Forsyth in the downhill event at the British national championships in Tignes , France , yesterday . |
| 29 | The new funds will be used to improve transport , including the purchase of two more aircraft and a small trawler and building a hard runway at the British Rothera base on the Graham Land Peninsula . |
| 30 | When he met Lord Suffolk — officially the science attache at the British Embassy — the delight increased . |