Example sentences of "scotland which " in BNC.

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1 The most advanced is a plan for five in the north of Scotland which will be funded by the Highlands and Islands Development Board and British Telecom .
2 But even so , there was not what could be described as an irrevocable Protestant march towards Reformation ; the new activity of 1558 took place in a Scotland which was still largely Catholic .
3 She might well have done so ; it was , after all , a Catholic Scotland which was to be so closely allied with France .
4 Supporters of devolution point to the differences inherent in the administration of Scotland which would assist a more independently-run nation .
5 He resisted the frightened calls to throw sops of self-government to the Scots , and was rewarded with an increase in seats and votes in Scotland which no one had dared imagine .
6 The name of the green-eyed demon cat of Scotland which would materialise as part of the occult ceremony called Taghairn .
7 All the other senior royals — including the Queen , Prince Philip , Prince Charles and Princess Diana — have official engagements in Scotland which will allow them to attend .
8 Guinness is closing five distilleries at United Distillers in Scotland which will result in 700 redundancies .
9 The presentation , however , was resisted by Lord Selkirk , who had been ‘ importuned with letters from Scotland which jumble him ’ .
10 The apparent paucity of copper may result from the emplacement of relatively anhydrous granites into tectonised and anhydrous metasediments , especially in the Dalradian and Moinian sediments of Scotland which were metamorphosed during the Ordovician Grampian orogeny and the later Caledonian event .
11 Nevertheless , there is a long tradition of general education in higher education there ( which suggests that it is England rather than Scotland which is atypical in this respect ) .
12 perhaps we have to look at the societal thing in that there 's something very macho seen as macho about football in Scotland which is stand on the terraces with a short sleeve shirt in zero degrees and having someone urinate down your leg and
13 This last criterion was applied in the Charter Consolidated Ltd/Anderson Strathclyde Ltd Report ( 1982 ) , where the concern was for the effects of the merger on employment in an area of Scotland which already had high unemployment .
14 Time and again we have put down the markers and placed on record that we would regard it as a perfectly reasonable alternative to what exists now if there were a series of companies throughout Scotland which represented the ownership of those at present employed by the Scottish Bus Group under the same conditions as at present and with the same commitment to the current level of services .
15 The Branch was opened by The National Bank of Scotland which was keen to get a foothold in the thriving Borders region .
16 Books of old photographs are always fascinating , and there are several examples to be found in the shop , including Thomas Begbie 's Edinburgh , a photographic portrait of the city in mid-Victorian times , and To see Oursels , a striking portrayal of a rural Scotland which has now all but disappeared , and which draws on the unrivalled collections of the National Museum of Scotland 's Ethnological Archive .
17 This group includes Heads of Departments or Section Heads from every college in Scotland which offers non-advanced programmes or courses in catering studies .
18 There are many quality initiatives already under way in Scotland which are proving effective at local level .
19 This is despite recent research in Scotland which shows a substantial increase in smokers between the ages of 11 to 15 .
20 Fortunately , in my recent meeting with Peter Gordon , in discussing the criticism which the report had drawn from certain sectors , he mentioned that a second report is being prepared for Scotland which is to be launched next June .
21 I have been led to believe that you act as Public Relations Advisor to certain landowners within Highland Region , and should value an opportunity to discuss with you , initially very informally , certain projects for the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland which which I am involved , if this is in fact the case ?
22 Will the Minister consider holding a meeting with representatives of Hydro-power , which serves the most isolated communities in Scotland which are subjected regularly to the most severe weather conditions ?
23 Is it likely that the changes and related developments will lead the Ministry of Defence to release land in Scotland which it presently owns and leases for training purposes ?
24 I say without qualification that home rule without proportional representation would not be home rule at all , and I would not support any measure to bring devolved government to Scotland which did not have PR as its centrepiece , for , however desirable it would be to create a Parliament in Edinburgh , to create one as unfair and undemocratic as that which we have here would be a betrayal of the people of Scotland .
25 It is the only undergraduate degree in Scotland which qualifies for full exemption from the professional examinations of the Institute of Housing .
26 There is a major source for the history of the environment in Scotland which would perhaps be linked with other archives when the ‘ green ’ generation writes the history of the ‘ greenhouse ’ world .
27 This arrangement does not apply to Scotland which has the highest average wind speeds in Europe .
28 The Glasgow " rent strikes " of 1916 , the engineers ' strikes led by the Clyde Workers Committee and the political agitations of John Maclean marked a growing radicalism in Scotland which was largely outside established parties , although it was a major factor in the electoral sweep of Glasgow seats for Labour and the ILP in 1922 .
29 Holme Pierrepoint … which has a man made whitewater course … is the only place guaranteed to wash you away although there are rivers in Wales and Scotland which are being used when the water 's running high …
30 On Friday Ireland were whitewashed 5-0 by England and , on Saturday , they slumped to a 4-2 defeat against Scotland which left them needing to beat Wales yesterday to avoid bottom place .
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