Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] television " in BNC.
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| 1 | We told that we had to do some preliminary research for possible television programmes . |
| 2 | Two toastracks , 165 and 166 were used as mobile television studios for televising the Lights , while 163 was rebuilt as the Blackpool Belle illuminated car in 1959 . |
| 3 | Poltoranin 's deputy , Mikhail Fedotov , became the new Press and Information Minister , but his brief was to be limited to registering and licensing new media and promoting freedom of speech , while Poltoranin was to be responsible for state-owned television and the press . |
| 4 | If Mrs Ebyth Morton ( Points of View , today ) was disappointed at the failure to show clips from the France-Scotland match in the BBC television news last Saturday , I wonder what she would have thought about Scottish Television 's choice on Sunday : ‘ 2:30 Scotsport . |
| 5 | For British television drama , for instance , and for American television drama till the mid-fifties , a particular combination of live studio technology and a respect for theatrical naturalism placed time and space more at the service of performance than of narrative logic , seeking a continuity — rather than an interruptability — of time and space in which the actor could unfold the truth of the performance , or , more practically , in which mistakes on the studio floor could be minimized . |
| 6 | Michele Roberts having seen her fifth novel In the Red Kitchen published in 1990 is currently working on a screenplay for French television and on a new novel . |
| 7 | The PBAA has been lobbying the government for public television for over ten years and is looking forward to contributing to this inquiry process . |
| 8 | The supreme irony is that Thorn EMI has issued a video tape of Monty Python film sequences ( apparently identical to those locked by dispute in the BBC 's vaults ) , shot for German television and owned by the Monty Python team ! |
| 9 | Fredric Jameson , in his article ‘ Postmodernism and the video-text ’ , comments that experimental video may , provide a useful vantage point from which to think about commercial television : |
| 10 | In that sense , thinking anything adequate about commercial television may well involve ignoring it and thinking about something else : in ( this ) instance , experimental video … . |
| 11 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 12 | At the same time the audience pattern for highbrow television news seems more in keeping with the Public Service Ideal : reaching out to the interested public irrespective of social background . |
| 13 | In 1990 Jesse Helms defeated a black opponent in a Senate race in North Carolina after running television commercials showing imaginary whites being rejected for jobs because affirmative action had given those jobs to blacks . |
| 14 | PRESS GANG ( produced by Richmond Films for Central Television ) was honoured with both a Royal Television Society Award and a British Academy Award in 1991 . |
| 15 | It may not have shown on screen , but January 1st marked the beginning of a new era for Central Television . |
| 16 | A Conversation about Contemporary Television |
| 17 | The opportunity was also taken to exchange gifts — so watch out for those Royal Bank of Scotland umbrellas on the streets of Kiev during future television news reports . |
| 18 | In some ways , although this mirrors the current NTSC , PAL and SECAM situation for ordinary television , it is surprising that while global standards are an intense concern in multimedia development , the same is not true for HDTV . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the recent allocation of regional television franchises by the Independent Television Commission . |
| 20 | Curiously , I have become even more strongly persuaded of that since I began dabbling in the making of political television programmes . |
| 21 | The notion of balance , for example , was too narrow to explore divergent opinions and subtleties : it necessarily divided and exaggerated differences for the sake of political television . |
| 22 | Then they will be expected to turn out in the afternoon heat to suit the peak viewing times of European television viewers . |
| 23 | The total time of lesbian and gay representation as a percentage of total television output was 3.38 per cent , plummeting to 0.32 per cent on radio . |
| 24 | Lesbian representation accounted for just 0.06 per cent of total television and radio output — 25 minutes out of 688 hours of broadcasting . |
| 25 | The chairman was Lord Renwick ( of Associated Television ) and the Chief Executive Director was to be Geoffrey Pardoe , the Project Manager of the just-cancelled Blue Streak rocket . |
| 26 | A string of distinguished television current-affairs programmes are dismissed as being soft on criminals and terrorists ; TV programme-makers turn out to be pretentious , corrupt , cynical and generally ‘ nauseating … these saintly people , living off the fat of the land , try to kid you that they are guardians of the common weal ! ’ |
| 27 | He claims he had to develop such a style for his latest role , as the couch potato host of TV Hell , last month 's one-night-stand featuring some of the classically bad moments of popular television . |
| 28 | The station was the product of French television deregulation five years ago , but it never established the audience size or advertising to sustain its costs and the debt that its owners had taken on to launch it . |
| 29 | Under the Fifth Republic , control of broadcasting ( most of sound radio and all one then two channels of French television ) served Gaullist direct democracy : a President elected by universal suffrage ( and not — as before 1962 — by Parliamentarians ) and other ‘ notables ’ ( and periodic recourse to referenda weakened a Parliament where , in any event , governments appointed by the General commanded a majority ) |
| 30 | THE Broadcasting Bill , which will radically reshape the face of commercial television and radio , was published yesterday amid criticism that standards would be threatened . |