Example sentences of "which [art] british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Empire which the British Navy defended , and which made Britain an Asiatic power , or a world power , or indeed a power at all , was not the few million kith and kin living in North America or in Australasia or mingling with the Dutch in South Africa . |
| 2 | Much of this work will be discussed in Chapter 8 when we will be dealing with the way in which the British state has handled the economy . |
| 3 | But it also has to provide the means by which a modern society provides houses and gardens — which the British love — where once they huddled in two-up-two-downs and the spec-built terraces which pre-dated the loathed Sixties ‘ slums in the skies ’ . |
| 4 | His decisions and negotiations with the government shaped the manner in which the British Crown extended its control over both the Company and its Indian possessions , a process which culminated in the passing of the Regulating Act of 1773 . |
| 5 | Only radiocarbon and thermoluminescence , the techniques which the British Museum has ‘ in house ’ , will be discussed in any detail . |
| 6 | The other part of the gallery traces the development of the three great religions of India Buddhism , Hinduism and Jainism largely through sculpture , in which the British Museum is particularly strong . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Labour Party quite clearly underestimated the extent to which the British public was horrified by the rise of fascism in Spain . |
| 9 | Given the extent to which the British public supported Republican Spain , why was it that the National government kept to its policy of non-intervention ? |
| 10 | Yet the media offer the major — if not only — means by which the British public can understand more about mental handicap . |
| 11 | That is a major anomaly which the British Parliament has accepted because it has no alternative . |
| 12 | It suffered its next severe blow in 1968 , when it was left on the shelf after a round of mergers from which the British banking industry emerged in the state it remained in until this year . |
| 13 | remain while police management retain their commitment to improving community relations , which the British government will ensure they do . |
| 14 | Her differences with other Commonwealth states over economic sanctions in South Africa did not prevent collaboration with them on other issues , notably in maintaining a boycott of cultural and sporting links with South Africa under the Gleneagles agreement , which the British government faithfully observed . |
| 15 | In addition — and this is a concession which the British Government refuses to grant — tax relief is available against the costs of repairing and maintaining historic houses . |
| 16 | In post-emancipation international appeals on the slave trade and foreign slavery , issues over which the British government had little , and British abolitionists no direct leverage , circulations were either in the form of general pieties to political leaders signed by such venerable reformers as Clarkson or Christian appeals from antislavery corporate religious bodies to similar organisations , particularly in the 1830s and 1840s to the United States . |
| 17 | The subsidiarity principle ( taking decisions at the lowest practicable level of government ) , which the British government makes much of , is drafted in a form so soft that it will cut both ways if it cuts at all . |
| 18 | Yet in 1982 , Lloyd 's won exemption from the Financial Services Act by which the British government sought to protect ordinary people from financial charlatans , accepting instead that Lloyd 's should regulate itself ( which it has failed to do ) . |
| 19 | This in an ordinary way would not have mattered , but it mattered in this particular case and mattered quite fatally , because at various stages of the discussion , when we seemed to be reaching an agreement , I pressed Mr Smith about whether there was any likelihood , whatever the agreement was , that it would be acceptable to the entire population of Rhodesia , which the British government had laid down as a precondition . |
| 20 | It has a brief dubbed ‘ The Sale of the Century ’ , in which the British Government is one of the major investors . |
| 21 | Matters such as the hon. Gentleman raised can be dealt with at present under the social dimension to which the British Government subscribe and against which the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) voted . |
| 22 | That is in areas in which the British Government have an environmental programme in conjunction with the Brazilian authorities . |
| 23 | The treaty provides for the possibility that member states will wish to adopt a single currency later this decade , but they can do so only if they meet strict convergence conditions — conditions for which the British Government have pressed from the outset . |
| 24 | Now what I 'd like to do this afternoon in the short time that we have is to outline some of the ways in which the British government is helping to meet the challenges of under development . |
| 25 | The screenplay , by local writer Ronan Bennett , includes a scenario in which the British Government agrees to talks with Sinn Fein leaders . |
| 26 | The starting-point in the chapter is the ideal to which the British system of government is presumed to correspond , in which policy making is seen as the responsibility of our representatives in Parliament , who answer to the people at the general election for their stewardship of the public interest . |
| 27 | Indeed he agreed that a great deal of hypocrisy had been involved in what Macaulay had called one of the ‘ fits of morality ’ to which the British nation was periodically subject . |
| 28 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the interests of my coal mining constituents would best be served by long-term contracts with the generators , which the British coal industry is well placed to secure and which the generators should welcome , and not by market rigging by Labour politicians posing as experts ? |
| 29 | Gender is a key source of variation as is ethnicity , which cross-cuts gender because ideas about men 's and women 's roles in the family do vary among the ethnically diverse groups of which the British population is now composed ( Anthias and Yuval-Davies , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | Professor Fox has recently emphasised the importance of an early development for the later history of British trade unionism : " The artisan-craft tradition by which the British trade union movement more than any other was deeply marked is a pre-industrial and pre-capitalist tradition . " |