Example sentences of "scotland in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Anne Gibson has won a singles medal for Scotland in the championships — a bronze in 1987 — and McEwan , just 17 , has an outside chance of repeating that . |
| 2 | First , she made a free gift of Scotland , and her claim to England , to the French king , should she die without issue ; second , she put her country in pawn , for the money spent by France in defending it and educating her ; and third , she negated in advance any agreement between her and the Scottish Estates which ran counter to her disposal of Scotland in the interests of France . |
| 3 | We are talking about a spectacular slide in support for Conservatism in Scotland , which has taken the Tories from the high point of being the majority party in Scotland in the mid-1950s to the point today when they are on the edge of extinction as a serious and significant force in Scotland . |
| 4 | Next to the thistle , the insignia which represents the spirit of Scotland in the minds of many foreigners who are potential visitors are the grouse , the red deer and the salmon . |
| 5 | The unpopularity of the rates , very evident in Scotland in the mid-1980s , led the government to adopt the poll tax or community charge . |
| 6 | More serious , probably , was the extensive deforestation carried out by neolithic farmers from around 8000 BC onwards : a deforestation which , for example , denuded Scotland in the centuries before the Romans came . |