Example sentences of "scotland [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our understanding is that the Scottish Office brief is far wider than to look only at the promotion of Scotland as a destination . |
| 2 | He even had a ready made foundation for the new bank — the Equivalent Company set up to administer the money and debentures paid to Scotland as a compensation for some pre-Union perfidy on the part on the English . |
| 3 | Thus in 1296 he consulted his council of magnates who advised him that a certain papal provision would prejudice the crown ; and in 1299 he contested the pope 's claim to sovereignty over Scotland as a threat to the dignity of his crown . |
| 4 | He entered the ministry of the Church of Scotland as a licentiate at New Street church , Edinburgh . |
| 5 | Later he was ordained by the Church of Scotland as a minister to the deaf . |
| 6 | Open Access is produced by the National Library of Scotland as a medium for the exchange of information among employees . |
| 7 | He went to Scotland as a gentleman pensioner to King Charles I in that year and was knighted by the king . |
| 8 | Although he had left his native Scotland as a boy his voice still contained traces of his Celtic background . |
| 9 | The emergence of Scotland as a lineout side meant that they could play a different sort of game , and this abundance of possession has enabled Craig Chalmers to play some very assured football . |
| 10 | Two others , Alice and Margaret Blaikie , presented his Jacobite pamphlets and MSS to the National Library of Scotland as a memorial after his death in an Edinburgh nursing home 3 May 1928 . |
| 11 | This broad framework , and more especially the premises to enable such gatherings to be facilitated , seem to be absent in Scotland as a whole , and within the context of the Highlands in particular . |
| 12 | What percentage of the people in Scotland as a whole are ( i ) non-workers ( roughly over 60 and under 15 years old ) ; ( ii ) workers ( 16 60 years old ) ? |
| 13 | However there is little activity in this line in Aberdeen particularly and Scotland as a whole as far as I know . |
| 14 | In the aftermath the Border needed time to breathe and recuperate , and while religious civil war threatened Scotland as a whole , the far from religious reivers bided their time . |
| 15 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 16 | In another case , Department of Employment data for the Western Isles of Scotland showed only 26.4 per cent of the population in employment , compared to 42 per cent for Scotland as a whole , and clearly this discrepancy is largely due to the definitional problems outlined above . |
| 17 | Table 2 offers a comparison of Grampian exports with the equivalent totals for Scotland as a whole . |
| 18 | However , this feature is even more evident in Grampian where 65% of exports are destined for the European Community , compared with 58% for Scotland as a whole . |
| 19 | The contribution of the primary sector is likely to be of greater relative importance in these regions than in Scotland as a whole . |
| 20 | This is very good news for Glasgow , for Scotland as a whole , and for all the companies involved throughout the country . |
| 21 | This study examines the nature of social and economic change within Edinburgh in this crucial period and relates it to wider developments in Scotland as a whole . |
| 22 | Railway development will be placed within a broader context with assessment being made of its impact on financial institutions , on industrial expansion , on social change , and on the economy of Scotland as a whole . |
| 23 | No one technique could possibly give results which would characterise Scotland as a whole . |
| 24 | It stands at 5.2 per cent , compared with 10 per cent for Scotland as a whole . |
| 25 | That , Mr Sampson said , gave rise for concern with a 15.7 per cent increase during the year , which compares with a 14 per cent rise for Scotland as a whole . |
| 26 | Mrs Davidson , of Stirling , said that so many people had contacted them that the association 's annual meeting had decided the only way to raise its profile and make a difference for patients was to set up a body covering Scotland as a whole . |
| 27 | Antoinette would therefore have hardly rated queenship of Scotland as a matter of much importance . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) described our valuation arrangements for Scotland as a recipe for disaster . |
| 29 | James and his immediate circle had always regarded Scotland as a sideshow and while Mar , Mackintosh and Forster were engaging in their bloodless manoeuvring in the north , he had despatched the Duke of Ormonde [ or Ormond ] to make another attempt in the south-west . |
| 30 | His electrifying speed earned him seven international caps for Scotland as a wing three-quarter . |