Example sentences of "[art] british and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But alike in the British and the American traditions the expectation that the poet would have a message was so ingrained that even by those readers most alert to and informed about Eliot 's French connections The Waste Land was still thought to deliver an urgent signal — usually about the bankruptcy of the European , or the Western , cultural and civic traditions . |
| 2 | The British and the US governments have asked for similar concessions from Mr de Klerk .. |
| 3 | In the Far East , the future of Hong Kong , an immensely important financial and manufacturing centre , where the British lease was due to run out in 1997 , was left in abeyance by both the British and the Chinese governments , in the post-Mao era . |
| 4 | Two crash programmes in December and January have boosted production of 81mm mortar bombs for both the British and the American forces — and the British design has been adapted to make it fit the slightly different mortar used by the Americans . |
| 5 | We are twelve miles from the border agreed to in 1925 between the British and the Irish . |
| 6 | French grandiose schemes for the crossing of the Sahara came to nothing , but several lines from the coast to the interior of West Africa were built by the British and the French . |
| 7 | During the Second World War the King of Saudi Arabia , Abdul Aziz , managed to convince both the British and the Germans that he was on their side . |
| 8 | The film — a propaganda film for the UK Central Office of Information to be shown abroad — was about our maritime traditions , the character of the British and the sea , or ‘ Sailing Brits ’ as it said on the clapper board . |
| 9 | They turned increasingly to those areas where the British and the French had not made much progress : to the Balkans , Turkey and South America . |
| 10 | In the British and the American cases it is as necessary to contextualise the production of knowledges about the inner city as it is to unpack the glossary of terms of urban regeneration used in contemporary political discourse . |
| 11 | It is difficult to assess the significance of the various negotiations which went on between the British and the Indians during the early stages of the war . |
| 12 | The British and the Germans will get the bulk of the work , but the Italians and the Spanish will also be involved . |
| 13 | The rules that the British and the maharajas had created to protect their sport were seen as an evil of colonialism . |
| 14 | Maybe it also high-lighted the difference between the British and the American temperament , Tweed reflected . |
| 15 | By the 1740s the Moghul central government had grown too weak to impose peace on Europeans , in the 1750s the British and the French took an important role in struggles among Indians , and by 1763 the British had made themselves rulers of one of the most important regions of India , though they had not yet worked out a legal form to express the new reality in India . |
| 16 | There were red tanks for the Iraqis , green for Saudi Arabia , blue for the French , yellow for the British and the Americans . |
| 17 | The JCS were already on record that the US should assume ‘ positive and proper leadership ’ among the Western powers in Southeast Asia in order , as they put it , with no excessive modesty , ‘ to retrieve the losses resulting from previous mistakes on the part of the British and the French , as well as to preclude such mistakes in the future . ’ |
| 18 | Already relations between the British and the Dutch were those of mutual incomprehension . |
| 19 | We in Canada have always lived with the imperialism of both the British and the Americans . |
| 20 | It is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the link programme , but we believe it has helped to broaden the perspective of both the British and the Brazilian participants . |
| 21 | He does not deign to compare the British and the French railways . |
| 22 | The British and the French governments have already started talking , out loud and to each other , about the possible ingredients of a peace process . |
| 23 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 24 | Others say no — for this time it is the British and the Americans who are throwing him out . |
| 25 | After all , it was the British and the Russians who had dominated Iran through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries . |
| 26 | The most powerful forces in the land were the British and the Russians . |
| 27 | By 1917 the British and the Russians between them occupied most of Iran . |
| 28 | The Nazis had assiduously courted Reza Shah , exploiting his desire to see Iran become more independent of both the British and the Russians . |
| 29 | In July 1941 the British and the Russians demanded the expulsion of all German agents and influence . |
| 30 | In August 1941 the British and the Russians invaded Iran . |