Example sentences of "britain [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Milk quotas which deny Britain the opportunity to be self-sufficient in milk and dairy products are also a hindrance , as are FEOGA grants which accelerate the progress towards overcapacity .
2 Although the princess has returned to Britain the prince has stayed on in Hong Kong .
3 For example in Great Britain the percentage of the population aged 65 and over was 5 per cent in 1901 and 15 per cent in 1985 .
4 In Britain the principle of a hierarchy of urban roads , involving primary , district and local distributors , with residential access roads in the housing areas , has become generally accepted since the work of Buchanan .
5 But throughout Britain the system is one of commercial farming .
6 The reform was not carried through in the House but the phrenologists urged or reformers elsewhere and , indirectly , their enthusiasm led on to William Forster 's Education Bill of 1870 which established in Britain the system of elementary schools for all .
7 In modern Britain the State is generally acknowledged to have kept the peace and retained the allegiance of its citizens during a period of great social change .
8 Yet in Victorian Britain the alliance of wealth and birth formed in the public schools infused sport with a new idealism whilst simultaneously segregating the élite from members of the lower classes taking the same form of exercise .
9 In Britain the election of the first Thatcher government in 1979 heralded the beginning of an ambitious attempt to " roll back the state " by a true believer in private enterprise and market values .
10 In Britain the majority of people aspire to owning their own home and those who do acquire a certain position in society .
11 ( Rich 1986 ) In Britain the work of Claire Johnston and Pam Cook on Hollywood films by 1930s and 1940s women directors established an alternative brand of feminist writing on film , introducing criticism which drew on both Marxist theory of ideology ( especially Althusser ) and on French structuralism and semiotics ( Barthes , Levi-Strauss ) .
12 In Britain the work of E. Ray Lankester illustrates the strength of evolutionary morphology in the 1870s and 1880s .
13 This study compares the experience of Britain and Italy because whereas in Britain the expansion of higher education has been relatively tightly controlled and graduate unemployment has rarely if ever reached serious proportions , Italy is regarded as the classic case of uncontrolled enrolments leading to chronic overproduction of graduates even in the most vocational subjects .
14 Steve Harris , a director who joined Medeva soon after Taylor , had experience of OTC and explained to Chemistry in Britain the rationale for this decision .
15 In Britain the attitude remains the same but the Dupatta is not quite so essential .
16 Typically , in the wake of the uprisings of 1985 in Britain the government announced the advent of a new policy measure , the introduction of eight Inner City Task Forces to Moss Side ( Manchester ) , Chapeltown ( Leeds ) , Notting Hill ( London ) , North Peckham ( London ) , North Central ( Middlesbrough ) , Highfields ( Leicester ) , St Paul 's ( Bristol ) and Handsworth ( Birmingham ) .
17 In Great Britain the government 's control system is the prescription pricing regulation scheme , a voluntary agreement between the industry and the government that agrees profitability on NHS business .
18 In Britain the government has allowed tax relief for child care provided by employers , to encourage women to return to the work-force to compensate for the missing teenagers of the 1990s ( Chapter 13 ) .
19 Less than six weeks before the start of sweeping reforms to community care in Britain the government 's policy on mental health care is getting an increasingly bad press .
20 She fled to Britain the day Hitler entered Vienna in 1938 .
21 The Labour Party leadership also felt that the British people were not , as yet , ready for war : ‘ In Great Britain the position was that no Government would be able to secure public support for any action which the people believed would lead to war . ’
22 In Britain the position was somewhat similar .
23 I feel like in Britain the kind of history that I came into as an eighteen year old was a women 's liberation movement whose context was anti-Vietnam , the counter culture , Vietnam solidarity , American radical feminism , irony of all ironies the Ford women 's strike , and here I was living with this Ford worker , domestic tyrant .
24 In Britain the idea of openly partisan broadcasting was pioneered by the Scottish Nationalists ' clandestine and illegal Radio Free Scotland in the 1960s and more recently by Southern Sound , who used a discarded former commercial radio band to set up their entirely open and legal Conference Radio FM to cover the 1990 Conservative Party Conference from an unashamedly pro-Conservative viewpoint .
25 So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses .
26 In Britain the development of informal , workplace-level bargaining and shopfloor activism since the 1950s led to some ( although by no means universal ) decentralisation of union government in some of the public service unions for instance but , most notably , in the Transport and General Workers Union ( TGWU ) .
27 IN Britain the development of the railways followed the Industrial Revolution , accelerated its impact , and pressed it forward into a new phase .
28 ‘ KNOCK FOR KNOCK ’ AGREEMENT relating to claims arising out of accidents occurring anywhere in the world ( including claims where either insurance covers Third Party risks alone except under Clause 3 hereof ) under Policies ( the Agreement itself is NOT restricted to Motor Policies except where specified ) issued by the parties hereto in Great Britain the whole of Ireland the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man .
29 In Britain the equivalent is 3–4% ( itself a smaller proportion than in the 1960s ) .
30 It was the plane considered to have given Britain the edge at the Battle of Britain .
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