Example sentences of "of british [noun] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Without writers there could be no new ideas about what cinema could do , and without new ideas there could be no sense of British cinema having a purpose .
2 The planning of British cities entered a new phase as a consequence .
3 Indeed there is some evidence that only with the Argentine invasion of the Falklands and the deaths of British servicemen did the ‘ Fortress Falklands ’ policy emerge .
4 The sanitized , simplified , view of the world offered in films like this anticipates later television styles , and mark the beginning of the closedown of any willingness on the part of British filmmakers to confront the difficulties of contemporary life .
5 She was a founder member , the only woman from another Swiss woman artist , Mary Moser , of the Royal Academy which was established in 1768 in order to advance the professional careers and inspire the ambition of British artists to emulate the Italian artists of the Renaissance in the recreation of the Grand Style .
6 Public attention was galvanized by a publicity gambit from the American distributors of The Phantom of the Opera , who persuaded a brigade of British soldiers to escort the print from Southampton to London .
7 However , I have been informed that some , even most , regions of British Telecom disregard the instruction .
8 In JOURNEY 'S END a small group of British Officers have no choice but to do their duty in France in 1918 .
9 To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he next plans to meet the chairman of British Rail to discuss the Chelmsford-Liverpool Street line .
10 To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will meet the chairman of British Rail to discuss the western region .
11 THE STORY of British incompetence wasting the flower of ANZAC youth on a Dardanelles beach , this was one of two great war flicks to come out of the late '70s/early '80s Australian movie boom ( the ‘ Nam-set The Odd Angry Shot was the other ) .
12 THIS MAY or may not turn out to be the winter when serious numbers of British skiiers forsake the Alps for the Rockies .
13 BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them .
14 In his book Gotcha ! — The Media , The Government And The Falklands Crisis , Robert Harris noted the dismay of Ministry of Defence officials at the readiness of British tv to report the enemy 's view of the war , even using Argentine footage .
15 My belief is that our good practice has evolved over a period of more than 50 years and that it has developed in classrooms through the dedicated expertise of British teachers enjoying the relative freedom traditionally allowed within our education system .
16 Only 12 per cent of British managers have a first degree .
17 In Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate [ 1965 ] AC 75 , HL , the company was successful in its claim for compensation against the Crown for the destruction of its installations in Burma during the Second World War , the destruction having been ordered by the commander of British forces to prevent the installations falling into the hands of the advancing Japanese forces .
18 At the core of the conservative-historical position is the suggestion that the constitution of British society underwent a radical transformation in the 1950s and 1960s , and that this transformation included a significant alteration in the society 's moral code .
19 The evolution of British law governing the moral and physical welfare of children exemplifies this confusion .
20 The General Council of British Shipping quotes a survey as reporting that those ships which had been found to use the Minches route had done so only because of poor weather conditions .
21 The chairman of British Gas gets a 17pc pay rise while the small gas users are being hammered for a full standing charge even if they use only one unit per quarter .
22 The regulation of British Gas followed the general principles laid down for BT two years earlier , so it will suffice to concentrate on the latter .
23 The Council 's longstanding interest in the Scottish Steel Industry was given a higher priority by the decision of British Steel to close the hot strip mill at Ravenscraig in early 1991 and the indications were that the rest of Ravenscraig would cease operations in 1994 .
24 The refusal of British Steel to contemplate a sale of the redundant assets has resulted in submissions from the Council to the Office of Fair Trading and the Department of Trade and Industry .
25 Only 29% of British workers choose a salad for lunch — steak and kidney pie and fish and chips are almost as popular .
26 Critics also drew attention to the failure of British films to exploit the potential of British life .
27 Millions of British people support a call for the death penalty for a wide range of offences which , in my opinion , should include the following :
28 Three quarters of British people believe the quality of the nation 's education is declining .
29 To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will meet representatives of British airlines to discuss the consequences for the British aircraft engineering industry of their recent decisions on purchasing aircraft and engines .
30 According to the study , published tomorrow ( Thursday October 29 ) said to be the largest of its kind ever undertaken in the UK , six per cent of British households have a horse-rider in the family and the average horse owner , there are about 252,000 of them , spends more than £5,000 on their horse .
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