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

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1 The Rise and Progress of the British Explosives Industry , 1909 ; ICI Magazine , vol. xxxiv , September 1956 , p. 239 . ]
2 David Holt ( Blackpool Borough ) , Ronnie Gass and John Bell ( both Cumbria ) , Hughie Duff ( Hull ) and Terry Scott ( Gateshead ) complete the Northern squad in a powerful six-rink side to take on Wales then Ireland today and finally Scotland tomorrow in quest of the British Isles Hilton Trophy team championships .
3 Hampton Utilities is a member of the British Jewellers Association , and its skilled craftsmen can carry out all sorts of repairs to silverware , antique and modern , including cutlery , candlesticks , mirrors and regimental medals .
4 8 October : The Duke of Gloucester as President of the British Consultants Bureau left Royal Air Force Northolt this afternoon to visit Portugal in an aircraft of No 32 Squadron , Royal Air Force .
5 Questioned about high damages awards following motor accidents , Ivor Carr , Secretary of the British Motorists Association , said there were moves afoot to increase car insurance premiums by 1,000 per cent and this would encourage motorists to indulge in defensive driving to keep premiums down .
6 Pond snail in monteray pine David Morgan ( or Ned ) is one of the rate sorts of person who always appears to be happy and cheerful , making him the natural leader of the Devon branch of the British Woodcarvers Association .
7 Several Americans around the long table , including Mueller and the head of the British Components division , were shaking their heads slowly .
8 Concern was also expressed for the future of the British components industry if Ford showed less willingness to purchase British components than Austin Rover traditionally had done — thus any job losses could extend beyond the two firms engaged in the merger .
9 Leading members of the British Ex-Services Wheelchair Sports Association travelled as VIP guests in a ceremony hosted jointly by the railway and Tywyn branch of the Royal British Legion .
10 BT is now crawling into the age of the silicon chip and the death of the British Telecommunications Bill , which would have allowed the government to sell off about half of BT , does not have to calm this wind of change even if the Labour party wins the election and reinstates BT 's monopoly .
11 City of London Telecommunications Ltd , which is 90% owned by the US Fidelity Management & Research Corp , is only the second company to win a new public telephone operators licence since the creation of the British Telecommunications Plc-Mercury Communications Ltd duopoly .
12 ENGLAND 'S Ben Clarke is fast becoming the success story of the British Lions tour of New Zealand .
13 The director of the British Roads Federation supports the Government 's new toll road scheme :
14 One major difference in the auction business between America and Britain is the amount of travelling that one does : in one week one may do an ‘ appraisal day ’ ( the equivalent of the British Antiques Road Show ) in Pennsylvania and then go on to look at a dinner service in Baltimore .
15 The whole of Great Britain was divided between them on a strictly geographical basis , and — subject to the general supervision of the British Railways Board and its chief officers in London — each region was completely responsible for the planning , working , and selling of all rail services in its area ( except in the seven provincial centres where PTEs had been established ) .
16 As chairman of the British Railways Board ( 1963–5 ) , Beeching had made his reputation in the public sector by the impressive way he had tackled the thankless job of modernizing the outdated rail network .
17 For example , under the provisions of the Transport Act 1962 , the secretary of State for Transport appoints the external auditors of the accounts of the British Railways Board ( the auditors must , incidentally , be members of one of the professional accountancy bodies recognized as qualified to undertake the audit of limited liability companies ) .
18 The Transport Act 1962 abolished this Commission and put the railways under the control of the British Railways Board .
19 They will continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the British Coal Corporation .
20 I intend to concentrate on two issues in the Queen 's Speech — the commitment to continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the commitment to introduce a new council tax and to establish a review of local government structure in England .
21 By 1987 , the government had ‘ privatized ’ half a dozen major public corporations including the telecommunications and gas utilities and the state airlines , and many smaller enterprises ( including the hotel and shipping interests of the British Railways Board ) .
22 In 1962-3 a committee , headed by Dr Beeching , reported on the need for rationalisation of the British Railways network .
23 This is the Andrew Chambers Memorial which forms the seventh round of the British Youths Championship .
24 Mr Toombs had been a founder member of the British premonitions Bureau in 1967 ( it registered 500 premonitions , most of which were concerned with major transport disasters ) .
25 A total of 63 passengers including five babies slid to safety after the captain of the British Airways turbo-prop bound for Jersey in the Channel Islands ordered the evacuation at Manchester Airport .
26 There is no more danger of a stand-up comedian entering the House of Lords ( some may argue that there are already plenty there ) than there was of the British Airways boss ( Lord ) John King being fobbed off with a mere MBE .
27 In the Dreamflight tradition , the crew of the British Airways jumbo that took the group to America were specially chosen for their affinity with children .
28 There was one last bit of excitement for ten-year-old Prince William on the flight home yesterday when he was allowed into the cockpit of the British Airways Airbus as it took off from Zurich .
29 Members of the British Agrochemicals Association ( BAA ) are required to supply only pesticides cleared under the scheme and to sell only to distributors who have agreed to supply those cleared products .
30 The privatisation of the British Airports Authority ( BAA ) , postponed for several weeks by the 1987 election , also raised worries of monopoly — no attempt was made to privatise the airports controlled by the BAA as separate competing companies .
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