Sentence examples for british norm from inspiring English sources

How did the prom become the British norm?

When the fireworks finish tonight, and the rain starts, will we all revert to the cold, damp, British norm, or will we squeeze an Indian summer out of a lingering sense of goodwill?

This year's list, though, makes a definitive statement that such writers are no longer the exotic outsiders that add colour (literally as well as figuratively) to the British norm.

Still, foreigners and ethnic minorities seem to be gradually converging on white British norms.

Many people viewed the highly praised dictionary as overly innovative; educated Americans, even those who supported Webster's jingoism, were often conservative linguistically, adhering to British norms, and unwilling to challenge the authority of Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755.

He said that immigrants had to shed traditions like forced marriages and genital mutilation if they wanted to live in Britain and that they needed to learn to speak English and adopt "British norms".

"The absence of taxation powers from the current devolution settlement in Wales is an aberration from international and British norms," it said.

However, controversy exists among experts as well as the public on whether the issue should be discussed and evaluated within the British norms or from a wider multi-national perspective.

Anyone, a visiting American, for instance, who violates the British norms is likely to make himself seem foolish - and condescension, in theory, wards off the approaching embarrassment of the other guy.

'British norms' are not, of course, shared by all of the UK population, and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are very heterogeneous.

Classified according to British norms [ 25], the proportion of Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) parent-rated measure of children with symptoms of mental health disorders in the abnormal/borderline range were as follows: emotional problems 47.9 %, conduct problems 37.1 %, hyperactivity 51.5 %, peer relationship problems 54.5 %, and problems with pro-social behavior 18.2%%.