The BSI Group produces British Standards under the authority of the Charter, which lays down as one of the BSI's objectives to:

Formally, as per the 2002 Memorandum of Understanding between the BSI and the United Kingdom Government, British Standards are defined as:

British Standards are one of the formal exceptions made to the Restrictive Trade Practices Act.

§ 18 ( 5 ) of the Act specifies that agreements to comply with British Standards should be disregarded when deciding whether an agreement is a restriction upon trade.

The BSI Group as a whole does not produce British Standards, as standards work within the BSI is decentralized.

Following the move on harmonisation of the standard in Europe, some British Standards are gradually superseded or replaced by the relevant European Standards ( EN ).

BSI Group began in 1901 as the Engineering Standards Committee, led by James Mansergh, to standardise the number and type of steel sections, in order to make British manufacturers more efficient and competitive.

* BS 0 A standard for standards specifies Development, Structure and Drafting of British Standards themselves.

Copies of British Standards are sold at the BSI Online Shop or can be accessed via subscription to British Standards Online ( BSOL ).

Many British Standards ( BSs ) – as well as some of the European and International Standards that were adopted as British Standards ( BS EN, BS ISO ) – are also available in public and university libraries in the United Kingdom.

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Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.

I have heard people talk with contempt about the British regulars, but that only proves that a lot of people talk about things of which they are deplorably ignorant.

It truly relives another age for the inhabitants use carriages rather than autos and old British and French forts are left intact for tourists to visit and record.

Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.

The Indians and Pakistanis are chafing under similar restrictions on the British market for similar reasons.

Rather, they are impressed with the British Government's success in forcing -- and helping -- the British textile industry to shrink and to change over to other products.

Many of the coal seams in the nationalized British mines are twisting, narrow and very deep.

The only other regions so blessed are the British Isles, western Europe, eastern China, southern Chile and parts of Japan, New Zealand and Tasmania.

International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

So British subjects voluntarily naturalized in a foreign state are deemed aliens from the time of such naturalization, unless, in the case of persons naturalized before the passing of the act, they have declared their desire to remain British subjects within two years from the passing of the act.

Persons who from having been born within British territory are British subjects, but who at birth became under the law of any foreign state subjects of such state, and also persons who though born abroad are British subjects by reason of parentage, may by declarations of alienage get rid of British nationality.

Almost all of Agatha Christie's books are whodunits, focusing on the British middle and upper classes.

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works ( IIC ) was incorporated under British law in 1950 as " a permanent organization to co-ordinate and improve the knowledge, methods, and working standards needed to protect and preserve precious materials of all kinds.

British English ( or BrEn, BrE, BE, en-UK or en-GB )< ref > is the language code for British English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref > is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere.

The standards produced are titled British Standard XXXX: YYYY where XXXX is the number of the standard, P is the number of the part of the standard ( where the standard is split into multiple parts ) and YYYY is the year in which the standard came into effect.

Politics in the Falkland Islands is minimal as no political parties exist on the islands, and the governmental and legal proceedings very closely resemble British standards.

These roads are built to British standards with a maximum of three lanes with hard shoulders.

The English-speaking regions of Canada and the Caribbean are caught between historical connections with the UK and the Commonwealth, and geographical and economic connections with the U. S. In some things, and more formally, they tend to follow British standards, whereas in others, especially commercial, they follow the U. S. standard.

English as an additional language ( EAL ) is usually based on the standards of either American English or British English as well as incorporating foreign terms.

On 19 May 2006, the British Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, announced new minimum nutrition standards for school food.

This was known as British Standard Whitworth, but was replaced by other standards in the late 19th century.

* Concorde, a supersonic transport built by Aérospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation The introduction of the GNAT compiler and the Ada 95 and 2005 standards has to some extent mitigated the affordability problem.

* the same language and knowledge of life in the UK standards apply as for those married to British citizens

Common world standards include ASA / ANSI / ASME ( USA ), PN / DIN ( European ), BS10 ( British / Australian ), and JIS / KS ( Japanese / Korean ).

David Cameron is the nineteenth British Prime Minister to have attended Eton, and has recommended that Eton set up a school in the state sector to help drive up standards.

" Tudor Parfitt, author of The Lost Tribes of Israel and Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, points out that the proof cited by adherents of British Israelism is " of a feeble composition even by the low standards of the genre.

Some independent or international schools have uniforms more closely resembling British school uniform standards, and boys in senior high school grades may be allowed to wear long trousers.

National standards, such as those of ASTM and the British Standards Institute, and International Standards can help the designer in increasing product integrity.

The threshold level of qualification for entry to the Register for clinical, counselling and educational psychologists is a professional doctorate ( and in the case of the latter two the British Psychological Society's Professional Qualification which meets the standards of a professional doctorate ).

In the UK, the British Standards Institution set standards for dishwashers.

About noon, against orders, Gramont impatiently attacked the allies with the Maison du Roi cavalry, initially with some success, breaking through the British front lines, throwing the British cavalry into their infantry and capturing a number of standards.