Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] national " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has not national taxation increased with higher levels of VAT and the introduction of poll tax ? |
| 2 | Whilst our competitors in Europe and elsewhere continued to push their training objectives forward , Britain remains the only modern Western European country which has neither national objectives for training nor a statutory work force and , as yet , no unified or progressive system of national qualifications . |
| 3 | 1 bag of nuts ( to drive away National Trust squirrels ) |
| 4 | They are also partially visible from the coast path which passes over National Trust property . |
| 5 | The Flemish parties agreed to allocate more national revenues to regional budgets . |
| 6 | The Coleraine Times won the Newspaper Society award for the best free newspaper in Northern Ireland with the photographer and sports editor on that paper picking up national awards . |
| 7 | The European Commission last year proposed that all EC railways should separate track operation from running services , in the hope that it would then be easier to open up national railways to outside competition . |
| 8 | Rabuka warned that the army would step in , but at an economic summit meeting on June 29-30 , the government agreed to set up national wage guidelines . |
| 9 | Turkmenistan was to set up national armed forces , formed out of former Soviet units stationed in the republic , but under joint Turkmen and Russian command . |
| 10 | London being the capital city is always likely to be the stage on which protest both national and international is carried out . |
| 11 | The EMF would not carry out national monetary policy decisions , so this would not interfere with the Bank of England 's role in this area , although the EMF would act as an indirect constraint on domestic monetary policy and would be in control of ECU interest rates , which would eventually be expected to influence national interest rates . |
| 12 | He harshly criticized the government , accusing it of " treasonous " mismanagement of the economy by selling off national property to foreigners at cut-rate prices in its bid to privatize state-owned companies . |
| 13 | The North-east coalfield developed early because of access to sea routes to the capital ; the other landlocked coalfields catered only for regional markets before canals and navigable rivers enabled them to lower their prices and until the railways opened up national markets . |
| 14 | If the countries of the EC all give up national power and pass it to the European level , are they all giving up the same thing ? |
| 15 | Using both national data and more detailed information on the operation of the Scheme in particular local areas , the study seeks to assess the costs and benefits of the Scheme in relation to the claims made by its advocates and critics during the controversy surrounding its introduction . |
| 16 | To date , it has been co-ordinated through a small Rome-based unit which assists tropical countries in drawing up national plans preventing forest loss . |
| 17 | In the short term , the Commission will concentrate its efforts largely on biomass , biofuels , energy-from-waste , wind power and small hydro power , with funds available for such purposes as drawing up national inventories on the use of renewables , creating uniformity of standards and implementing a statistical recording system . |
| 18 | It will cover both National Irish Bank and Northern Bank . |
| 19 | No knuckles rapped over National fiasco |
| 20 | By convention dating from the revolutionary struggle of the seventeenth century , control over national financial affairs is the prerogative of the House of Commons . |
| 21 | We will tighten controls against exploitation , we will create more National Parks and we will improve access to the countryside . |
| 22 | A Royal Commission was appointed in April 1990 to draw up national charter to regulate political life [ see pp. 37392-93 ] . |
| 23 | The European Community competition commissioner Karel Van Miert is endorsing proposals — bitterly contested in the more state corporatist member countries — for breaking up national telephone monopolies by 1998 to free markets for calls both within and between member states ; the idea of an interim deregulation that would affect only transborder traffic has now been abandoned ; the UK is the only Community member open to phone call competition ; Denmark will follow suit next year and the Netherlands is expected to move as well ; Van Miert wants the Community to set liberalisation priorities and a timetable by year end , including proposals for regulatory changes by the end of 1994 , with market-opening to start in 1995 . |
| 24 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 25 | This was a visionary proposal which would have brought economic and foreign policy matters within the ambit of the Union decision-making process , would have strengthened the position of the EC Commission , would have phased out national vetoes to which I referred above and have given the EP an enhanced law-making ( as opposed to its largely consultative ) role . |
| 26 | One old lady sitting upright , prim and wearing round National Health Service glasses , became agitated as I approached her chair . |
| 27 | TRT WINS AS NATIONAL NETWORKS , UK POST OFFICE PART |
| 28 | California in the 1960s was not only a big and important state , it was also a political forcing ground where developments were occurring in microcosm that would eventually take on national dimensions . |
| 29 | They are usually quite good at cutting daily national papers and the leading magazines , but they tend to be variable in their coverage of specialist magazines and of regional media . |
| 30 | Walkers pour over National Trust , Forestry Commission and Nature Conservancy information leaflets showing nature trails , with growing scepticism , not realising that they themselves are the problem . |