Example sentences of "[adv] the national " in BNC.

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1 While suspicion as to the source of the leakage had fallen on a variety of people , I agreed wholeheartedly with the decision that Wilson , and presumably the National Executive , had arrived at .
2 Of course , if it were true , as the State Department and eventually the National Security Council professed to believe , that the threat of communist aggression against Indo-China was only one phase of anticipated plans to seize all of Southeast Asia , then this was an unthinkable alternative .
3 BRITAIN 's first solar-powered lavatories have switched on the National Trust to cutting its £2.5 million power bill by using more ‘ green energy ’ .
4 1.3.5 There was a need for provision which articulated with awards of other bodies eg the National Coaching Foundation .
5 The committees formed by various institutional investors ( eg the National Association of Pension Funds ( NAPF ) and the Association of British Insurers ( ABI ) ) .
6 At the start only 14 per cent of our panel reported Labour stressing these issues , but the figure rose to 20 per cent in the fourth week and 32 per cent in the fifth as Labour sought to divert attention away from defence and to move on from unemployment , which directly affected only a small minority , to education and especially the National Health Service , which directly affected the vast majority of the electorate .
7 As Sherman saw the teacher stop and point in the other direction , he dropped to a quadrupedal stance , put down the National Geographic , stopped vocalizing completely , lost his pilo-erection , and appeared completely dejected .
8 The struggle for survival is all that he knows : ‘ When we were in charge during the riots , ’ he says ‘ we pulled down the national flag outside the supermarket .
9 They would ally themselves with the united Labour forces and afford the possibilities of developing a mighty Peoples Front which will bring down the National Government . "
10 Four or five years before , the Communist Party would have advocated revolution " to bring down the National Government " .
11 However , perhaps the National Deaf Club 's most distinguished member was Arthur James Wilson , who succeeded S. Bright Lucas to the presidency and held it for the rest of his life .
12 And nothing in Italy — except perhaps the national football team — so titillates the Italian public as Ferrari .
13 So the National Health Service Act , the Children Act , the National Assistance Act , etc. , are statements of policy .
14 So the National Trust is keen to retain the natural tranquility of the valley :
15 One of his tasks will be to bring in the national lottery .
16 The administrator phoned the estate owner and brought in the National Guard who captured the leaders of the union from their homes one night .
17 The government has decreed that , from the end of this month , only the national colours and the coat of arms of the new republic can can be displayed .
18 The government has decreed that , from the end of this month , only the national colours and the coat of arms of the new republic can can be displayed .
19 Only the National Assembly has the power to amend the constitution or vote itself out of office — an unlikely prospect given that only 50 or so assemblymen have accepted the government 's offer of a $175,000 tax-free retirement pension .
20 Telana now became involved in not only the national market economy , but also an international one , as these wholesalers were buying for export .
21 Piliso said that only the National Party rejected the proposal for a constituent assembly , and that the government feared the participation of the masses in deciding the constitution of a future South Africa .
22 Following Bagehot or modern functional sociology , the assertion is made that the figure of the sovereign binds together the national collective .
23 But they wiped away the national disgrace of Wednesday 's defeat to America 's soccer novices by outfighting one of the favourites to win next year 's World Cup here in the States .
24 Nevertheless the national curriculum in maths , science and English was introduced in 1989 and the teachers have complained bitterly of the short time available for training and of the meagre resources devoted to it — £47.5 million for training in content and £33.1 million for preparing teachers for the new tests and assessment .
25 Thus the national economic programme departs from the political ; national independence does not include economic independence .
26 The foral provinces were exempt from Spanish conscription , taxation , and customs duties : thus the national customs frontier ran along the Ebro .
27 Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria .
28 Partly , this is a matter of teacher supply : in certain areas of the country it is not just the National Curriculum that is at risk — it is any curriculum .
29 just the national curriculum
30 Annual General Meetings are attended by several thousand employee shareholders and ( in contrast to the normally sedate company AGM in some discreet City hall ) NFC has to take over the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham or the Winter Gardens at Blackpool .
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