Example sentences of "as [art] national " in BNC.

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1 The Irish language as the national language is the first official language .
2 The public could be charged a tax specifically to pay for publicly funded legal services , in the same way as the National Health Service , Stephen Gilchrist , a London solicitor , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg .
3 Somehow Mr Lee has to carry the old guard with him , not least because the mainlanders dominate the legislature as well as the National Assembly .
4 Opposition is being led by an unusual alliance consisting of the Outdoor Writers ' Guild , which counts many leading walkers among its membership , the Country Landowners ' Association and the National Farmers ' Union , as well as the National Trust , the Countryside Commission and individual walkers .
5 First , the European Parliament can never be as accountable to the electorate as the national parliaments .
6 So far as the National Curriculum is concerned , the Act ( in section 3(1) ) provides for foundation subjects , in two categories :
7 As the National Curriculum is implemented , it will be possible to carry out a check of the curriculum of each school .
8 Much discussion revolves round whether English Heritage ( whose 400 castles and abbeys are largely unfurnished ) has the capacity to care for fragile interiors and furniture in the same way as the National Trust .
9 each profession includes an anti-ageist statement in its code of conduct , as the National Union of Journalists has done ;
10 What is new , however , as the National Curriculum comes into effect , is the impossibility of providing for these areas of learning within discrete subject entitlements .
11 The structure of intelligence reveals itself spontaneously in the way people behave intellectually ; it is not imposed by the assumptions of testers , as the national press would have it .
12 Since then , as the National Debtline , the service has broadened its scope to give advice on how to stabilize any apparently unmanageable debt , not just on how to save the home .
13 The only solution , as far as the National Parks Authority is concerned , is to close certain roads during peak periods , such as bank holidays .
14 Fishnet varieties , worn by twice as many Scots as the national average , become plant ties in the garden , abstract wall hangings and — yes — fishing nets .
15 Swahili has been the dominant language since broadcasting began , but the widespread acceptance of it as the national language did not mean that no controversy was involved .
16 The call comes as the National Curriculum Council undertakes a review on what schools are required to teach by law .
17 Traditionally , the more active members have tended to belong to local groups , and the numbers of groups and group members have not grown as fast as the national membership .
18 Millions of TV viewers saw Garry weep as the national anthem was played .
19 However , as the National Old People 's Welfare Committee noted ( 1963:6 ) , ‘ Since then there has been no apparent official action to promote the employment of elderly people ’ .
20 Moreover , as the National Union of Teachers argues in response to the White Paper Teaching Quality , the basis of and variation between different HMI ratings of teacher competence is not made clear ; and interestingly , these ratings ( formed on the basis of only two observations per teacher ) , are less generous than those provided by the teachers ' heads .
21 This argument , too , as the National Union of Teachers again point out , is empirically weak , however .
22 Yesterday 's decision comes as the National Union of Teachers is poised to boycott national English tests for 14-year-olds in June .
23 More than a museum devoted to one artist 's work ( like the Museum Picasso , or the Fundació Joan Miró ) , it will be competing for income and audiences with an increasing number of new museums in Barcelona : the stylish Centre d'Art Santa Mònica which cuts a dash on the tourist drag of the Ramblas ; a museum of contemporary art being designed by Richard Meier , to be squeezed into the dense Barri Gotic , as well as the National Museum of Catalan Art up on Montjuic , remodelled by Gae Aulenti , and currently under construction .
24 External bodies such as the National Council for Vocational Qualifications and the Health and Safety Executive are forcing through the increased professionalisation of the teaching and climbing and the rescuing of climbers .
25 As late as 1861 , expectation of life at birth for males in Liverpool was 26 ; in Okehampton , Devon , it was 57 ; as big a difference as the national difference between 1840 and 1960 ( Woods 1982 ) .
26 Of the course this unity crumbles as soon as the national cause is identified not with generalities , but with more divisive specifics : not with ‘ Israel ’ in general , but with the supremacy of the Welsh language ; not with Flemishness as against Frenchness , but with a specific Flemish nationalist party .
27 Other festivals include the Dragon Boat Festival in June , and the Autumn Mooncake Festival , as well as the National Day with its parades through the city .
28 As the national administration made more demands in the form of conscription and taxation , so the recommendation of a patron became more important .
29 Only in areas of very high unemployment was there any substantial proportion for whom the ending of temporary jobs was the reason for unemployment ( it was given by nearly 14 per cent of the sample in areas where unemployment was at least twice as high as the national average ) .
30 The monitoring and criticism of police conduct on picket lines by such independent organisations as the National Council for Civil Liberties has served to highlight , and therefore moderate , misbehaviour , especially by the police .
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