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

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1 Lamb House , Rye , in East Sussex is one of the few National Trust houses that are let to private tenants .
2 Thanks to the many National Trust members and friends , companies and charitable trusts who contributed to the appeal , a further six miles of endangered coastline are now safe from development and six more miles are in the pipeline .
3 Maybe just locally , at local garages but as far as , far as being the all national or anything like that , there was never anything I with the tramcars .
4 Mogilny is playing for the Buffalo Sabres , while other Soviets include the New Jersey Devils ' Viacheslav Fetisov , the former national captain , and the Vancouver Canucks ' forward pair of Vladimir Krutov and Igor Larionov .
5 He has been in contact with Eddy Shah , the former national newspaper proprietor ; Owen Oyston , who owns Manchester 's Piccadilly Radio and Blackpool football club ; and Amer Midani , the Lebanese-born director who is the second largest shareholder on the United board .
6 One of them , Eddy Shah , the former national newspaper owner , said he was no longer interested in a deal with Knighton , but another , Owen Oyston , a local radio-station owner and property entrepreneur , applied to the Football League for permission to obtain a financial interest in United .
7 Eddy Shah , the former national newspaper proprietor , is one of his contacts .
8 Last weekend it was offered to Eddy Shah , the former national newspaper proprietor , for £16m .
9 Eddy Shah , the former national newspaper owner , has submitted a sworn affidavit that Knighton showed him confidential financial details of the club when he offered to sell the Edwards 's shares on for a £6m profit .
10 Since the year-end Lowndes has settled one of its actions , paying £3m to NFC , the former National Freight Consortium , to cover ending a distribution agreement signed before Lowndes took over Harris Queensway .
11 Beneath the unmistakably hangdog face of the former national security advisor was his Irish alias , Sean Devlin ; born in Dublin , 14th August 1937 ; colour of eyes , hazel ( ’ cnodhonna ’ in the Gaelic ) .
12 Though in the minority and benefiting from the support of the partisans of the former national coach Jacques Fouroux , Paparemborde mounted an effective opposition to the Ferrasse-Fabre axis and has emerged as an influential powerbroker .
13 The winning school tennis team , for example , will be taken to the All England Club to see the Wimbledon Museum , followed by a coaching session with Cox , former British No. 1 and currently Director for the Rover Junior Tennis Initiative , and Hutchins , the former National Team Manager and Davis Cup Captain .
14 In the late 1940s integrationists had tended to desire a single federal political system , which at some point would entail a single act of abrogation of national rights to a supranational authority , whose precedence over the former national states would be constitutionally defined .
15 In 1989 most of the former National Guardsmen were released by the Nicaraguan government .
16 In the same ways the author has elsewhere suggested that some of the difficult ‘ value ’ problems faced by the former National Assistance Board ( NAB ) staff stemmed from the ambivalence of legislation .
17 Unfortunately , decentralisation of this sort usually results in regional structures which duplicate the former national structure : bureaucracy in the same form , but on a smaller scale .
18 We have only to look at the string of sell-offs of assets of the former National Bus Company groups after privatisation to demonstrate conclusively that those are not far-fetched fears or exaggerated concerns .
19 Most of the former National Guards were high-ranking figures from the Somoza regime who had been in prison for much of the last 10 years .
20 There was fierce controversy surrounding the conference 's decision on April 22 to invite , as guests , members of the 1981 Solidarity leadership who had since split away from the union — most notably the former national co-ordinating commission member Andrzej Gwiazda , who had left after accusing Solidarity 's chairman , Lech Walesa , of generating a personality cult .
21 The former National Party leader and Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon , also an outspoken opponent of free market economics , was offered several minor posts outside the Cabinet , but turned them all down as " insulting " and expressed his intention to remain on the back benches , from where he would be free to criticize the new government .
22 Other significant changes included the appointment of the former National Education Minister , Djibo Laity Ka , to the Foreign Affairs portfolio .
23 In the main changes , Nohemí Sanín Posada de Rubio ( PSC ) , formerly ambassador to Venezuela , became the first woman to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs ( replacing Luís Fernando Jaramillo Correa , who became permanent representative at the UN ) ; Jorge Ospina Sardi ( NFD ) , the former National Planning Director , became Minister of Economic Development , replacing Ernesto Samper Pizano ( PL ) , who was switched to the newly created Ministry of Foreign Trade ; Alfonso López Caballero ( PL ) , formerly ambassador to France , was given Agriculture ; Carlos Holmes Trujillo García ( PL ) , mayor of Calí , became Minister of Education ; Mauricio Vargas Linares ( PL ) , the president 's media adviser , took over at the Ministry of Communications ; and Juan Camilo Restrepo was given Mines and Energy .
24 Sir Robert Muldoon , the former National Party leader and Prime Minister in 1975-84 , condemned the government 's welfare cuts and said on his weekly radio programme on Nov. 17 that he would leave Parliament ( where he had represented an Auckland constituency for over 30 years ) early in 1992 .
25 By mid-1991 the ALP remained deeply unpopular at federal level and in all the states except Queensland , where the party continued to benefit from reaction to the corruption of the former National Party government [ see above ] .
26 Tamaki had been held until December by Sir Robert Muldoon , the former National Party leader and Prime Minister in 1975-84 .
27 The new Minister of Finance and Economic Development was Ahmed Abubakar , hitherto director-general in the Finance Ministry , while the former National Planning Commission chair and Minister for Special Duties Chu Okongwu took over as Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources .
28 There is no rigour , no game plan , no inspiration , ’ the former national coach , Jacques Fouroux , murmured darkly .
29 The British were mistaken in supposing that they continued to have the same sovereign and therefore the same national identity vis-à-vis the outside world as the Canadians .
30 The substitution of citizenship for domicile in cases like that mentioned , after the manner of the law of some foreign countries , even if desirable on general grounds , would not solve the questions which arise when the laws of different parts of the same national territory , e.g. of England and Scotland , or of two states of the United States of America , come into competition .
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