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 . |