Example sentences of "the [adj] national " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain , the Regional Library Bureaux have consistently handled both interlending and cooperative acquisition programmes , although their share of the total national interlending activity is only 8% — largely derived from handling types of material which are not stocked by the British Library Document Supply Centre ( BLDSC — see below ) . |
| 2 | Entry then became based on financial rather than medical or social assessment , and in 1983 upper limits were set on supplementary benefit , resulting in a massive increase in the total national bill for supplementary benefits to people in private sector homes — from £105m in 1983 to £500m by 1986 . |
| 3 | By the early 1980s its annual emission had been reduced to 630,000 tonnes ( equivalent to the total national emissions of sulphur dioxide from countries such as Sweden , Belgium and Denmark ) and , in line with Canadian policy , it is expected to decrease to around 300,000 tonnes by 1995 . |
| 4 | As Birch has pointed out , the Committee , the upper tier , will have the major task of negotiating with the government the proportion of the total national expenditure on public sector higher education and of sharing it out among the institutions ; in these very difficult tasks , it would ‘ benefit greatly from the presence and advice of additional members of standing in higher education and in relevant fields of employment ’ . |
| 5 | The Colorados won 55.1 per cent of the total national vote and gained 123 seats in the new 198-seat Assembly . |
| 6 | By 1946 , the total of marketable government stock comfortably exceeded annual national income while the total national debt ( including non-marketable debt and short-term instruments ) was well in excess of twice annual national income . |
| 7 | This is reflected in the fact that at end-March 1991 , government bonds outstanding constituted nearly 70 per cent of the total national debt in market holdings . |
| 8 | In individual constituencies grievances with the established political parties have to be very deeply felt , and very widely shared , to upset the normal national electoral swings . |
| 9 | Special troops belonging to the Georgian National Guard opened fire on Sept. 2 on 2,000 demonstrators in Tbilisi who were demanding the resignation of President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and of the Georgian Supreme Soviet . |
| 10 | On Sept. 9 Gamsakhurdia announced the formation of a republican Defence Ministry ( Dzhoni Pirtskhalaishvili being named Minister of Defence on Sept. 19 ) , and ordered rebel elements of the Georgian National Guard to return to barracks . |
| 11 | Its presidium included Shevardnadze as chair , Dzhaba Iosseliani ( leader of the Mkhedrioni militia commander instrumental in toppling Gamsakhurdia ) as deputy chair , Tengiz Sigua ( hitherto acting as Prime Minister ) and Tengiz Kitovani ( head of the Georgian National Guard ) . |
| 12 | In Uganda he is visiting the Ugandan National Council of Women , an umbrella organisation which supports women 's groups throughout the country , and the Ugandan Women 's Credit and Finance Trust , which finances small businesses . |
| 13 | On May 14 , Komla A. Gbedemah , a minister under former President Kwame Nkrumah and a presidential candidate in the 1970 elections , and 28 other prominent opposition figures , applied to the Accra High Court for an injunction against the Interim National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) to halt the implementation of the Political Parties Law 1992 . |
| 14 | Official figures from the Interim National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) , chaired by Mr Justice Ofori-Boateng , showed that Ghana 's electorate totalled an estimated 8,255,056 , of whom 3,090,020 had cast votes in the 200 constituencies of Ghana 's 10 regions . |
| 15 | Games set … match and the junior national title to Miss Taylor 6-3 6-7 6-1 |
| 16 | He was selected to represent BSAD Northern Region at the Junior National Championships in Blackpol in July , 1991 , where he won the gold medal in the shot putt and the 100m sprint . |
| 17 | In February , 1992 , he competed for the BSAD Northern Region team at the Junior National Swimming Gala held in the Dolphin Centre , Darlington . |
| 18 | A closer partnership between schools and industry is needed in the implementation of the broad National Curriculum . |
| 19 | The successful vote on energy policy reflected the broad national consensus which had developed since the issue was last addressed in a referendum in 1983 , when the proposal failed to secure a majority in more than half the cantons as required [ see p. 32643 ] . |
| 20 | Gaudin had stood successfully against the extremist National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and Bernard Tapie , the controversial left-wing millionaire chairman of Olympique Marseille football club , in the March 22 regional elections [ see pp. 38820-21 ] . |
| 21 | Thus within hospitals the Alliance of Health Workers ( AHW ) has formed which as a union allies itself with the progressive national union federation . |
| 22 | The Progressive National Party ( PNP , Dan Malcolm l. ) ; the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA , Ariel Misick l. ) ; the Turks and Caicos United Party ( TCUP , Glenn Evans-Clarke l . ) . |
| 23 | In his speech Assad lauded the achievements of the Progressive National Front ( the ruling Ba'ath-dominated coalition ) , but refused to rule out the future launch of new political parties . |
| 24 | The European national club monopolists — like Siemens , Ericsson and ITT-Alcatel — stayed in much the same positions . |
| 25 | The present-day National Union of Seamen was founded on the north east coast , which was also a major centre for the Seamen 's Reform Movement which recaptured the union for the rank-and-file in the mid-1960s . |
| 26 | The Col du Somport and the upper valley of the Aspe are at the western end of the Pyrenean National Park — to be exact , a narrow tongue of this extends across on the other , western side of the valley into the ring of mountains forming the Cirque of Lescun . |
| 27 | Later in the year , when we visit the area again , we heard that the Swedish Lapps had fenced off an area of the Dividal National Park , with over five kilometres of wire . |
| 28 | The first is to the north of Trinity College , and consists of the national and established centres : Thomas Caldwell Gallery , the Rubicon Gallery and the renovated National Gallery , which houses a rich assortment of exhibits , including 17th century Dutch , French and Spanish masters , and French Impressionists . |
| 29 | Members enthusiastically supported the retiring national chairman 's Birthday Scheme to raise funds to give each of the widows and ex-servicemen £5 and a birthday card . |
| 30 | With less than six weeks to go to the Olympic trials , Read , the triple national champion , boosted her confidence by lowering her own eight-month-old 50m backstroke British record with an impressive 30.06sec . |