Example sentences of "the [num ord] national " in BNC.

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1 In October , however , the National Government decided to appeal to the country as a National Government , and the second National Government which followed the election was a very different animal .
2 The second National Government , by contrast , resulted from a general election in which it had inflicted a massive defeat on the Labour party .
3 And yet it was the second National Government , not the first , which really determined the politics of the 1930s .
4 Between 1929 and the formation of the second National Government after the general election , the Liberal party had been a genuine participant in the political system and the other parties had to consider carefully what its reactions might be .
5 In the winter of 1970 I attended the second national conference of the Women 's Liberation Movement , held in a grim out-of-season holiday camp at Skegness .
6 Today is in fact the second National Incest Awareness Day called by the fledgling charity Independent Care after Incestuous Relationship and Rape ( ICAIRR ) .
7 In the larger nations in the 1980S IBM in effect became the second national champion , and in some smaller countries perhaps even the first national champion computer supplier .
8 The second National Prune Week takes place February 18–24 , so look out for the California Prune Board 's displays .
9 Air pollution problems gained further national attention in December 1962 with the Second National Conference on Air Pollution .
10 The second national conference for charity accountants provides an opportunity for all those involved in charity financial management , including accountants , advisers with charity clients , treasurers and trustees , to meet other working in the same field , and to examine the new demands and expectations facing charities and the impact of new charity law .
11 By the time of the second national strike , called on March 2 , the government had acknowledged 12 deaths during the past month .
12 When the second national curriculum was being formulated in the 1980s , this tradition was in retreat .
13 ‘ According to the witnesses we have consulted , it seems likely that the growth expectations set forth in the Second National Plan ( 1954–57 ) were in contradiction to the conventional wisdom at the beginning of the 1950s , which expected that only low rates of growth were possible …
14 And so the 29th National Championship Air Races at Reno were started .
15 STEAD FIELD , Nevada , was the site of the 29th National Championship Air Races , which attracted more than 100 pilots who competed in four classes of air racing every day .
16 In a speech on the eve of the 41st National Day on Oct. 1 , Premier Li Peng hailed China 's improved international standing , citing newly-established ties with Saudi Arabia , Indonesia and Namibia , and the West 's " essential flexibility " in its relations with China .
17 Privately British officials believe Mr Patten will now have to endure a barrage of criticism from China over the next few weeks , following Prime Minister Li Peng 's report to the 8th National Party Congress next Monday at which he is expected to lambast the colonial administration for trying to subvert China with western-style democracy .
18 Observers noted , however , that after the seventh party plenum , the government had stepped up its efforts to rein in the country 's increasingly outspoken journalists , especially after a conference of writers in October defied the party 's attempt to dictate proceedings and demanded more democracy in the country [ see p. 37123 for approval of a new restrictive press law at the sixth session of the eighth National Assembly in late December 1989 ] .
19 Despite the passage of the new restrictive press laws , observers noted a significantly positive attitude towards democratization in a speech delivered by Council of State Chairman Vo Chi Cong at the sixth session of the eighth National Assembly held on Dec. 18-28 , 1989 [ see also p. 37123 ] .
20 Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time .
21 Despite the " stagnation of a number of industrial enterprises " , the commitment to the abolition of subsidies and a shift to " socialist cost accounting " was confirmed at the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly held in June .
22 The seventh session of the eighth National Assembly was held in Hanoi on June 14-30 [ for sixth session in December 1989 see p. 37123 ] .
23 The eighth session of the eighth National Assembly was held in Hanoi on Dec. 5-21 [ for seventh session in June 1990 see p. 37532 ] .
24 The ninth session of the eighth National Assembly was held in Hanoi from July 27 to Aug. 12 [ see p. 37916 for eighth Assembly session held in December 1990 ] .
25 The eighth national congress of the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) was held near Johannesburg on Dec. 5-8 .
26 The 10th session of the eighth National Assembly was held in Hanoi on Dec. 10-26 [ see p. 38390 for ninth Assembly session held in July-August 1991 ] .
27 The Eighth National Conference of the Young Communist League , held at Bermondsey in February 1936 , marked the first serious attempt to broaden the appeal of the YCL .
28 HRH Prince Charles in a message to the sixth National Conference of Organic Food Production What is worrying farmers most is that nature has a nasty habit of having a sting in the tail .
29 A Taiwan delegation took part in the fourth national games for ethnic minorities held in Nanning , Guangxi , on Nov. 10-17 , the first to attend a Chinese national sporting event since 1949 .
30 This survey reported a ‘ nostalgia ’ among socialists for the Fourth National Plan of the early sixties .
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