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

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1 The National Cancer Institute was sponsoring more than 30 studies to assess the role of certain nutrients , he said .
2 In 1971 the United States legislature passed a National Cancer Act , requiring the Director of the National Cancer Institute to produce a five year plan of his intentions .
3 Dr Umberto Saffiotti , an experimental pathologist at the National Cancer Institute at the time , said that type of no-effect level toxicology posed was ‘ developed during the Stone Age of toxicology ’ , and has nothing to do with self-replicating effects of carcinogens .
4 He examined the published data on 170 compounds tested in rodents by the National Cancer Institute ( NCI ) up to June 1980 .
5 Panganic acid , an ester of dimethylglycine , was first isolated from rice in 1948 by Hans Krebs , a chief chemist of the National Cancer Institute .
6 The best case in point , of course , is the quadrupling of funds at the National Cancer Institute following Richard Nixon 's declaration of the ‘ war on cancer ’ .
7 But the work of Muschel and her collaborators , George Khoury , Richard Koller and Ravi Dhar at the National Cancer Institute and Paul Lebowitz at Yale , now makes it look as though the mutation may not have occurred in the tumour cells alone — instead , the mutant gene may be a rare variant that is actually inherited by some people .
8 Cases were assigned to areas according to their residence address at diagnosis as defined for the national cancer registration scheme .
9 One further patient ( case 15 in table III ) had a second address in another part of Britain , to which he should correctly be allocated under the rules followed by the national cancer registration scheme ; he has therefore been excluded from the analyses .
10 We omitted from these analyses case 15 in table III because this person had an address in another part of Britain which was regarded as his area of residence for the purposes of the national cancer registration scheme .
11 The computer for the National Cancer Center will form the central database for an online national network of imaging data on cancer patients .
12 Paclitaxel 's anti-cancer properties were discovered in the late Sixties , as part of a programme sponsored by the National Cancer Institute .
13 It also seeks your approval to the which has been undertaken by respective chief officers , during the current financial year , in which , is why I 'm reporting to you now in accordance with the national regulations .
14 In respect of the role of the CBI and of employers , I pay tribute to the work done by employers and by the National Employers Liaison Committee .
15 The 1979 manifesto had promised to restore to the private sector the recently nationalized aerospace and shipbuilding industries , sell off the shares in the National Enterprise Board and National Freight Corporation , and review the role of BNOC .
16 He recalled the Department of Economic Affairs and the National Enterprise Board .
17 In the late 1970s , two budgets that were potentially important in urban economic development were the regional programmes implemented by the Department of Industry , and the policies effected by the National Enterprise Board .
18 This pattern was repeated by the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) .
19 In the mid-1970s , it was seen by the Labour administration as part of a comprehensive strategy towards regional economic and physical development in that the SDA 's activities were to be mirrored in Wales by the Welsh Development Agency ( WDA ) and in England by the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) .
20 The National Enterprise Board might never have come anywhere near what was required , but the principle was right : England needs a development agency or agencies with a wide range of social , economic and physical powers that are able to intervene in more depressed localities through corporate programmes emanating from the full range of public- and private-sector organizations .
21 The SDA was initially set up in 1975 ‘ to provide a regional dimension to complement the UK-wide sectoral interventionism of the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) ’ ( Moor , 1986 , p. 8 ) .
22 That is one of the jobs of the British Technology Group ( BTG ) , which the government created in 1980 by merging the National Enterprise Board with the National Research Development Corporation .
23 According to a report last year for the National Enterprise Board by PA International , a firm of consultants , Britain 's IT industry suffers from serious shortcomings .
24 The British Technology Group , formed by a merger of the National Enterprise Board and the National Research Development Council , has invested in in small firms in electronics .
25 In addition the powers of the National Enterprise Board , which operated various state-owned businesses , were to be restricted .
26 At that time Mr Tony Benn was Industry Secretary and the Labour government was attempting to increase state involvement in private industry by means of the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) .
27 Lord Lovell-Davis , Lord Kearton ( Labour financier and former head of the National Enterprise Board ) , Lord Wedderburn ( Professor at the London School of Economics ) and Joel Barnett ( merchant banker and former Labour Treasury Minister ) were put in the frame and sounded out .
28 Under the national enterprise allowance scheme administered by the new training and enterprise councils , 1,000 new businesses have been coming into existence every week this year .
29 On the specific question of picking winners , they remember all too well the failures of the national enterprise board , which invested in just over 100 companies .
30 Perhaps the hon. Lady will remember the success rate of the National Enterprise Board .
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