Example sentences of "the first national " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 2 | Prince Edward attends the presentation of the Historical Association 's Young Historians prizes on the First National History Day at the Imperial War Museum , London SE1 . |
| 3 | ‘ But we will have the first National Hunt racing on all-weather anywhere in the world at our first meeting ( Lingfield 's opening card is all Flat ) and we are also staging the first trials at racing pace on the new surface ( they take place on Sunday ) . ’ |
| 4 | 12 October : The Prince Edward this evening presented the Historical Association 's Young Historian prizes on the First National History Day at the Imperial War Museum , London SE1 . |
| 5 | Whether this momentous event , the first national coal strike since 1926 was the result of accidental circumstances or a long-term conspiracy between the National Coal Board and the Department of Energy was subsequently fiercely debated . |
| 6 | The first National Government , the government which forms the focal point of most historical writing on the crisis , followed the collapse of the Labour government in August 1931 . |
| 7 | The first National Government was not intended to be a coalition government in the normal sense of the term . |
| 8 | The reason why so many books and articles on the 1931 crisis end with the formation of the first National Government is that their authors are still obsessed by the time-worn and stale debates about Ramsay MacDonald 's supposed ‘ betrayal ’ of Labour , about a hypothetical ‘ plot ’ , and about the ‘ bankers ’ ramp' . |
| 9 | The key to the formation of the first National Government lies in the parliamentary arithmetic facing the second Labour government as it sought to implement its programme of economies in August 1931 . |
| 10 | How , then , did the first National Government come about ? |
| 11 | In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle . |
| 12 | So it was that the agreement on which the first National Government was formed was ignored by the King , who granted a dissolution under conditions which broke both the letter and the spirit of the agreement . |
| 13 | The events between the formation of the first National Government and the general election , however , turned what had been an incipient three-party system into an unbalanced two-party system in which the Conservatives , reinforced by defectors from the Liberal and Labour parties , the Liberal Nationals , and National Labour party , were the obvious beneficiaries . |
| 14 | It was the general election , then , and not the formation of the first National Government , that was the crucial event in the politics of the 1930s . |
| 15 | Voters lined up before dawn in Chad yesterday to participate in the first national election in 20 years in this war-torn former French colony . |
| 16 | Their course is so far short : the first national Green Party founded in New Zealand as the Value Party in 1972 , the next in the United Kingdom in the following year and then a long gap until Ecolo in Belgium in 1980 heralded a rush either to set up or amalgamate existing groups into parties in the early and mid-1980s . |
| 17 | In six appearances in carcass competitions at the Royal Smithfield Show he has taken three major championships and three reserves ; his lambs have triumphed at the Birmingham Primestock Show ‘ umpteen times ’ and topped the lot at the first national Welsh Primestock Show last year at Builth Wells . |
| 18 | In 1896 the fourth Congress resolved itself into the first National Council with a permanent staff and offices , at first in Birmingham and then in the Congregationalists ' London headquarters , Memorial Hall . |
| 19 | THE FIRST national index of ‘ grasses ’ is to be compiled by the National Criminal Intelligence Service which went into operation last week . |
| 20 | The first national West German survey took place in 1983 and included spruce , pine , fir , beech and oak . |
| 21 | We have financed the European Arts Festival to be held throughout Britain during our Presidency of the Community in the second half of this year , as well as the first National Music Day in June . |
| 22 | The degree to which ‘ internal ’ factors — as opposed to external pressures — lead to the emergence of a separate nationality obviously varies in emphasis between cases , and the first were possibly of greater significance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the emergence of the first national groups in Europe . |
| 23 | I shall not forget my visit that year with the first National Union of students delegation to the USSR , and limping out of our aircraft at Vilna in Poland into the great reception area . |
| 24 | The President of the National Deaf Club , A.J. Wilson , donated the first national trophies to be played for at golf and at billiards . |
| 25 | Classic FM , the first national commercial radio station , is to install a network of 22 transmitters reaching 86 per cent of the population . |
| 26 | It was the first National Forest park , created over 50 years ago , the 28,000 acres of verdant forest contain a history as colourful and as remarkable as its setting . |
| 27 | A BOY who has won the first national Kids Who Care award is to use his prize money to buy a guide dog for his brother . |
| 28 | It paves the way for the first national lottery in the UK since 1826 . |
| 29 | As a parish priest he also served as a diocesan representative on the first National Liturgy Commission and as a schools commissioner with the North Riding of Yorkshire in the diocesan office . |
| 30 | The first national conference of the Cooperative Party set the agenda . |