Example sentences of "of the national " in BNC.
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| 31 | Certain newspapers and television programmes have long enjoyed surname humour — the mid-wife called Miss Stork , the taxi-driver Mr Hanger — but few such features have unearthed a Mr England , Miss English or Mrs Albion whose character is , in some obscure way , an embodiment of the national one . |
| 32 | At a state banquet on the eve of the national day in the Great Hall of the People , the head tables were cluttered with ageing revolutionaries slumped in their seats . |
| 33 | Nothing was known of the fate of the three men , all of them active on behalf of the National League for Democracy , until 27 July , when the official radio announced that they had been condemned to death . |
| 34 | The Princess Royal opens the new Hassy Carrot Growers ' New Packhouse at Whitehall Farm , Iselham , Cambridgeshire ; visits Lincolnshire ; opens the new George Adams and Sons Factory at Spalding ; visits the recording studios of the National Tape Magazine for the Blind at Lilac Cottage , New Bolingbroke ; as President , National Agricultural Centre Rural Trust , opens a new housing development at Mareham-le-Fen ; opens the extension to Kirkby on Bain Church of England Primary School ; and this evening , as Patron , College of Occupational Therapists , attends a reception and dinner at St James 's Palace . |
| 35 | Members of the National Union of Teachers in Hackney and Tower Hamlets have voted , by a 95 per cent majority , to refuse to teach classes of more than 30 pupils . |
| 36 | Robin Cook , a member of the national executive and the health spokesman , said that a Labour government which sought to force its programme on an unwilling nation would be unsocialist . |
| 37 | Sister Margaret Traxler , of the National Coalition of American Nuns , said that she had told Dr Runcie : ‘ The Roman Catholic Church says this is a deterrent to unity ; but we say , how can this be a deterrent to unity when discrimination against women is evil ? ’ |
| 38 | David Blunkett , another member of the national executive , told a conference fringe rally organised by the soft-left Labour Coordinating Committee that Labour would have to find additional funds for its social programme by cutting £9.5bn from defence spending over five years , and raising the level of taxation on the rich . |
| 39 | In any case , the controlled combustion of PCBs must be a diminishing source of the national load of dioxin pollution . |
| 40 | Afterwards Her Royal Highness visited the Recording Studios of the National Tape Magazine for the Blind , Lilac Cottage , New Bolingbroke . |
| 41 | In the afternoon Her Royal Highness , President of the National Agricultural Centre Rural Trust , opened a new Housing Development at Mareham Le Fen . |
| 42 | In spite of the setback on the defence spending vote , Mr Kinnock later scored a further advance with the results of the national executive elections , which saw Ken Livingstone replaced by John Prescott , the party 's robust transport spokesman . |
| 43 | When French politicians achieve a certain dignity and experience , and lose a certain up-to-dateness , off they go to the Senate , where the marble floors of the National Assembly are replaced by thick carpets ( softer when they fall over ) and where the young are kept firmly in their place . |
| 44 | The Princess Royal , President , The Save the Children Fund , visits the Lifechance Project at Cricket Road , Cowley , Oxford ; later , as Patron , Universiade ‘ 91 World Student Games , visits Sheffield ; and , later , attends the Annual General Meeting and Conference of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux at York University . |
| 45 | Sir Douglas Peter Crossman , of Sandy , Bedfordshire , former chairman of Mann Crossman Paulin and later of Watney Mann , chairman of the Brewers ’ Society 1968-69 Deputy Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire 1958 and chairman of the National Union of the Conservative Party 1969 , left estate valued at £6,277,893 net . |
| 46 | Joanne Atkins won yesterday 's second leg of the National Grade A Championship but Andy Austin , the victor with River Hill on Monday , remains the overall leader in this three-part contest which will be decided today . |
| 47 | They are heartened by finding common ground between English and science for , if nothing else , the introduction of the national curriculum has encouraged teachers from different disciplines to talk to each other : ‘ At one time , we could conceive of ourselves as subject teachers , ’ said Mr Lenarduzzi . |
| 48 | Thus the expedition is neatly manipulated to include many of the requirements of the national curriculum : ‘ We are very keen to make sure that we do n't lose all the good things that have been going on in schools , ’ she says . |
| 49 | Until now , much of the thrust of the national curriculum has gone into preparing teachers . |
| 50 | Officials said four units of the national police had been assigned to the case , including two specialist terrorist squads . |
| 51 | Administration officials said that an emergency meeting of the National Security Council ( NSC ) considered deploying US troops to back the rebels on Tuesday , but decided against it . |
| 52 | The Princess Royal this afternoon attended the Annual General Meeting and Conference of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux at the University of York and was received on arrival by Major-General H. Woods ( Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of Yorkshire ) . |
| 53 | The Princess Royal , President , Riding for the Disabled Association , visits the Abingdon Group , Longworth , Abingdon ; attends the Annual General Meeting of the National Association of Victim Support Schemes at Central Hall , Westminster , London SW1 ; and as President , Royal Yachting Association , attends a Racing Rules Committee Meeting at the Royal Thames Yacht Club , 60 Knightsbridge , London SW1 . |
| 54 | Back in London in 1943 , Dorothea Ramsey served on the Advisory Case Sub-Committee of the National Council of Social Service . |
| 55 | Jimmy Knapp , left-wing leader of the National union of Railwaymen believes that his members had a ‘ genuine ’ interest in the miners ' strike because pit closures would mean fewer coal trains . |
| 56 | From the opposing camp , Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers , was cheered when he likened the review report to In Place of Strife — the Wilson government 's attempt to curb union power . |
| 57 | The party is committed to renationalising the water industry , but Syd Tierney , on behalf of the National Executive Committee , said it could not promise to buy back , ‘ acre by acre ’ , any land which is sold . |
| 58 | Jimmy Knapp , general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen , predicted that the Government 's scheme for selling off British Rail would help to guarantee the defeat of the Tories at the next election . |
| 59 | SPENDING ON some areas of the National Health Service could be downgraded in Labour 's list of priorities as a result of the leadership 's determination to make the productive economy the centrepiece of the party 's programme for government . |
| 60 | The sport 's most prominent black is Bill White , president of the National League . |