Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] national [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Countryside Commission were to sign a deal with the Duke of Devonshire in September to grant him Capital Transfer Tax exemption ( estimated to be worth £12,000,000 ) in turn for large parts of this 130km 2 in the Dales becoming a public heritage centre under the Heritage Estate arrangement introduced by Leeds MP Denis Healey in 1975 to prevent the breakup of large estates ( the MP himself having just become President of the National Trust 's Yorkshire Moors & Dales Appeal ) . |
| 2 | The advice came from the president of the National Farmers ' Union , Mr Simon Gourlay , who discussed the matter with ministers . |
| 3 | The farmers , including the president of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland , John Ross , and the union 's milk convener , Alex Brown , called on the Scottish Secretary to back Scotland 's milk producers , who were overwhelmingly in favour of the SMMB 's proposals , and help overturn the Office of Fair Trading 's findings that the plan would distort trade for milk . |
| 4 | The two were speaking as Mrs Mary Whitehouse , president of the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association , called for a clamp-down on screen violence . |
| 5 | Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike . |
| 6 | As Mr Aitken almost points out , the perpetrators were unlikely to be genuine rugby supporters , but this is unfortunately a result of the national team 's success and the unhealthy Anglophobia nurtured by much of the Scottish press . |
| 7 | The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 introduced new principles and procedures for the management of the rural environment embodying the preferred solutions of the National Farmers ' Union and the Country Landowners ' Association to conflicts between agriculture and conservation . |
| 8 | On the heels of the National Front 's success last month in France and the triumphs of similar xenophobic right-wing parties in Belgium , Austria and Sweden , the ultra-right 's gains in the two former West German states were hardly surprising . |
| 9 | Such decisions to grant State aid can be taken in the light of a national government 's overall policy towards internal competition , and therefore need not conflict with the aims of its national competition policy . |
| 10 | SIR — In his review of the National Theatre 's Pygmalion ( April 13 ) , Charles Spencer rightly stresses the categorisation of Higgins as an emotional cripple rather than a potential bridegroom for Eliza . |
| 11 | The answer to this dilemma was simple yet effective and combined the desire to recognise exceptional achievement with the maintenance of the National Certificate 's philosophy . |
| 12 | There was a former junior Home Office Minister , Earl Jellicoe , from the Lords ; with the voluntary side of the Party being represented by Mrs Adelaide Doughty , chairman of the National Women 's Advisory Committee , and Mrs Lucille Iremonger , a journalist and wife of a Conservative MP . |
| 13 | He was chairman of the National Farmers ' Union branch , 1987–89 , chairman of the NFU county cereals and livestock committee 1986–88 and a representative in London and Brussels . |
| 14 | The Chairman of the National Docks ' Authority opened the batting by reviewing plans to meet the ever-growing volume of docks ' traffic , particularly the substantial growth in roll-on , roll-off between Britain and the continent . |
| 15 | Evidence of the radical shifts which were beginning to disrupt the vertical stripe format of her paintings emerged in the selection of works Riley made in 1989 as part of the National Gallery 's series , The Artist 's Eye . |
| 16 | Day nursery provision by local authorities was strictly limited in the 1930s and charged for , as a result of the cuts in local spending introduced as part of the National government 's economy drive , but when the Second World War came and women were to be mobilised in large numbers for the war effort , the government gave local authorities a 100-per-cent grant to cover the costs of day nurseries , merely charging parents for the cost of food served to the children . |
| 17 | Lastly , the Spanish Government argued that the possibility afforded by the Act of 1988 of exempting certain persons from the nationality condition to which reference was made in the last part of the national court 's question ( 2 ) in no way altered the foregoing considerations . |
| 18 | As for the possibility of granting certain persons dispensation from the nationality condition , which was mentioned in the last part of the national court 's question ( 2 ) , the Commission referred to Openbaar Ministerie of the Netherlands v. van Tiggele ( Case 82/77 ) [ 1978 ] E.C.R. 25 and Criminal proceedings against Anton Adriaan Fietje ( Case 27/80 ) [ 1980 ] E.C.R. 3839 , from which it appeared that the existence of such a possibility did not redeem a national measure which was incompatible with Community law . |
| 19 | The policy-making National Council of the PAICV announced after meeting on April 10-13 , 1990 , that the President would henceforth be elected by direct universal suffrage rather than as hitherto by deputies of the National People 's Assembly . |
| 20 | In support of the National Gallery 's case Mr Vlnas points to a 1946 agreement signed between Slovak officials and the gallery exchanging the altar for 380 prints , ten Gothic paintings , and twelve Gothic statues . |
| 21 | Minutes of the Port Ellen News and Reading Room , the Minute Book 1928–1969 of the Islay Branch of the National Farmers ' Union , extracts , where there is mention of Islay or Jura , taken from the Minutes of the Presbytery of Kintyre , registers and minute books from a number of Islay churches , school magazines and the complete issue of the community newspaper " Ileach " which was first printed in 1973 . |
| 22 | Not so John Emmerson of the National Westminster 's medical unit in London . |
| 23 | The plenum preceded a session of the National People 's Congress ( NPC ) , the national legislature , which began on March 20 . |
| 24 | According to the official news agency Xinhua the decision , taken at a session of the National People 's Congress Standing Committee , was " in accordance with Premier Li Peng 's nomination " . |
| 25 | Foreign correspondents in Beijing also reported that on April 1 , relatives of Wang Juntao and Chen Zeming had petitioned the ongoing session of the National People 's Congress . |
| 26 | Speaking at the opening session of the National People 's Assembly on April 2 , President José Eduardo dos Santos announced that multiparty presidential and legislative elections would be held on Sept. 29 and 30 . |
| 27 | Roger Welberry , chairman of the National Vegetable committee of the National Farmers ' Union in England and Wales will be in the province for a meeting organised by the Ulster Farmers ' Union next week . |
| 28 | THE convener of the potato committee of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland , James Black , has vowed to continue the fight the stop the Government wrecking the potato marketing scheme . |
| 29 | Dai Qing was arrested two weeks after the Mayor of Beijing , Chen Xitong , had delivered a 15,000-word report to the standing committee of the National People 's Congress ( Parliament ) on ‘ checking the turmoil and quelling the counter-rebellion ’ — the June clampdown on the pro-democracy movement . |
| 30 | The 22nd meeting of the seventh standing committee of the National People 's Congress ( legislature ) on Oct. 25 was expected to approve a proposal that China accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) , following Premier Li Peng 's announcement in August of China 's acceptance of the treaty ; however Japan 's Kyodo News Service reported on Oct. 31 that it was agreed only to hold further discussions [ see also p. 38340 ] . |