Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] by the national [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the fields brought in by IPC had been added others , discovered or developed by the national oil company INOC , under new-style arrangements , notably the Brazilian discovery Majnun , prominent in the fighting near Basrah in the 1980s . |
| 2 | Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all . |
| 3 | Within a 15-mile radius you can visit : the National Trust village of Lacock with 13th-century abbey ; the Fox Talbot Museum of Photography ; Bowood House with gardens and adventure playground ; Sheldon Manor , Wiltshire 's oldest inhabited manor house ; Castle Combe , a very pretty village ; Devizes with a market on Thursdays ; Bradford-on-Avon with a Saxon church ; Avebury Stone Circle , the largest in Europe and owned by the National Trust . |
| 4 | The 1990 budget , presented by the government and approved by the National Assembly on Feb. 21 , 1990 , set spending at £Syr61,875 million , 8.5 per cent up on the 1989 budget [ for which see p. 37100 ] . |
| 5 | The Trust , worth £50,000 over five years , is chaired by Lady Aberdeen and administered by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland . |
| 6 | The trust , which runs for five years , is chaired by the Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair and administered by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland . |
| 7 | It was surprising to see how sentimental some of my Russian pals could be , aided and abetted by the national drink . |
| 8 | Delegates also proposed that a president , with ceremonial and executive powers and chosen by the national assembly , should supervise the functions of the Cabinet acting through a prime minister . |
| 9 | This report was commissioned and published by the National Council on Government Accounting ( NCGA ) in the USA . |
| 10 | However , believing that the reforms do not go far enough , and backed by the National Council for Civil Liberties ( Liberty ) and The Independent , he is still pursuing the campaign to the European courts . |
| 11 | The exhibition is organised and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the National Archives of Canada and includes more than 190 photographs . |
| 12 | Organised by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions in Washington , D.C. and coordinated by the National Museum in Warsaw , the exhibition contains 110 drawings ( fifteenth- to eighteenth-century ) from twelve Polish institutions , the richest being the National Museum in Gdansk ( a pre-war German museum ) , the National Museum of Warsaw , the Ossolinski National Institute of Wroclaw , and the print room of the Warsaw University Library . |
| 13 | The alternative method , as epitomised by the National Semiconductor Digitalker chip , is that of stored compressed speech . |
| 14 | The 1990 budget , as adopted by the National Assembly on March 6 , envisaged a 4.4 per cent drop in GNP and a 3.7 per cent drop in national income . |
| 15 | In London , figures collected by the London Research Centre with the help of the London boroughs revealed not only the rapid decay of inner city housing as suggested by the national survey , but also the extent to which chronic disrepair is now prevalent even in suburban areas . |