Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] national [noun sg] " 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 | The riots were put down by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , with support from Serbia , in an apparent rebuttal of the Croatian authorities ; observers noted that this was the first time that the JNA , whose officer corps was dominated by ethnic Serbs , had been used to put down violence outside Serbia itself . |
| 3 | DUBLIN 'S Tommy Carr has been banned for six months following his sending off in the recent National League Football final against Donegal . |
| 4 | Similar thinking lay behind the setting up of the British National Film League in 1921 to ‘ encourage the production and exhibition of British-made films ’ . |
| 5 | So as to keep a fair balance , invitations were also given to all other parties contesting the by-election , only one of which was finally taken up by the Scottish National Party , about a week later . |
| 6 | By the end of the year he was predicting , in research carried out for the Scottish National Party , that unemployment would have a worse impact in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK , reflecting the poorer social conditions prevalent there . |
| 7 | So far , 97 operations due to have been performed early this week have been cancelled , 80 out of the 200 national health service beds in the hospital have been rendered unusable and damage totalling at least £250,000 has been caused . |
| 8 | Then , out of the blue , Simon and Moscato announced after a considered assessment they had decided to opt out of the French national squad 's World Cup preparations . |
| 9 | Studies carried out by the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States suggested that 88 per cent of the carbon dioxide could be removed by an absorption-stripping system . |
| 10 | This entirely new production , due to go on to the Royal National Theatre in London , remains true to the essence of Lorca 's play , and as vibrant as the heat and colours of ‘ the land of sun and shadow ’ . |