Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] the national [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Friars Craig in Derwentwater was purchased by public subscription and given to the National Trust in his memory in 1922 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ( The grant was repeated in 1876 and lodged in the National Bank , Bridgend ) . |
4 | The main body of the 1992 budget , approved by the Council of Ministers on Sept. 18 [ see p. 38445 ] , and presented to the National Assembly on Oct. 15 , was adopted on Oct. 20 by invoking Article 49.3 of the Constitution ( " engagement of the government 's responsibility " ) , whereby legislation could be adopted on first reading unless the opposition tabled a vote of censure . |
5 | 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 ] . |
6 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that , thanks to the Government 's progressive policies in privatising the electricity industry , that area of south-east Essex deserves a visit because methane produced by all the muck that comes out of London is being dumped at Mucking Flats , converted into electricity and sold to the national grid , thanks to the enterprise of Cory 's , which is in my constituency ? |
7 | Following the creation of the National Heritage Memorial Fund , several outstanding houses have been saved with their contents and handed to the National Trust . |
8 | The Trust , worth £50,000 over five years , is chaired by Lady Aberdeen and administered by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The picture , a later version of a work in the Louvre , was bought at Sotheby 's in 1985 for £2.2 million and loaned to the National Gallery , London . |
11 | Suh Kyung-won was arrested in June 1989 and charged under the National Security Law with spying for North Korea . |
12 | It was rebuilt on the same site in 1870 and united with the National Society . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | This report was commissioned and published by the National Council on Government Accounting ( NCGA ) in the USA . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |