Example sentences of "of [art] national [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The connection of deafness with the Dukes of Devonshire persists to this day : the 11th Duke is Patron of the National Deaf Children 's Society , and also of the Royal School for the Deaf , Derby . |
| 2 | Margaret Kennedy , coordinator of the National Deaf Children 's Society Keep Deaf Children Safe campaign , said : ‘ There are 360 000 children with disabilities in the UK . |
| 3 | Apart from himself , " only one man turned up — Frank Foley by name and I enrolled Foley as a member after I had enrolled myself , so that there were then two members of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain " . |
| 4 | Whether anything at all had been salvaged out of the wreck of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was still questionable . |
| 5 | The Sixth Annual General Meeting of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was held , as would normally have been expected , at the end of October 1894 in a mood of retrenchment and with threats from Wilson , now designated general president , and Robert McBride , recently created general secretary , that they would no longer tolerate " the underhand and carping pettiness of branch officials " and their " present lax and disorderly method of conducting the business of the union " and would resign if the situation did not improve . |
| 6 | Our second decision concerned Mrs Kate Duncan who , as a member of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , wanted to give a speech outside an unemployment training centre . |
| 7 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |