Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a national " in BNC.
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| 1 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
| 2 | MOVES to set up a national watchdog to monitor the integrity and accuracy of government statistics gained momentum yesterday when plans were announced for a meeting to draw up firm proposals , writes Rosie Waterhouse . |
| 3 | Attempts to set up a national printers " union in Scotland date from 1836 , but both the General Typographical Association of Scotland and its successor , the Northern District Board of the National Typographical Association , came to grief after only a few years . |
| 4 | ( B ) The conference had decided to set up a national assembly composed of 123 members based on the number of constituencies existing before 1969 with a speaker and two deputy speakers . |
| 5 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 6 | As the DES decided in 1980 to discontinue its approval arrangements for OND by 1982 and for other courses by 1981 , the Association of County Councils and the Standing Conference of Regional Advisory Councils agreed to set up a national committee , namely the NCCAE , to replace the role of the DES . |
| 7 | We need to invest in housing , to set up a national housing bank , to use all sectors . |
| 8 | On April 30 Lekhanya announced proposals to set up a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 9 | The three contending armed factions inside Liberia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bamako ( Mali ) on Nov. 28 , and a further agreement in Banjul ( The Gambia ) on Dec. 21 declaring their intention to set up a national conference within 60 days as a prelude to establishing their own interim government . |
| 10 | The Dutch government has helped to set up a national halons " bank " to ensure the most effective use of the chemicals . |
| 11 | France is planning to set up a national system for recovering and recycling packaging waste similar to that being implemented in Germany [ see ED 49/50 ; 56 ] . |
| 12 | It is the sense of an England bloodily engaged in bashing out a national destiny from the tribal chaos which is best conveyed in this rich , poetic panorama . |
| 13 | Caroline had never grown used to it but she had learned to ignore it , even here , in Italy , where admiring a woman openly seemed almost a national pastime . |
| 14 | By 1953 , however , with Conservative rural constituencies pressing their MPs for a rural electrification subsidy , and the Minister looking more favourably on capital expenditure for this purpose , the Area Board chairmen hammered out a national plan for rural electrification , which was finally agreed at an extended and controversial meeting at a country hotel in Moretonhampstead in 1953 . |
| 15 | Mounting debts , unconnected with Crisis Line , may leave the service without a home , wiping out a year 's work building up a national referral network.So Mr Morris wants a grant to continue the work . |
| 16 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |
| 17 | In the early 1900s , when boys were still reading the Alger tales , Henry Ford made his fortune mass-producing the Model T , and in the process became both a national folk hero and a potential presidential candidate . |
| 18 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 19 | Hence Mr Bush 's decision in 1989 to edge away from pure Reaganism by asking his energy secretary , James Watkins , to put together a national energy strategy . |
| 20 | King Hussein issued a decree on April 9 appointing a 60-member royal commission to draw up a national charter to regulate political life in Jordan . |
| 21 | A general election and the freezing of martial law in late 1989 and the appointment of a Royal Commission in April 1990 to draw up a national political charter indicated King Hussein 's intention to press ahead with his " democratic experiment " . |
| 22 | Britain 's first attempt to draw up a national balance sheet was in England in 1362 , under Edward III . |
| 23 | We will set up a National Qualifications Council to coordinate a single system of academic and vocational courses for 14–19 year olds , and a new Higher Education Standards Council to monitor quality in higher education . |
| 24 | It would set up a National Monuments Commission to care for ancient sites , institute small penalties for vandals who damaged them , and — most important — give the commission a right of purchase if the owner of a scheduled monument wanted to destroy it . |
| 25 | He expressed his hope that they would set up a national assembly and leadership council in exile to focus efforts around a single opposition leadership . |
| 26 | As well as organising conferences and courses the group also helped set up a national awards scheme and backed a number of arts publications . |
| 27 | set up a national network of registered depots for fridge and CFC disposal |
| 28 | We set up a national network of consumer advice centres : the Government closed them down . |
| 29 | To a procrastinating president and Congress the solution was clear : set up a national commission to study the problem . |
| 30 | On Feb. 23 Menem ruled out a national state of emergency , describing the looting as " isolated incidents " encouraged by " extremists " . |