Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] national " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I must join some service which is considered sufficiently hazardous , because when I am conscripted I can say I do n't wish to fight but I am ready to do my part in National Service . |
| 2 | I am both pleased and excited about my appointment as National Development Officer , but realise that there is a considerable challenge to be met , protecting existing classes , developing new ones , maintaining good working relations with all administrative and governing bodies and most importantly supporting the Society 's most valuable asset — its Teachers . |
| 3 | ‘ A snap of their slogan in national newspapers would be worth tens of thousands of pounds to them and our costs are peanuts next to that , ’ said Andrew . |
| 4 | The department has a multi-cultural staff from Polish to Italian to French , all able to pass on their expertise for national dishes when need be . |
| 5 | In fact , one might say that the article , with its defence of National Front thinking and its attack on liberalism , is reinforcing the value that one should be unprejudiced , for both the attack and the defence are based , in essence , upon deciding who should be called ‘ prejudiced ’ . |
| 6 | Both get their main support from specific areas and confuse the interests of their base with national interests , and thus , party and nation . |
| 7 | Though highly political in the later years of colonial rule , Mambo Leo was now largely apolitical , and its coverage of national affairs tended to be non-controversial . |
| 8 | Education again provides a good example : central government has a strong interest in the provision of an education service which meets its perception of national priorities ; local people , especially parents , expect to have considerable influence over the education provided for their children . |
| 9 | A ‘ new illegal Party ’ , it was somewhat picturesquely alleged , seemed in the process of creation out of all those — evidently disparate individuals and groups — united in their opposition to National Socialism and forming on that basis their assessment of domestic politics and the war situation . |
| 10 | The 12 electricity distribution companies are likely to test the market by seeking buyers for 20 p.c. of their holding in National Grid . |
| 11 | As to ‘ its effect upon national character ’ , Pearson thought that ‘ whether we are changing in the direction of a higher or lower morality is … the point that is most really at issue ’ . |
| 12 | Bishop Bell , who commissioned the play , was an influential British churchman who had consistently supported the German Confessing Church in its opposition to National Socialism . |
| 13 | By the end of March it had been announced that the coup organizers had disbanded their Council of National Reconciliation ( CRN ) and that a 25-member Transition Committee for the Salvation of the People ( CTSP ) had been established , with 10 military and 15 civilian members . |
| 14 | Germans seize their moment of national opportunity Commentary . |
| 15 | The county council does feel comfortable about the compliance of its alteration with national planning guidance . |
| 16 | Also , in practice , the program — because of its diet of national polls — is likely to underestimate the effects of localised pockets of voting strength . |
| 17 | The bank makes full banking facilities available to both personal and commercial customers through its own branches and its membership of National Westminster Group . |
| 18 | Apart from her post as national president , which ends three months from now , Mrs Richardson has links with our Diocese as chairman of the West Yorkshire District of her Church . |
| 19 | There will be some who may initially enjoy the appearance of their name in national and local newspapers , though even they , initially unused to the implications of media publicity , may come to regret their decision . |
| 20 | The new obsessions , which were already making their mark in national politics abroad with parties such as the Greens in Germany , would take over . |
| 21 | They will maintain firm control of public spending with the aim of keeping its share of national income on a downward trend over time . |
| 22 | In this case , between 1960 and 1975 , the dominant and bureaucratic-technical classes increased their share of national income by about 1 per cent , at the expense of the informal sector , which experienced a decrease of 1.3 per cent . |
| 23 | The bottom 40 per cent of households saw their share of national income fall from 8.7 per cent in 1981 to 6.0 per cent in 1986 . |
| 24 | Covering most of Strathclyde , Tyne and Wear , Durham , Cleveland , Merseyside , West and Mid Glamorgan , these SDAs sustained twice their share of national redundancies in these data . |
| 25 | Communication and Society : The Philippine Context is a compilation of papers on diverse aspects of communication and their relationship to national development . |
| 26 | At a CPSU congress in early July 1990 a reorganization of the party 's leading bodies confirmed the curtailment of their role in national political decision-making [ see pp. 37299 ; 37616 ] . |
| 27 | The first major theme is the effects of industrial innovation and diffusion on international patterns of trade and growth , including the continuing development of new databases on technological activities , comparisons of innovative activity in different countries and its impact on national economic performance and the economics of innovation and international trade ( G Dosi , K Pavitt , L Soete and P Patel ) . |
| 28 | The older , rusticated students were moved by appeals to their sense of national duty ( as well as by threats ) , while the younger students wished to revive anti-Japanese feeling because of what they perceived as the ‘ second Japanese invasion ’ . |
| 29 | This would allow the identification of implants that are doing badly and would allow individual units to compare their performance with national figures . |
| 30 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |