Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the national " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the early 1980s , unemployment in Sheffield had been below the national average for the whole of the post-war period . |
| 2 | You 're in the National Breakdown |
| 3 | The research is designed to investigate the changing organisation of service sector employment nationally , the particular impact of its expansion in East Anglia , where rates of growth have been above the national average , and to establish the consequence of this growth for class and gender relations in the two local labour markets of Norwich and Ipswich . |
| 4 | Quarries down the road at Ffestiniog are within the National Park , and expansion plans must be carefully thought out . |
| 5 | Undertaking the painting of heraldic devices such as squadron badges requires a licence from HMSO Crown Copyright as they are within the national domain . |
| 6 | Pursuing this laissez-faire policy may have been in the national interest , but it did n't seem to be in John 's or that of the other hostages . |
| 7 | ‘ What you observe there is that in the battleground seats , the seats where this election will be determined , Labour is doing even better than we are in the national , overall polls , ’ he said . |
| 8 | One boat is in the Hull Museum and the other two are in the National Maritime Museum , Greenwich . |
| 9 | The real take-home pay of both men and women can be clearly seen from the wage-books of firms like Oliver & Boyd or T. & A. Constable , which are in the National Library of Scotland . |
| 10 | Fine examples of his work are in the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Gallery , London . |
| 11 | Attendance at this meeting was small , due in part to the absence of teachers who are in the National Display Team and are performing that day in Edinburgh as guests of the S.W.K.F.A. We though of them and hoped that all was going well . |
| 12 | Tam Dalyell believes drug substitution to be against the national interest |
| 13 | On the 25th March 1993 Mr Howard updated the DoE guideline to planners thus ‘ it would be against the national interest to refuse planning permission for the extension of economic indigenous coal where the development can be carried out in an environmentally acceptable way . |
| 14 | Oh the thing in front of me it 's Malcolm Adams and I 'm with the National Association of British Steel Pensions . |
| 15 | These behavioural questions are much more important then the merely technical issues — and so it will be with the National Curriculum and all the other baggage of 1988 . |
| 16 | So it is proving to be with the National Curriculum . |
| 17 | Well the national account what you are saying is the national account if the work 's for is then responsible for all those accounts that happen to be from the national account manager . |
| 18 | One was not then justified in thinking and functioning in terms of what might be in the national interest , what might ultimately be a desirable development for NATO strategy or defence strategy . |
| 19 | Eden took refuge behind the usual claim that it would not be in the national interest to disclose how Crabb had drowned . |
| 20 | On this occasion Crabb was carrying out experiments in which the Admiralty had a peripheral interest , but it would not be in the national interest to detail them , and unfortunately he drowned and his body was swept out to sea . |
| 21 | The CBI table highlights the fact that local laws may apply to merger proposals , not only on competition grounds but also on other grounds , for example where it is deemed to be in the national interest to prevent foreign control in certain sectors such as maritime and air transport , banking and insurance . |
| 22 | ‘ You can not expect to be in the national squad unless you can prove that you are good enough , so I just have to continue the learning process , equip myself fully for the task , get a bit fitter and that , hopefully , will be at least half the battle ’ . |
| 23 | Bhutto denied the charges , although she refused to give details of how the funds were spent , saying that " such disclosure would not be in the national interest " . |
| 24 | ‘ We all know the Government 's policies to be right , to be in the national interest . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Ian Wright could be in the National Basketball Association , he did so much trash talking for 45 minutes , ’ Meola said . |
| 26 | Overall , about 18 per cent of all working women , but only 3 per cent of men , had earnings below the National Insurance threshold and so women were seven times more likely than men to be outside the National Insurance net ( Hakim , 1989 , p. 480 ) . |
| 27 | That should be on the national Exchequer , not on those locally who are trying to make ends meet . |
| 28 | Well it wo n't be on the national news I do n't suppose cos it comes under sports |
| 29 | Oh it 'll be on the national news because |
| 30 | Three of the UK 's privatised water companies are on the National Rivers Authority 's " top 10 " prosecution list , making them among the country 's most polluting companies in terms of court fines . |