Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] national [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 's first solar-powered lavatories have switched on the National Trust to cutting its £2.5 million power bill by using more ‘ green energy ’ . |
| 2 | They would ally themselves with the united Labour forces and afford the possibilities of developing a mighty Peoples Front which will bring down the National Government . " |
| 3 | Four or five years before , the Communist Party would have advocated revolution " to bring down the National Government " . |
| 4 | The struggle for survival is all that he knows : ‘ When we were in charge during the riots , ’ he says ‘ we pulled down the national flag outside the supermarket . |
| 5 | The administrator phoned the estate owner and brought in the National Guard who captured the leaders of the union from their homes one night . |
| 6 | One of his tasks will be to bring in the national lottery . |
| 7 | Soldiers again briefly took over the national radio station on Dec. 15 to broadcast their demands . |
| 8 | Annual General Meetings are attended by several thousand employee shareholders and ( in contrast to the normally sedate company AGM in some discreet City hall ) NFC has to take over the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham or the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 9 | The controversies surrounding severe mental handicap which began in the early 1980s sparked off a national debate which continues today . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Demonstrators ripped up the national flag amid shouts of ‘ Yesterday Timisoara , today Bucharest . ’ |
| 12 | It forbade a number of unfair practices used by employers to block union development , and set up the National Labor Board to sort out problems and act as " umpire " between labour and management . |
| 13 | He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 14 | They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it . |
| 15 | Brazil set up the National Bank for Economic and Social Development ( BNDES ) in the 1950s . |
| 16 | Under the 1961 Constitution an executive President is directly elected for a five-year term , as are the 49-member Senate and 196-member Chamber of Deputies which together make up the National Congress . |
| 17 | The Royal College of Nursing is to lobby Parliament on 24 October in protest at the Government 's plans to shake up the National Health Service , the union has announced . |
| 18 | It is to be hoped that the Secretary of State , when he sets up the national appraisal arrangements to which he is committed , will build on this goodwill . |
| 19 | Peter Hunter , secretary of the NALGO Pro-Life Group , at a recent meeting of NALGO supporters told of the disgraceful waste of union resources which are used to prop up the national Abortion Campaign , to which NALGO is affiliated . |
| 20 | To operate the service Sistelcom has set up a National Management and Operations Centre , seven regional centres , which receive the calls , process , multiplex and send them to the central system , a series of base stations , six 9,600bps tie lines to connect the national centre and the regional centres , and signal distribution tie lines via satellite . |
| 21 | About three years ago , I was left some money by a relative , so I was able to start up a national welfare charity for Labradors — something I 'd always wanted to do . |
| 22 | His arrest came just hours after he taunted police , ringing up a national newspaper to say he was the ‘ new Lord Lucan ’ and would never be caught . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Dennis and his friend Tommy want to stop this by setting up a National Centre where doctors and medical scientists can undertake research to prevent premature birth . |
| 25 | Successive government reports since the late 1930s had recommended setting up a national film bank , but it was only in the wake of the 1948 production crisis that the government seriously contemplated making funds available to the industry . |
| 26 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | ( 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |