Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the national " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also wants Bovril designated as the national football drink . |
| 2 | Much of the confrontation around oppressions arose through the national women youth worker conferences , which , as I have already mentioned , were predominantly organized by lesbians . |
| 3 | While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible . |
| 4 | During the Falklands War , for example , the Ministry of Defence quite blatantly manipulated press coverage in what it regarded as the national interest . |
| 5 | The former ferry steward , who rose through the National Union of Seaman before being elected MP for Hull , wears every thought and feeling on his sleeve . |
| 6 | But perhaps the biggest change in Europe in the late 1980S occurred amongst the national ‘ champion ’ suppliers of telecommunications equipment . |
| 7 | Letters of thanks are to be sent to those residents and organisations who helped with the national Spring Clean day , when areas of the town were cleared of rubbish . |
| 8 | Boxing : Colchester Boxing Club 's Andy Farrow showed his versatility when faced by a tricky opponent as he moved into the national schoolboys under-42 kilos semi-finals.Up against a spoiling boxer in the shape of Greg Algar of Eltham BC at Sandwich , Farrow persevered and kept himself out of trouble to win by the narrowest of points decisions.The judges awarded the fight to the 14-year-old Alderman Blaxill pupil 60–58 , 59–58 , 58–60 . |
| 9 | Eva Hubback taught economics briefly at Newnham in 1916–17 before becoming parliamentary secretary to the suffragists , in 1919 transformed into the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship . |
| 10 | More recently he has produced a series of pieces decorated with routed fluting , such as the box he entered in the national box competition and a citrus fruit squeezer with a range of ribbed heads . |
| 11 | Substantial changes to the original draft of the bill , notably the extension of all its provisions to cover Pomaks , had been secured partly as the result of agitation by several thousand Turks and Pomaks who demonstrated outside the National Assembly during the March 5 session . |
| 12 | Many of her remarks today were about her constituents in Gateshead , but she also referred to the national picture . |
| 13 | The party also nominated the head of state ( currently Mathieu Kerekou , who assumed office in 1972 and was most recently re-elected in August 1989 ) , who was elected by the Assembly for a five-year term and who presided over the National Executive Council . |
| 14 | Mobutu had intended that the Assembly , made up largely of members of his Mouvement populaire de la révolution ( MPR ) , should draft an alternative constitution to that proposed by the national conference in September [ see p. 39082-83 ] . |
| 15 | At the first level training will be primarily on-the-job but assistants can secure a vocational qualification obtained over two years validated by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications . |
| 16 | In the early hours of the following day , persons widely suspected to be Round Table supporters shot at and then ransacked and set on fire the offices on Rustaveli Prospekt used by the National Democratic Party and the National Independence Party ( both part of the so-called Congress Movement ) . |
| 17 | He then went to South Africa with the FA summer touring side and played for the national team in one of the representative games . |
| 18 | The 1981 census found that compared with the national average of 14% , inner urban areas have particularly heavy concentrations of lone parent families . |
| 19 | The anti-natal care I received under the National Health Service ( NHS ) obviously paid off because all my children were over 8 lbs and bouncing with health . |
| 20 | Yet on the other hand governments were quite willing to disregard clearly expressed public feeling when this seemed in the national interest . |
| 21 | The Bulgers are also quick to defend their home city from the criticism it received in the national media after James 's death . |
| 22 | Some adverse criticisms of the film 's content came from The National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures , which gave the film an A-4 rating for Catholics as ‘ morally objectionable for adults , with reservations ’ . |
| 23 | Assistance to purchase came from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , which gave £100,000 , the National Art Collections Fund , which gave £50,000 and £250,000 from the legacies of the late Keith Andrews , keeper of the Gallery 's print room from 1958 to 1985 , and his sister . |
| 24 | The ECJ established that goods which adhered to the national rules and regulations in the member state in which they were produced , should be able to be sold in any member state without need to adhere to the rules and regulations governing the production and sale of the good in the importing member state . |
| 25 | By 1988 firm closure programmes had been devised for 43 out of 178 hospital units for mentally ill patients in England surveyed by the National Schizophrenia Fellowship ( NSF ) . |
| 26 | On April 1st 1988 Llanthony Warehouse opened as the National Waterways Museum where the fascinating story of the inland waterways is told as never before … |
| 27 | When the ‘ deception ’ has gone far enough Radio 1 ’ s Simon Mayo introduces her to the crowd and miles the ecstatic applause for the benefit of the listening millions tuned into the national pop radio station taking the Roadshow live . |
| 28 | But there was a limit beyond which the furtherance of working-class interests conflicted with the national interest ; few were prepared to advance there in the first two years of the war . |
| 29 | Cotter seems to have enjoyed a fitfully co-operative relationship with Wilson until 1921 , when the NSFU seceded from the National Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 30 | WavePhore Inc unveiled at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention its new proprietary high speed TVT1 data wireless transmitter . |