Example sentences of "[vb past] the national [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Maoist Sendero Luminoso guerrilla group sabotaged the national electricity grid on April 6 . |
| 2 | At least Dunwoody made the National field . |
| 3 | But it made the national press because Arthur was up there and there was a bit of shouting and scuffling . |
| 4 | Labour made the National Health Service a major issue , and considerable media debate arose after a Labour party political broadcast on March 24 featuring the plight of a young girl needing specialist hospital treatment . |
| 5 | What kind of people owned the national press ? |
| 6 | Who , then , owned the national press in 1945 ? |
| 7 | The large issues about press concentration concerned the national sector and the incorporation of the press with other media and financial interests . |
| 8 | The crucial decision , indeed , concerned the National Manure Company ( Robson , 1954 ) . |
| 9 | The church which Kinloch also provided has in its churchyard a flagstaff from which permanently flies the saltire or St Andrew 's cross , floodlit at night , recalling the vision of a white cross against blue sky which supposedly inspired combined Pictish and Scottish forces to victory against the invading King Athelstan and later became the national flag . |
| 10 | It became the National Arboretum for Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Versions of the recently introduced song God Save Great George Our King were now heard on all sides ; a little later the text was finalised and it became the national anthem . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly the impetus for what became the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches ( normally called the National Free Church Council ) came from a Congregationalist , J. Guinness Rogers . |
| 13 | The Council for Civil Liberty , which later became the National Council for Civil Liberty , fulfilled much the same function for mainly middle-class people interested in this subject , and worried by the threat made by fascism to cherished freedoms . |
| 14 | Ten years later , it became the National Institute of Arthritis , Diabetes , Digestive and Kidney Diseases . |
| 15 | Whether then Berlin became the national capital would be a matter for the German people to decide . |
| 16 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 17 | On the first day of the war the prime minister , Yildirim Akbulut , asked the national assembly not only to sanction the use of the bases for American bombing raids but also to allow the Turkish armed forces themselves to go on the offensive . |
| 18 | Last month , Peter Brooke , Secretary of State for National Heritage , announced the National Lottery Bill . |
| 19 | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , in January [ see p. 38710 ] was formed on Feb. 13 under the chairmanship of Col. Mohammed al-Amin Khalifah ; it met for the first time on Feb. 24 in the building which formerly housed the National Assembly — the elected parliament overthrown by Bashir in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 20 | But this has only happened since we got the national agreement . |
| 21 | But since we got the national agreement in nineteen forty seven the same interest was n't in the trade union movement . |
| 22 | Out of this alliance of the state with capital , dictated by necessity , arose the national citizen class , the bourgeoisie in the modern sense of the word . |
| 23 | Later on Dec. 17 Fabius requested the National Assembly to convene a special session to vote on his indictment , which he said he himself would vote for . |
| 24 | Conservator Nathan Stolow , who contributed a chapter to the National Gallery 's own guide to art transport , has called for public accounting of the way in which the paintings were prepared and restored for travel and attacked the National Gallery for creating an exhibition advisory committee composed of officials from the tour 's participating institutions . |
| 25 | On the one hand , it sought the national renewal that the Resistance and de Gaulle himself had talked about — a more egalitarian , modern , and productive society and a new republic . |
| 26 | The Charter suspended the National Assembly and the country 's sole political party and is to remain effective " until new democratic institutions are established " . |
| 27 | The Charter suspended the National Assembly and the country 's sole political party and is to remain effective " until new democratic institutions are established " . |
| 28 | To get her gold she took up bell ringing , did a lot of swimming , helped the National Trust clear up after the 1988 hurricane , and completed a 50 mile long trek in Glencoe in four days . |
| 29 | If somebody entered the National Gallery and defaced a Gainsborough they would be prosecuted . |
| 30 | The word ‘ deadline ’ entered the National Certificate results vocabulary for the first time at the end of last session . |