Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] national " in BNC.

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1 Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness .
2 Explaining why the national forces which were raised did little good is not easy .
3 It is the sense of an England bloodily engaged in bashing out a national destiny from the tribal chaos which is best conveyed in this rich , poetic panorama .
4 Mounting debts , unconnected with Crisis Line , may leave the service without a home , wiping out a year 's work building up a national referral network.So Mr Morris wants a grant to continue the work .
5 So I think bringing out the national agreement , although it was a great development for the union , and these docked a lot of the work they had to beforehand had to do , it certainly did n't help the relations and the entries in the trade union movement .
6 ‘ We are also putting forward a national launch and will be shortlisting from a creative and consultative point of view to promote Westcountry to advertisers . ’
7 After the Rayner Report in 1981 , we were party to discussions with Sir John Boreham , the then Head of the Government Statistical Service , and others with a view to setting up a National Statistics Council .
8 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 .
9 Other key measures in the Queen 's Speech will be Bills setting up a national lottery ; ratification of the Maastricht treaty on European economic and political union ; and legislation paving the way for the privatisation of British Rail and the coal industry .
10 Some are now attempting to combat the isolation they feel by setting up a national body to represent their interests .
11 WHAT are the reasons for setting up a national lottery in favour of the arts ?
12 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 .
13 In 1864 Leslie realized a long-held ambition in setting up a National College of Music to rival the continental conservatoires .
14 The committee reported in October 19806 and came down in favour of setting up a national body , to be known as the Committee for Colleges and Polytechnics ( CCP ) which would devise a more rational system of national funding .
15 Finally , RACs should be asked to consider what the paper inelegantly described as ‘ resource availability and future coordination in respect of training for education management ’ , and consideration should be given to setting up a national advisory and consultative group .
16 Ms Dickinson also reported that discussions were currently taking place with various bodies , including the Arts Council , to investigate the possibility of setting up a National Children 's Book Council .
17 In the next few months , with British taxpayers ' money , we shall be setting up a national drugs intelligence unit in Czechoslovakia to try to intercept drugs coming overland .
18 In a statement broadcast on national radio , the soldiers , who appeared to be led by Capt. Valentine Strasser , announced that they were setting up a National Provisional Defence Council .
19 The government and the banks are considering setting up a national data system of business angels , it would probably have to be government funded .
20 The proposal for National Parks , however , received further support in the Dower report , published in 1945 , and that of the Hobhouse committee , which proposed setting up a National Parks Commission paid for out of public funds .
21 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 .
22 They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it .
23 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 .
24 President Blaise Compaoré continued to reject demands for a national conference , proposing instead a national reconciliation forum .
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