Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] national [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ] .
3 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 .
4 ( 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 .
5 As the DES decided in 1980 to discontinue its approval arrangements for OND by 1982 and for other courses by 1981 , the Association of County Councils and the Standing Conference of Regional Advisory Councils agreed to set up a national committee , namely the NCCAE , to replace the role of the DES .
6 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 .
7 The three contending armed factions inside Liberia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bamako ( Mali ) on Nov. 28 , and a further agreement in Banjul ( The Gambia ) on Dec. 21 declaring their intention to set up a national conference within 60 days as a prelude to establishing their own interim government .
8 On April 30 Lekhanya announced proposals to set up a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution .
9 We need to invest in housing , to set up a national housing bank , to use all sectors .
10 The Dutch government has helped to set up a national halons " bank " to ensure the most effective use of the chemicals .
11 Attempts to set up a national printers " union in Scotland date from 1836 , but both the General Typographical Association of Scotland and its successor , the Northern District Board of the National Typographical Association , came to grief after only a few years .
12 Demonstrators ripped up the national flag amid shouts of ‘ Yesterday Timisoara , today Bucharest . ’
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them .
16 Britain 's first attempt to draw up a national balance sheet was in England in 1362 , under Edward III .
17 King Hussein issued a decree on April 9 appointing a 60-member royal commission to draw up a national charter to regulate political life in Jordan .
18 It would set up a National Monuments Commission to care for ancient sites , institute small penalties for vandals who damaged them , and — most important — give the commission a right of purchase if the owner of a scheduled monument wanted to destroy it .
19 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 .
20 We will set up a National Qualifications Council to coordinate a single system of academic and vocational courses for 14–19 year olds , and a new Higher Education Standards Council to monitor quality in higher education .
21 As well as organising conferences and courses the group also helped set up a national awards scheme and backed a number of arts publications .
22 To a procrastinating president and Congress the solution was clear : set up a national commission to study the problem .
23 set up a national network of registered depots for fridge and CFC disposal
24 We set up a national network of consumer advice centres : the Government closed them down .
25 As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident .
26 In addition , the researchers are using The Mercury 's coverage of national events and events outside Leicestershire in order to build up a national picture .
27 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 .
28 In recent months , Sir Keith has set up a national committee to explore some of these possibilities .
29 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 .
30 I 've a feeling one of the lads from Portsmouth or Sunderland could end up a national hero .
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