Example sentences of "[verb] up the national [noun sg] " 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 | Demonstrators ripped up the national flag amid shouts of ‘ Yesterday Timisoara , today Bucharest . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Brazil set up the National Bank for Economic and Social Development ( BNDES ) in the 1950s . |