Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [art] national [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demonstrators ripped up the national flag amid shouts of ‘ Yesterday Timisoara , today Bucharest . ’ |
| 2 | By 1953 , however , with Conservative rural constituencies pressing their MPs for a rural electrification subsidy , and the Minister looking more favourably on capital expenditure for this purpose , the Area Board chairmen hammered out a national plan for rural electrification , which was finally agreed at an extended and controversial meeting at a country hotel in Moretonhampstead in 1953 . |
| 3 | On Feb. 23 Menem ruled out a national state of emergency , describing the looting as " isolated incidents " encouraged by " extremists " . |
| 4 | The struggle for survival is all that he knows : ‘ When we were in charge during the riots , ’ he says ‘ we pulled down the national flag outside the supermarket . |
| 5 | Soldiers again briefly took over the national radio station on Dec. 15 to broadcast their demands . |
| 6 | Like the bomb which blew up a national airline flight last week , killing all 107 aboard , the bombing came in the shadow of a struggle between President Virgilio Barco and the lower house of congress to overturn emergency extradition procedures decreed by Mr Barco against traffickers wanted for trial in the US . |
| 7 | When Bishop Compton of Lichfield carried out a national survey in 1676 , it was estimated that five percent of the county 's population were ‘ sectaries ’ . |
| 8 | The controversies surrounding severe mental handicap which began in the early 1980s sparked off a national debate which continues today . |
| 9 | In September last year , President Ershad set up a national committee which , according to its own press release , intends to ‘ restore honour and dignity to the tribal peoples ’ by withdrawing the army , banning further immigration and returning the land which had been ‘ illegally and fraudulently ’ seized . |
| 10 | In 1987 the Department of the Environment set up a national review of homelessness to look at the implementation of the law relating to homelessness and to consider whether it needed changing . |
| 11 | In April 1921 fifty delegates from England and Wales set up a national organization , the National Unemployed Workers ' Committee Movement ( NUWCM ) , with Wal Hannington as national organizer . |
| 12 | It was in 1975 that Congress made the SEC set up a National Market System for securities , which required efficient execution of transactions , fair competition among broker-dealers and the availability of price quotes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Brazil set up the National Bank for Economic and Social Development ( BNDES ) in the 1950s . |