Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the national [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Demonstrators ripped up the national flag amid shouts of ‘ Yesterday Timisoara , today Bucharest . ’
2 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 .
3 Soldiers again briefly took over the national radio station on Dec. 15 to broadcast their demands .
4 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 .
5 I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority .
6 Brazil set up the National Bank for Economic and Social Development ( BNDES ) in the 1950s .
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