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

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1 No well more or less the branches had the opportunity to send in resolutions to the national agreement which were dealt with at conference .
2 In the years that followed the Brigade was called to a vast number of outside fires , until they eventually handed over control to the National Fire Service in 1942 .
3 With the approach of the second anniversary of the brutal suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations by the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , and no sign of the regime handing over power to the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) despite the latter 's sweeping electoral victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ; 37612 ] , there was a marked increase in tension and a renewal of violence at protests in early August .
4 Main guerrilla groups such as the FARC and the ELN , however , continued campaigns of economic sabotage and showed little interest in the government 's offer of peace talks or of following the example of the Maoist Popular Liberation Army ( EPL ) and Revolutionary Workers ' Party ( PRT ) which had demobilized and taken up seats in the National Constituent Assembly [ see p. 37958 ) .
5 They often pick up stories in the national news .
6 Slemen added : ‘ We accept we must take a back seat to the national side , but we are still determined to succeed where the Midlands and England B failed . ’
7 Two publicly-donated dogs recently came out tops in the national police dog trials at Cleveland Show .
8 The policy of increasing the role of the market sector has extended to contracting out services in the National Health Service and local government and the removal of the monopoly powers of solicitors ( over house sale conveyancing ) , or barristers appearing in the high court , opticians , and financial services via Big Bang in 1986 .
9 But in the South-West , where a further large power station would be particularly useful to help balance out supplies into the national grid , there were a number of possibilities .
10 Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht .
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