Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] national [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soldiers again briefly took over the national radio station on Dec. 15 to broadcast their demands . |
| 2 | Annual General Meetings are attended by several thousand employee shareholders and ( in contrast to the normally sedate company AGM in some discreet City hall ) NFC has to take over the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham or the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 3 | I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After the Rayner Report in 1981 , we were party to discussions with Sir John Boreham , the then Head of the Government Statistical Service , and others with a view to setting up a National Statistics Council . |
| 11 | Successive government reports since the late 1930s had recommended setting up a national film bank , but it was only in the wake of the 1948 production crisis that the government seriously contemplated making funds available to the industry . |
| 12 | In the next few months , with British taxpayers ' money , we shall be setting up a national drugs intelligence unit in Czechoslovakia to try to intercept drugs coming overland . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We need to invest in housing , to set up a national housing bank , to use all sectors . |
| 16 | Britain 's first attempt to draw up a national balance sheet was in England in 1362 , under Edward III . |
| 17 | The proposal for National Parks , however , received further support in the Dower report , published in 1945 , and that of the Hobhouse committee , which proposed setting up a National Parks Commission paid for out of public funds . |
| 18 | On April 30 Lekhanya announced proposals to set up a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The government and the banks are considering setting up a national data system of business angels , it would probably have to be government funded . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As well as organising conferences and courses the group also helped set up a national awards scheme and backed a number of arts publications . |
| 23 | However , in mid-1940 , just about the time of Dunkirk — but quite unconnected with it expansion of the milk supply to children took on a new urgency as the Ministry of Food belatedly worked out a national food policy for an island race threatened by the submarine . |