Example sentences of "national [adj] [noun pl] ' and " in BNC.
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1 | The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 . |
2 | His name was Joseph Havelock Wilson , the year was 1887 and he made clear his ambition by grandiosely entitling his new organisation the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland . |
3 | Apart from himself , " only one man turned up — Frank Foley by name and I enrolled Foley as a member after I had enrolled myself , so that there were then two members of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain " . |
4 | Whether anything at all had been salvaged out of the wreck of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was still questionable . |
5 | The Sixth Annual General Meeting of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was held , as would normally have been expected , at the end of October 1894 in a mood of retrenchment and with threats from Wilson , now designated general president , and Robert McBride , recently created general secretary , that they would no longer tolerate " the underhand and carping pettiness of branch officials " and their " present lax and disorderly method of conducting the business of the union " and would resign if the situation did not improve . |
6 | " One summer 's morning in 1894 the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was wound up ; its leaders then adjourned for lunch and a drink , re-entering the building in the afternoon to start a new union under a slightly different name " . |