Example sentences of "a [noun] for a national " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given this premise , we should not be surprised to find the police are in the forefront of support for proposals such as the introduction of identity cards ; it was not surprising to find the 1988 Superintendents ' Association conference not only supporting this motion , but arguing for the creation of twenty-four hour armed patrols throughout the country and making a plea for a national motorway squad . |
| 2 | A proposal for a National Institute for the Environment to coordinate and fund scientific research on the environment , modelled on the National Institutes of Health , may soon gain the support of the National Academy of Sciences . |
| 3 | Its lack of a well-developed indigenous middle class to act as a focus for a national identity meant that the failure of the nobility to resist partition was seen as exactly that : not a failure of the Polish people , but a failure of the Polish nobility . |
| 4 | The five research nurses at Abingdon Hospital , near Oxford , independently came up with the idea that there was a need for a national representative body . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a need for a national investigation into why these figures seem to come out in this way , not just within Strathclyde , but within Britain , ’ he said . |
| 6 | On March 26 the South African Council of Churches issued a call for a national council of " leaders of the affected communities " to meet within a week , arguing that the violence had gone beyond the control of the ANC and Inkatha . |
| 7 | Central to the committee 's 50 recommendations was a call for a national forestry strategy , to assess what types of forests were required , and how best to manage existing woodland . |
| 8 | The shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , was given a polite , if muted , response when he called the sackings an affront to decency and justice but stopped short of endorsing a call for a national strike . |
| 9 | Bill Naysmith , Group Design Director , has been nominated and chosen as a finalist for a National award ‘ The Prince Philip Prize ’ for the Designer of the Year . |
| 10 | It is perhaps ironic that a financier whose fortunes had foundered on the unreliability of the royal credit should have busied himself three years after his bankruptcy with devising a project for a national bank whose impracticability his own fate had spectacularly demonstrated . |
| 11 | The Wood Green Animal Shelter ( who kindly took on the SHE Dog Club when it grew too big for a magazine to handle ! ) run a highly successful registration scheme which , for those in favour of a mandatory system , could be a model for a national scheme . |
| 12 | It is hoped that in the future the computerised detective will be used as a model for a national profiling scheme . |