Example sentences of "was [vb pp] a national [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ridgeway which was designated a national trail by the Countryside Commission in nineteen seventy-two , runs from Overton Hill in Wiltshire Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire . |
| 2 | By early June the failure of an inquiry by Sir Edward Clark and of a group of ministers headed by Lloyd George to persuade the employers to agree to recognise the Federation and to negotiate with it on a joint board , began to bring nearer the prospect that the Transport Workers ' Federation National Executive would implement a recommendation by its Annual Conference that unless the joint board proposal was accepted a national strike would be declared . |
| 3 | The day was proclaimed a National Day of Struggle against World Arrogance , and at the Jamaran mosque , Tehran , theology students from Baneh " together with various strata of the people " were addressed by Ahmad Khomeini ( son of the late Ayatollah Khomeini ) . |
| 4 | As de Groot ( 1983 ) reports , 90 per cent of the lad area was declared a national park in 1959 and the Charles Darwin Research Station was established in 1960 on Santa Cruz Island , the aim of which was to undertake scientific research and to begin a programme of goat eradication . |
| 5 | Mount Apo , on the southern island of Mindanao , was declared a National Park in 1936 . |
| 6 | My Squadron 499 of the Air Training Corps became very successful , so much so that I was awarded a national honour , a Member of the British Empire , MBE ( Military ) . |
| 7 | Hannington returned to work as a lathe-turner and while serving as convener of shop stewards was elected a national organizer of the AEU in November 1941 . |