Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] the national " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , mainly those of war time subjects and taken in the 30 's and 40's were given to the National Portrait Gallery , but the best were retained by the V. and A. |
| 2 | No details were given to the National Union or to the constituencies involved , so much hard work had to be done and much recrimination endured before the party could settle down to the campaign . |
| 3 | records were broken at the National Powerboat championships at fairford in Gloucestershire … winner was midlander Mark Rolls … |
| 4 | I remember when tennis premises extension plans were stopped by the National Trust . |
| 5 | The new grants were attacked by the National Union of Students as another cut in living standards when inflation was running at 7.7 per cent and housing costs , according to estimates from the committee of vice-chancellors and principals , had increased by 8.6 per cent . |
| 6 | Corton Beach were tipped in the national newspapers just before they left the OTC to start on the London Stock Exchange 's third market . |
| 7 | A total of 28,143 water pollution incidents were reported to the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) in 1990 , of which 658 ( 2.3 per cent ) were deemed as sufficiently serious to merit legal action . |
| 8 | Their allegations about what they called ‘ gay lessons ’ were reported in the national media and debated in Parliament . |
| 9 | All communist insignia were dropped from the national flag and state emblems . |
| 10 | For the areas in our study there was a high degree of completeness of ascertainment from 1968 onwards for children aged 0–14 because these areas are included in the data collected prospectively for the Northern Region Children 's Malignant Disease Registry and all these cases were included in the National Registry of Childhood Tumours . |
| 11 | Against most predictions the presidential and legislative elections held on Feb. 25 were won by the National Opposition Union ( UNO ) , whose presidential candidate , Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , obtained ( according to preliminary returns ) 55 per cent of the vote . |
| 12 | Presidential and legislative elections on Nov. 26 , 1989 [ see p. 37039 — the first fully free elections since 1971 ] , were won by the National ( Blanco ) Party ( Partido Nacional Blanco ) . |
| 13 | Of the 27 seats reserved for Fijian nationals of Indian descent , 14 were won by the National Federation Party ( NFP ) and 13 by the Fiji Labour Party ( FLP — which had also unsuccessfully fielded a number of candidates for Fijian seats ) . |
| 14 | The supply problem was further compounded by the fact that during the four years of war only 50,000 dwellings were added to the national stock . |
| 15 | These demonstrations were organised by the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , and their actions illustrate one of the major differences between responses to unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s and current responses . |
| 16 | In the 17-month period from March 1980 to August 1981 alone , 15 units were connected to the national grid . |
| 17 | In general , roses have played a part in everyday life from the time of the ancient Egyptians and Chinese , and have always been loved and treated with veneration , and repeatedly illustrated in herbals and paintings , they were adopted as the national flower in Britain from the Middle Ages . |
| 18 | Enquiries were made of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic where , however , there was a lengthy waiting list . |
| 19 | On 6 January 1992 the Standards of Work Based Competence for the hospitality and catering industry were agreed by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications . |
| 20 | The Spanish Government 's Telecommunications Office , having twice rejected all competitive bids for a national radio-paging licence , has finally granted this honour to Sistelcom Telemensaje , which will offer the first of three national radio-paging services that were envisaged under the National Telecommunications Plan . |
| 21 | The members of the Council were drawn from the national governments and had the task of counterbalancing the High Authority 's supranationalism . |
| 22 | Nomura Securities , Nikko Securities , Daiwa Securities and Yamaichi Securities were accused by the national tax authorities of having attempted to conceal the fact that they had made compensation payments to certain large clients who had made losses after taking their investment advice . |
| 23 | Particularly close links were forged with the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives , whose head office was in Northampton and whose Assistant Secretary in these years , Syd Robinson , was chairman of the regional WETUC , chairman of the Northamptonshire Federation and vice-chairman of the District . |
| 24 | The auction was conducted by Harry Phillips , auctioneer of New Bond Street , in July and August 1859 and raised some £95,000 in eighteen days : four pictures were bought by the National Gallery , and others by collectors of the calibre of William Douglas , eleventh Duke of Hamilton , Walter Scott , fifth Duke of Buccleuch [ qq.v. ] , the fourth Marquess of Hertford , and Baron James de Rothschild . |
| 25 | Ironically , given the state of collapse of communism across Eastern Europe and the avowed reformist intentions of the BCP , when Lukanov 's proposals for the composition of his government were approved by the National Assembly on Feb. 8 Bulgaria acquired for the first time in its history an all-communist government . |
| 26 | Those two special projects are not likely to help the providers of training in management to avoid the pitfalls which were noted by the National Development Centre for School Management Training in 1987 ( Wallace and Hall 1989 ) . |
| 27 | Heated letters were exchanged in the national and local press . |
| 28 | When these local authority schemes were standardized into the national housing benefit scheme , the numbers claiming a rent rebate or a rate rebate increased to 3.26 and 5.3 million , respectively ( Hansard , 13 July 1987 , col. 373 ) . |
| 29 | On a personal note , you will recall that Betsan and I first met you when we were employed by the National Trust at Plas y Rhiw . |
| 30 | As an example , consider the difficulty experienced by overseas companies wishing to begin direct operations in Japan , where applications were vetted by the National Planning Authority to ensure that they fitted the national economic plan of Japan . |