Example sentences of "and the national [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The antismoking campaigns are run by Quit , a body established jointly by the Victoria health department , the Anti-Cancer Council , and the National Heart Foundation in 1985 . |
| 2 | The three groups competing for the right to develop the technology for high definition television are expected to sign an accord to pool resources to develop the standard , the Los Angeles Times reported : it said signing of the pact , which could accelerate introduction of HDTV , was imminent ; the groups involve General Instrument Corp and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Zenith Electronics Corp and AT&T Co , and Philips Electronics NV , Thomson SA , Compression Labs Inc and the National Broadcasting Co arm of General Electric Co . |
| 3 | Its liabilities therefore include ‘ public deposits ’ and these deposits are those of the Exchequer ( the government 's central cash account ) , the Inland Revenue , the National Loans Fund and the National Debt Commissioners . |
| 4 | Volunteer labour was needed to reduce the cost of the construction of 66 games facilities to $18,000,000 , at a time when Cuba 's international reserves were estimated to be less than $100,000,000 and the national debt stood at $7,000 million . |
| 5 | Public deposits include the National Loans Fund through which all transactions involving the National Debt ( see below ) pass through , the Exchequer ( tax revenues ) , the Paymaster General ( including the Exchange Equalisation Account — see below ) , and the National Debt Commissioners . |
| 6 | He recalled the Department of Economic Affairs and the National Enterprise Board . |
| 7 | Before the advent of the National Health Service in 1948 , prudent people belonged to the Infirmary League and one or other of the sick clubs run by Friendly Societies such as The Ancient Order of Foresters , The Oddfellows , The Rechabites and The National Deposit . |
| 8 | The exhibition is the initiative of the Australia-Japan Foundation in Australia and the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo . |
| 9 | Museums not to be missed are the Royal Scottish Museum in Chambers Street and the National Museum of Antiquities in Queen Street . |
| 10 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 11 | There are 14 people in Documentation and the department was established seven years ago when the old Royal Scottish Museum and the National Museum of Antiquities merged to become the National Museums of Scotland . |
| 12 | Displays are from some of the country 's leading museums , including the British Museum , Oxford 's Ashmolean Museum and the National Museum of Scotland . |
| 13 | SPACELAB , Europe 's first major voyage aboard America 's space shuttle , will probably hobble through its paces at less than full capacity , according to scientists involved in the project and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration . |
| 14 | Major voluntary organisations like MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship work alongside these groups , both locally and nationally , and have adapted their own structures to represent users more effectively . |
| 15 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 16 | Of these there were the International Federation of Stewards , Seamen and Firemen ( 1890- ? ) , the National Independent Seamen 's and Firemen 's Association in Liverpool ( 1892–1895 ) , the National Seamen 's Protection and Benefit Society of Great Britain and Ireland in Cardiff ( 1903–1905 ) and the National Boarding Masters ' and Seamen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland 1904–1907 ) . |
| 17 | The lobby received widespread support from both churches and secular organisations , with messages of support for CNHC being received from amongst others the CBI , House Builders Federation and the National Federation of Housing Associations . |
| 18 | Information was also given by the Friends of Cathedral Music , the Cathedral Organists ' Association , the Choir Schools ' Association and the National Federation of Cathedral Old Choristers ' Associations . |
| 19 | The new government was composed of representatives from an alliance between the multiracial Fiji Labour Party and the National Federation Party which was closely allied to the interests of those of Indian extraction who slightly outnumbered the Melanesian population . |
| 20 | Fiji Labour National Federation Parties , an opposition coalition composed of the Fiji Labour Party ( est. 1985 ) and the National Federation Party ( est. 1960 , Hanish Chandra Sharma pres . ) ; |
| 21 | Now I M P A C say that they believe there should be a dedicated pensions act to replace trust law and the National Federation Post Office and B T pensioners say trust law should continue to be the basis of pension funds . |
| 22 | THE CAMPAIGN against the use of plastic bullets by the police , which was launched this week by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science and the National Council for Civil Liberties , comes just in time to fight a new ‘ technological fix ’ on offer from the Ministry of Defence — a rapid-fire gun designed for riot control . |
| 23 | Two organisations which can help are The National Council for the Divorced and Separated and the National Council for One Parent Families ( see box ) . |
| 24 | Volunteers can also be contacted sometimes through the local authority social services department , and the local branches of the Women 's Royal Voluntary Services , the National Council of Social Services , Age Concern ( Old People 's Welfare ) and the National Council for the Single Woman and her Dependants , whose addresses can all be found in the telephone directory or at the Public library . |
| 25 | She estimates that the NVALA has the block support of organisations totalling up to three million people and , in defence of the NVALA 's ‘ mandate ’ , points to the memberships of the British Humanist Society and the National Council for Civil Liberties ( now Liberty ) which she quotes as standing at 2,000 and 6,000 respectively . |
| 26 | Anti-fascists argued that whoever was to blame for the violence , the police and courts treated them more harshly , and the National Council for Civil Liberties certainly produced reliable testimony to back up those claims . |
| 27 | A much more specific fear was that young people would be provoked into imitative crime by the daring exploits witnessed on the screen , and the National Council of Public Morals addressed itself with particular vigour to the belief ‘ that the picture house is responsible for the increase in juvenile crime , and that boys are often led to imitate crimes ( larceny or burglary ) which they have seen in the pictures , or to steal money that they may pay for admission , . |
| 28 | There is scope for a thesis of sorts on the distinction between the Commission on Instructional Technology 's definition : " Instructional technology means the media born of the communications revolution which can be used for instructional purposes alongside the teacher , the textbook and the blackboard " ( AVI , April 1970 : 89 ) ; and the National Council for Educational Technology 's definition , for the UK , of educational technology : " the development , application and evaluation of systems , techniques and aids to improve the process of human learning . " |
| 29 | It is being organised in conjunction with several Brazilian institutions including the health secretariat of the municipality of Porto Alegre , the State Secretariat of Health of Rio Grande do Sul , the faculty of medicine of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul , and the National Council of Municipal Secretaries of Health . |
| 30 | A member of the Eugenics Education Society , the Clerical and Medical Committee of the BMA — where he campaigned for a stronger moral lead from the profession — and the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease , he moved freely between religious , political and scientific spheres . |