Example sentences of "member of the national " in BNC.

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1 The four members of the National Police were arrested in June 1990 .
2 Members of the National Union of Teachers in Hackney and Tower Hamlets have voted , by a 95 per cent majority , to refuse to teach classes of more than 30 pupils .
3 But strange people , outcasts from public cinemas , can become members of the National Film Theatre by anonymous postal application .
4 As aged members of the National Assembly — some in wheelchairs , others with canes — vote a new six-year term for President Lee Teng-hui , one student slogan reads : ‘ If the old thieves do n't quit , democracy will never come . ’
5 The first was that they were legally members of the National Church by virtue of being Crown Subjects ; this was nonsense of course as the tolerance introduced after the ‘ Glorious Revolution ’ recognized Dissenters ' right to exist , even if it were a restricted right .
6 Last month members of the national parliaments of the 21 nations belonging to the Council of Europe called on ministers to look again at setting up a international agency .
7 Miss Vincent suggested people on a budget should contact members of the National Association of Funeral Directors ( NAFD ) , because they worked to a code of practice .
8 The most sophisticated rethinking was undertaken by members of the National Guilds League .
9 Members of the national and specialist press attended the launch of Head 's new Anatom System tennis shoe , which took place at the Roehampton Club during April .
10 Cavity wall insulation is one of those difficult jobs which has to be left to the experts and , ideally , to make sure the job is done properly , they should be members of the National Cavity Insulation Association .
11 Of the 29 members of the national executive , 12 come from the unions .
12 Until the recent amnesty it housed just under 3,000 inmates at 80 per cent capacity ; some 2,000 of these were former members of the National Guard .
13 In addition , since 1985 , the Red Cross has run seminars , with government agreement , for members of the National Penitentiary Programme and the police .
14 Until recently the most serious problem noted by outside observers was the approximately 1,000 former members of the National Guard who were held in Tipitapa and who refused to take part in the five-stage programme of rehabilitation .
15 In 1979 , when it came to power after a long and vicious civil war the new government detained between 7,000 and 8,000 former members of the National Guard .
16 Middle-class feminists , particularly members of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship , of which Eleanor Rathbone was the President , strongly supported family allowances largely on the grounds that it would undermine the concept of the family wage and thereby ( a rather optimistic thought ) pave the way for equal pay for equal work .
17 The article concludes with a declaration that British members of the National Front should identify themselves with the struggle of the Palestinians : ‘ We must draw inspiration from people such as the Palestinians who having lost so much more than us , still continue to fight for national sovereignty , and stubbornly refuse to relinquish their national identity . ’
18 This article was primarily directed at fellow members of the National Front .
19 The fact that several of the boys were active members of the National Front , for example , had an all too direct bearing on how they positioned themselves as narrators of the fight , even though they were anxious to characterize their role as merely voicing public opinion on the estate .
20 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 " .
21 Among possible sources of such information is the proposed follow-up in their early thirties of a sample of people born in 1958 — the members of the National Child Development Study , another national cohort study similar to that of the 1946 generation described above .
22 In Express Newspapers v. McShane , there was a dispute over pay between the proprietors of provincial newspapers and members of the National Union of Journalists .
23 The plaintiffs sought an injunction against the members of the national executive of the union to restrain them from inducing or procuring their members not to use PA copy .
24 Taking place some two years after the publication by the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching of a discussion paper on Community Languages : the Supply and Training of Teachers , the Conference revealed in the wide range of its workshops an enormous variety in the initiatives taken by members of the National Council .
25 After 1948 all workers had to be members of the national scheme and pay a fixed ‘ contribution ’ .
26 The main professional institutes and trade associations are members of the National Home Improvement Council ( NHIC ) .
27 Should a member wish to put forward a resolution for discussion at this meeting , is must be signed by not less than ten members of the National Trust who have been members since 1 January 1990 or earlier and must reach the Secretary at 36 Queen Anne 's Gate , London SW1H 9AS not later than 15 June .
28 Nominations must be supported by three members of the National Trust and must reach the Secretary not later than 15 June .
29 Members of the National Front , the opposition the Shah had crushed in the fifties and ignored ever since , leftists , rightists , monarchists , republicans , dentists , doctors , lawyers — almost anyone it seems could finally get into see His Imperial Majesty .
30 Members of the national Parliament charged with acting as ‘ watchdogs ’ on behalf of the citizens become engaged in acts of total deception as they pass the problems of their constituents up the line to ministers who are no longer in charge .
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