Example sentences of "is [adj] national [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that national Parliamentarians lost their powers to control the Brussels embryo government the moment their governments signed the Treaty of Accession on joining the Community . |
| 2 | The outcome is that national states , which exist to prevent life being poor , nasty , short , brutal , and solitary , are a match for the unreasonable person who commits conventional crimes , but ‘ are no match for the resources and size of … great corporations : General Motors could buy Delaware … if DuPont were willing to sell it ’ ( Nader and Green 1973 : 79 ) . |
| 3 | The first is that national interests can be guarded by way of intergovernmental agreements made in association with the Treaties . |
| 4 | The main difficulty faced by this couple is that national taxes take no account of the costs associated with living in the capital . |
| 5 | Another concern is that national governments may use competition policy as an instrument to protect domestic markets against overseas entrants , or to promote the interests of domestic producers in world markets ; this suggests the need to harmonize policy in different economies , and to seek international agreements to desist from using policy in a protectionist manner . |