Example sentences of "for the national [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | After a general discussion of the planned Middle East peace conference [ see p. 38452 ] , support for the national rights of the Palestinians was reaffirmed and Israel 's intransigence and continuation of its settlement policy condemned . |
2 | It is due next month , just as her actor husband Alexander Hanson , 33 , starts rehearsals for the national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Aspects of Love . |
3 | The professional army is substituting for the national will . |
4 | Tim Clifford , for example , with responsibility for the National Galleries of Scotland and therefore on Grade 4 deserves more than many of the middle-range Keepers on Grade 5 . ’ |
5 | Tartan trews for the National Galleries of Scotland |
6 | Two weeks before the end of her trial , Winnie Mandela experienced what commentators treated as a major political setback when she was heavily defeated in elections for the national presidency of the ANC women 's league , which she had earlier been expected to win unchallenged . |
7 | YOU have to wonder what the Bush administration was looking for when it set out , in early 1989 , to find a new chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts . |
8 | In the President 's budget proposal for 1993 , while the President requested an $11.1 million increase to $189 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities , his NEA request remained unchanged at $175.9 million . |
9 | I think the government giving money for the National Endowment for the Arts and then trying to decide what 's art and what is n't is a mistake . |
10 | The American House of Representatives voted by 261 to171 on 23 July to maintain funding for the National Endowment for the Arts ( NEA ) to its current level of $176 million . |
11 | In establishing funding for the National Endowment for the Arts , the Senate on Sept. 30 , 1989 , approved an amendment prohibiting the use of federal funds " to promote , disseminate , or produce obscene materials " . |
12 | According to a report last year for the National Enterprise Board by PA International , a firm of consultants , Britain 's IT industry suffers from serious shortcomings . |
13 | For anyone involved in the game at the grass-roots level , the divisions books are invaluable — they give a pretty comprehensive run-down of every club in the country by division — and only cost £3.50 in their revised form , £9.99 for the National Leagues book . |
14 | ‘ Realist ’ films like these drew ecstatic praise from the local critics whose enthusiasm for the national cinema was a new phenomenon . |
15 | Having just won this year 's regional final , the agile-thinking Mr Pilkington is now in training for the national stakes in July . |
16 | A bathymetric survey of Finlaggan Loch , Islay , for the National Museum of Scotland , combined with investigations by a BGS diving team elucidated the complex form and history of the loch and the area around the settlement , and located a submerged causeway . |
17 | In addition , a bathymetric survey of Finlaggan Loch , Islay , which was made for the National Museum of Scotland , was combined with investigations by a BGS diving team . |
18 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
19 | Nonetheless , there have latterly been some notable donations from individuals in Britain : like the Sainsbury brothers ' new wing for the National Gallery and the Clore Foundation 's for the Tate ; Terence Conran 's £7m for the establishment of the Design Museum in Docklands , and Paul Hamlyn 's cheap weeks for children at the Royal Opera House . |
20 | THE National Art Collection Fund has every reason to be pleased with itself at having given £250,000 of the £10 million needed to acquire Lord Cholmondeley 's Holbein , Lady with a Pet Squirrel , for the National Gallery . |
21 | At the bottom of the garden is the huge Riding School , now an exhibition space for the National Gallery , and entered from Klárov Street . |
22 | Drawings by the Gandolfi , father and son , brought very strong prices , perhaps in anticipation of the forthcoming Gandolfi show for the National Gallery , Canada . |
23 | Humphrey Wine expressed his personal enthusiasm for acquiring more history and religious works but noted that one major difficulty was the paucity of such paintings in British private collections , which have traditionally been an important source of acquisition for the National Gallery . |
24 | Instead , at a press briefing , he made it clear that he would be looking to private benefactors to come to the rescue in extreme cases , and pointing to the successful purchases of ‘ Portrait of a lady with a squirrel and a starling ’ by Holbein for the National Gallery ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p.1 ) and Canaletto 's ‘ The Old Horse Guards , London , from St James 's Park ’ by Andrew Lloyd-Webber ( see The Art Newspaper No.19 June 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
25 | In 1991 they raised more than £3,000 for the national BBC appeal and , after taking a well-earned year off , organisers have set a target of £10,000 . |
26 | Newcomers to the game joined Olympic hopefuls at the weekend for the National Championships in Swindon . |
27 | the Tigersharks are one of the most successful clubs of its kind in the country … 20 have qualified for the national championships next month and in sixteen year old Jaime King they have one of the best breastrokers in the world … |
28 | The first nine in each of the four events will be selected for the national championships at Stoke on March 28 . |
29 | Spotting a void , however , the public relations person for the National Portrait Gallery steered me forward to fill it . |
30 | A spokesman for the National Farmers Union in Oxfordshire says members are encouraged to be very careful to avoid slurry leakage . |