Example sentences of "[noun] of a national [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | and that 's what and I completely the checkout girl because I , I know her quite well , we always have to guess the same one , we have a bit of a laugh and I said do you want to be erm part of a national survey on s this English er on spoken English and she said oh , alright , so I said there you are your on |
| 2 | Two bodies were set up in October 1990 to press for the introduction of multiparty democracy and the convening of a national conference on the country 's political future . |
| 3 | The relationship between the council tax and people 's ability to pay it was always shaky , and the imposition of a national band on London will make it even weaker . |
| 4 | On April 6 the Sejm voted , by 268 votes to one with two abstentions , to restore May 3 ( the anniversary of the proclamation of the 1791 constitution ) as the country 's national day ; and it approved , by 182 votes to 56 , with 39 abstentions , the cancellation of a national holiday on July 22 ( the anniversary of the 1944 Lublin Manifesto marking the establishment of Communist rule ) , despite an appeal by Jaruzelski . |
| 5 | Among the government 's green priorities are : the introduction of some form of energy tax , along the lines of EC proposals [ see ED 59/60 ] ; the promotion of recycling through new waste laws ; and the establishment of a national policy on water supply , usage and treatment . |
| 6 | Furthermore , if some Branches struck and called on others to back them , that support could be ensured by picketing the workplaces of those who were to be persuaded : Scargill was strong in his insistence that miners do not cross picket lines formed by other miners , but he was eventually defeated by both the unwillingness of an increasingly large body of miners ( especially those working in Nottinghamshire , see below ) to disregard this advice in the absence of a national ballot on strike action , and the government 's preparedness to counter the pickets by mass policing and other tactics which limited the freedom of movement of perceived would-be pickets ( Fine and Millar , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | On July 18 the Federal Assembly approved a bill to permit the calling of a national referendum on the future shape of Czechoslovakia ( i.e. on the possibility of a republic seceding from the federation ) . |
| 8 | These first steps towards a national network of police computers are going ahead even though many senior policemen are concerned with the lack of a national policy on police computers . |