Example sentences of "the national [noun sg] of [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This development is significant for two reasons : it increases considerably the national provision of courses for further education teachers leading to a professional qualification ; and it gives the polytechnics and colleges of higher education a large and growing stake in an enterprise that has hitherto been very largely confined to the colleges of education ( technical ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1925 ( the year in which Eleanor Rathbone became its president ) the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship ( a suffragette organisation ) passed a resolution in favour of a state-paid scheme of flat rate family allowances . |
| 4 | Eva Hubback taught economics briefly at Newnham in 1916–17 before becoming parliamentary secretary to the suffragists , in 1919 transformed into the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship . |
| 5 | She also became involved in the work of the family endowment committee and , with Eleanor Rathbone [ q.v. ] , introduced the idea of family allowances to the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship ( as the NUWSS was renamed in 1919 ) . |
| 6 | After World War I , Eleanor Rathbone , President of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship ( NUSEC — formerly Millicent Garret Fawcett 's constitutional suffrage society ) campaigned for a family allowance that would provide a ‘ wage ’ for the mother as well as an allowance for the children , hoping that this proposal would unite women of all social classes . |
| 7 | The 1927 Bill was sponsored by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship ( NUSEC ) , the main organised feminist group of the inter-war years.l However , mainstream feminists continued to believe that paid employment was incompatible with motherhood . |
| 8 | Many existing maps concentrate on urban areas , but the National Register of Maps for the Visually Handicapped in London ( 071–873 2599 ) is building up a library of rural maps too . |