Example sentences of "[adj] national [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mountain ranges make sensible national frontiers and despite one or two kinks along the way , the Pyrenean watershed divides France neatly and conclusively from Spain . |
| 2 | But enhanced National Savings rates will be a threat to societies ' cashflows and any upturn in the housing market will exacerbate it . |
| 3 | An interim military-civilian National Council of Government was established under Lt.-Gen. |
| 4 | The most inspired included ‘ East Bloc 'n' Roll ’ ( The Listener ) , ‘ Three Steppes To Heaven ’ ( NME ) , ‘ Ukraine , You Saw , You Conquered ’ ( Record Mirror ) and , perhaps best of all , with its double pun , ‘ That 's My Favourite National Dress ’ ( Sounds ) . |
| 5 | In these respects , the islands share the common attributes and problems of regions on the distant fringes of densely populated urban-centered economic and social national structures . |
| 6 | However , the only sizeable national job losses in services in the 1980s were in the public sector , chiefly in the railways and ports , industries associated functionally and locationally with the decline of heavy industry itself . |
| 7 | The inaugural Grand Finals of the Cellnet Singles Challenge — an enterprising national tennis tournament set up to boost competitive singles play in this country — were staged at Basingstoke 's sumptuous Centrecourt complex at the beginning of December , with some of the country 's leading club players competing for honours . |
| 8 | However , reliable national data on the impact of the age of father show that , for instance , in Hungary , infant mortality is also associated with paternal age . |
| 9 | The impressions gained from the WHO collaborative studies on the relationship between maternal age and the capability of fetus to survive the early and intermediately period of gestation are supported by more reliable national data from a European country . |
| 10 | The amendments , first endorsed at the meeting of Lebanese National Assembly deputies in Taif , Saudi Arabia , in October 1989 [ see p. 36986 for details of political provisions of Taif Accord ] , had again been endorsed on Aug. 21 when 51 deputies convened in Beirut . |
| 11 | The Lebanese national army moved into the Castle of St Louis in Sidon in 1985 . |
| 12 | The Palestinians were armed and the Lebanese were not ; and the Lebanese national army was too weak — both militarily and politically — to remove the Palestinians . |
| 13 | Maarouf Saad , the leftist mayor of Sidon , was fatally wounded in a fishermen 's demonstration and in further fighting the Lebanese national army — largely commanded , of course , by Christians — came into conflict with Muslim gunmen and the more radical of the PLO 's Palestinian guerrilla groups . |
| 14 | In Sidon , a sudden Syrian armoured thrust into the city had ended in disaster when Palestinians and Muslim members of the fragmented Lebanese national army — glorying in the name of the ‘ Lebanese Arab Army ’ — trapped the Syrian tanks in Riad Solh Street and destroyed every one , burning their crews alive inside . |
| 15 | In a report on Hrawi 's tour on June 10 , the ( Phalangist ) Voice of Lebanon radio stated that the President had been seeking Arab support for the implementation of the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] . |
| 16 | The plan was a further attempt to persuade the rival regime of Gen. Michel Aoun , the former Army C.-in-C. and self-declared interim Premier of Lebanon , to embrace the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] , and followed two recent efforts launched by France and the Vatican [ see p. 37548 ] . |
| 17 | The structure of the Lebanese National Covenant groaned again under the weight of these new pressures . |
| 18 | If solitary sailing in a dinghy is more your style , check out the Royal Yachting Association , which runs a five-level National Dinghy Certificate Scheme with courses available on inland and open water nationally . |
| 19 | How could the centre " maintain its administrative ties with the masses to ensure adequate national defense and tax collection ? " . |
| 20 | It is probably fair to say that you can not really hope to run an adequate national TV campaign in the UK for less than about £750000 ; or a national poster campaign for less than £250000 . |
| 21 | ( Medau Soc member ) and I each swam 100 lengths non-stop as ‘ the Medau Duo ’ in the British National Swimathon ( in aid of NSPCC , Red Cross , Spastics , and Sports Council Promoting Sport for People with Disabilities ) and raised £100 each in sponsorship money . |
| 22 | The Prime Minister could strengthen her growing reputation as a tough , determined champion of British national interests , one whose role in the transatlantic alliance was testimony to the growing influence of her nation after decades of consistent decline . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the British national championships at Newcastle saw their first upset when the England international Martin Bodimeade fell 9-5 , 9-2 , 9-3 in the second round to the Scottish No.2 , Colin Keith . |
| 24 | THE British National Championships at Crystal Palace at the weekend once again saw Wolverhampton dominate the proceedings , with their fighters Elvis Gordon , at heavyweight , Densign White , at middleweight , Fitzroy Davies , at light-middleweight , and Owen Pinnock the bantamweight all taking gold medals . |
| 25 | ROBERT OWEN , a largely unconsidered left-hander from Avon , became a surprise semi-finalist in the British National Championships for the second successive year at Newcastle yesterday . |
| 26 | THE British National Championships at Crystal Palace at the weekend once again saw Wolverhampton dominate the proceedings , with their fighters Elvis Gordon , at heavyweight , Densign White , at middleweight , Fitzroy Davies , at light-middleweight , and Owen Pinnock the bantamweight all taking gold medals . |
| 27 | for the past ten he 's dominated the world of barefoot … this weekend … he skies in the British national Championships which are being held at the Cirencester Club in the Cotswold water park … |
| 28 | Top British skiers Martin and Graham Bell suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of novice Macclesfield-born Gavin Forsyth in the downhill event at the British national championships in Tignes , France , yesterday . |
| 29 | BROTHERS Martin and Graham Bell — Britain 's leading World Cup skiers — continued their expected dominance at the British Land British National Championships in Tignes , France . |
| 30 | It 's , I , recur here to something I said in the broadcast I did earlier in this series , that a British national characteristic which distinguishes us very much from every Continental country , is our erm phobia about committing money and means to the state to spend for our common good . |