Example sentences of "of the national [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Over the five years of operation of the National Certificate employers and providers have indicated that , whilst the flexibility of the modular system is of great benefit , it would also be useful to be able to provide an additional separate certificate for a student who successfully completes a group of modules designed to meet the needs of a particular occupational area .
2 And so the long lease was dreamt up by Grand Metropolitan and taken up with enthusiasm by the rest of the national pub owners and brewers .
3 Third , as the powers of the national park authorities are limited to the normal development control procedures , agriculture is excluded , although it contributes so much to the valued cultural landscapes of the parks .
4 In addition , orders may define circumstances in which the application of the National Curriculum provisions to individual pupils might be modified or lifted for any foundation subject … .
5 At the same time , progress towards greater equality could be hampered by schools necessarily giving higher priority towards the development of the curriculum in the light of the National Curriculum changes in general .
6 The overriding criticism of the National Curriculum proposals was that it was not designed to achieve significant fundamental aims : it did not obviously focus upon ‘ great issues , principles and values ’ , or on the development of fundamentally important attitudes and skills , which educators , industrialists , and all those concerned with the welfare of society and the enrichment of the individual , would see as paramount .
7 The need for a review of teaching strategies in the light of the National Curriculum requirements is evident .
8 1990:48 ) : The introduction of the national curriculum requirements for primary science and technology emphasise the importance of primary/secondary liaison .
9 TEACHERS yesterday continued their boycott of the National Curriculum tests with up to 600,000 pupils spared three hours of maths exams .
10 Some of the national Sunday papers include magazine sections , which are edited quite separately from the newspapers themselves .
11 It could be argued , on a theoretical level , that that should have been a concern since the use of SSAPs by businesses means that the compilers of the national income accounts are presented with the same problem — but that is left to the statisticians to resolve .
12 The study has four main objectives : To identify those elements of the national space programmes of the European members of NATO which could contribute to a multilateral military space programme .
13 Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire , which must be one of the National Trust properties furthest from the sea , brought a whiff of sea breeze to the land-locked Midlands on 22 May .
14 The European Commission opened talks with the heads of the national telephone monopolies yesterday about its plans to deregulate telephone service across the Community by 1998 : after the two-day discussions , the Commission will decide whether to formalise proposals calling for and end to national monopolies over all call transmission ; the usual row is expected between free traders like the UK , the Netherlands and Denmark and opponents in France , Belgium and Italy , Reuter reports from Brussels ; France Telecom and Belgacom said the plans were too ambitious , the Dutch and British Telecommunications Plc indicated support ahead of the talks .
15 Dejean Belizaire , the president of the parliament , subsequently announced on Dec. 9 that Aristide 's return depended on his accepting one of the national consensus candidates for Prime Minister .
16 With the assistance of the National Art Collections Fund the museum has recently purchased a stained glass window made for the Avery Coonley Playhouse in Riverside , Illinois ( 1912 ) , featuring a geometric design based on balloons , confetti and American flags .
17 The institutions themselves succeeded in raising fifty per cent of the price of eleven out of the eighteen drawings and the support of the National Art Collections Fund , the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Foundation for Sport and the Arts has been crucial in raising most of the remaining moneys required .
18 Under the auspices of the National Art Collections Fund will be an exhibition of the Hogarth Collection of Puppets and Marionettes .
19 With the aid of the national art collections fund and other means , the galleries can raise other resources to acquire the finest works .
20 Another way of attracting more customers — apart from providing a better day-to-day service — would be to offer a higher , or different range of benefits on top of the national insurance benefits .
21 Furthermore you can establish a company pension scheme based solely upon the investment of the National Insurance contributions for no extra cost to the employer or employees .
22 A minimum contribution , equal to a part of the national insurance contributions paid by both employees and their employers , will be invested in a pension plan , and for this the employees will gain tax relief on their national insurance contributions .
23 The rest of the book surveys the different scientific disciplines and highlights specific projects , mostly work done in the united States at one or another of the national computer centres sponsored by the National Science Foundation .
24 The company reserves the right to veto or restrict the provision of additional facilities such as juke-boxes , fruit machines , pool tables , etc. , but does not specify from whom these must be hired or demand a proportion of the takings ( this attitude is in contrast to most of the national brewery companies and does something to explain why Palatine are regarded as good employers/landlords by their licensees ) .
25 The actual negotiations are still carded out by the various enterprise unions themselves and the role of the national union federations remains very limited .
26 The 1989 collapse of Keating 's California-based Lincoln Savings and Loan Association was the largest of the national thrift failures .
27 The Princess of Wales who 's patron of the national head injuries association Headway , told the conference that adequate resources for rehabilitation were essential .
28 Overhauling an industry that consumes $100 billion a year and accounts for about a seventh of the national economy merits delay .
29 The call went out from a meeting of the National Transport Workers ' Federation Executive on 10 June , Edmund Cathery , in Wilson 's continued absence , declaring that his union would not be bound by it .
30 It could be that a record of achievement which has been validated by the business community will carry greater credibility with business people inside and outside Sheffield than an examination award from one of the national examination boards .
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