Example sentences of "defence [noun sg] would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Ronald Venetiaan stated on Oct. 17 that the country did not need an army to defend its sovereignty and that the budget of the Defence Ministry would be cut by half and the army reduced by two-thirds , to approximately 1,500 . |
| 2 | The Justice Ministry would be given higher profile , and a Defence Ministry would be created . |
| 3 | The LRDG would raid Barce airfield as a diversion and the British-led Sudan Defence Force would be used to retake Jalo Oasis to secure a more favourable return route for the raiding parties . |
| 4 | A new 30,000-strong national defence force would be formed from volunteers among the assembled troops , with both sides contributing an equal number of troops ; remaining troops would be demobilized . |
| 5 | Professor Roland Smith , the chairman of British Aerospace , last night predicted that the European defence industry would be dominated by three or four major companies by the mid-nineties as a result of national and trans-national mergers . |
| 6 | In wartime it would become the Stavka , HQ of the Supreme High Command , whereas the Defence Council would be transformed into the GKO ) . |
| 7 | It was reported in the Army newspaper Ulaan Od in February 1990 that a new defence law would be drafted and the national service law renewed ; more officers would be trained at home and fewer abroad . |
| 8 | They had convinced him that no radical change in Defence policy would be negotiable unless the Minister of Defence was given greater powers to override the special pleading of the Admiralty , the War Office , the Air Ministry , and the Ministry of Supply . |
| 9 | Macmillan , however , saw that amalgamation of the Service Ministries and the Ministry of Supply concurrently with sweeping changes in Defence policy would be more than the Defence establishment could take . |
| 10 | So for a while , the President of the United States effectively had world power , there was no other power in the world who could stand up to the U S , er , after , after , World War One for one argument anyway , and I think Freud 's er , defence disposition would be , Woodrow Wilson was the man who came to Europe , saying he would bring a just peace for all , and went away leaving a total mess , and , and , Freud 's er argument in his book is , told us was , well , the mess er , was really Wilson 's own doing , and if it was his doing , what was it in his character that allowed him to er , si to on some Lloyd George , who bullied him into getting most of what they wanted . |
| 11 | Defence expenditure would be further reduced . |