Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are not a regular eater of such food , insist firmly that the chilli content is severely reduced . |
| 2 | To make best use of them , the tag names are embedded into the text file which is then placed into the template . |
| 3 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 4 | The Defence portfolio was transferred to Gen. Yao Mawulikplimi Amegi , hitherto Minister of the Interior and Security , whose portfolio went to Yao Komlanvi , hitherto Minister of Environment and Tourism . |
| 5 | Malan , Minister of Defence for 11 years , was reassigned to the Ministry of Housing and Works and also of Water and Forest Affairs , replacing Gert J. Kotze in the latter post with effect from Oct. 1 ; the Defence portfolio was taken by his former deputy , Roelf Meyer , who was from the left of the National Party . |
| 6 | The problems of the Defence budget are generally well known . |
| 7 | The defence budget was tightened in 1986/87 with the end of the government 's NATO commitment to raise defence spending by an annual 3% . |
| 8 | Increased tension with India over Kashmir [ see pp. 37377-78 ; 37451-52 ] ensured that the defence budget was increased to Rs63,300 million in 1990-91 after it had been effectively frozen during the previous budget period . |
| 9 | If the Defence Council is charged with ‘ leadership of the country 's defence ’ , the Chief Military Council is charged with ‘ leadership of the Armed Forces ’ . |
| 10 | Central Committee Secretary for Defence Industry ( G. F. Romanov until June 1985 ) * and CC Department for Defence Industry ( I. F. Dmitriyev ) : Whereas the Defence Council is the chosen instrument for ensuring Party control over military policy , the Secretariat is the Party 's vehicle for supervising defence industry . |
| 11 | The Defence Council is therefore the body which joins together the top political and military leadership . |
| 12 | The main task of the Defence Council is to formulate an annual , as well as a five-year , ‘ plan of military construction ’ klan voennogo stroitel'stva ) in accordance with the Party 's reading of political and strategic interests . |
| 13 | Because Soviet military doctrine regards strategy , deployments , force structures and defence Production as integrated and interdependent activities , the Defence Council is concerned not only with a finite number of economic tasks , but with the scrutiny and elaboration of all aspects of defence policy . |
| 14 | By all accounts , the Defence Council is dominated by civilians . |
| 15 | The Chiefs of Staff did not want to do this , and the Defence Committee was worried lest the Korean conflict should divert attention from other danger-spots in Asia and blind Britain to the risk to which it was exposed in Europe . |
| 16 | On 21 September , at Franco 's request , a meeting of the Defence Committee was called in Salamanca to discuss the military and political conduct of the war . |
| 17 | The er the defence case is that er there was no duty a and in my submission it must be of assistance to your Lordship to determine that issue to hear evidence from both sides upon whether there is such a practice and if there is what the extent of it is . |
| 18 | Held , granting the applications and remitting the case to the magistrates , the essence of the defence case was an allegation that the prosecutor had dishonestly contrived to manipulate the prosecution process so as to avoid the consequences of the legislation which brought the applicants within the custody time limit regulations . |
| 19 | The defence case was primarily that the shooting had been accidental . |
| 20 | There is no measure of what the defence services are ‘ worth ’ in terms of the assets and liabilities they have . |
| 21 | The CNI itself had nominally been disbanded in March 1990 , but the Defence Minister was quoted as saying that it was preferable to keep former CNI agents " in the establishment than in the street " . |
| 22 | For the first time since 1944 , the Defence Minister was a civilian . |
| 23 | Such a disease is likely to be ‘ opportunistic ’ — in other words it is unable to attack a normal healthy body where the defence system is fully operational . |
| 24 | Extra artillery and troops were drafted in , and an attempt was made to plug the gaps with extra forts , yet by the 1740s the defence lines were crooked and poorly organized . |
| 25 | ‘ But the economy is sort of changing to be less based on the big companies , less based in some of the big centres of population where the media is based , and the defence industries are just having to adapt to a very new era . |
| 26 | that workers and managers together are enabled to develop alternative , civilian production strategies for their firms , that investment in R&D ; is shifted from military to civilian purposes , and that the enormous skills and technological investment which exist in the defence industries are harnessed for environmental protection . |
| 27 | The DEFENCE MINISTRY is to axe 1,950 research workers within two years as 19 of its 54 research centres are shut down . |
| 28 | The defence ministry is pursuing what it calls ‘ administrative ’ control over them , and is trying to win the loyalty of the troops serving at the missile sites . |
| 29 | He also released a secret document dated October 1990 showing that the Defence Ministry was worried about the amount of high-tech products being exported to Iraq . |
| 30 | The Defence Ministry was ordered to submit proposals for military reform , including reducing the strength of the armed forces and moving from a conscript to a professional army . |