Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Defence regulations in 1916 , sidelamps in little wooden boxes were fitted to the top of the dash , like their Corporation counterparts . |
| 2 | Saw Maung had relinquished the Foreign Affairs portfolio to U Ohn Gaw in September 1991 and the Defence portfolio in March 1992 . |
| 3 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 4 | So far , a survey has been conducted of companies in the defence sector in Scotland and work is in hand to develop the best approach to assisting these companies . |
| 5 | Aerospace and electronics have been chosen as case studies , these sectors being representative of the defence sector in general but sufficiently different to provide useful comparisons . |
| 6 | This view , which had been accepted by Britain at an earlier date , was reiterated by the Ministry of Fuel and power to the Defence Committee in 1946 . |
| 7 | It is certainly true that much of the criticism of Leonard Arthur and doctors who believe as he did , was made ‘ in ignorance and misunderstanding of how the science and art of paediatrics is practised ’ as the defence counsel in the case claimed . |
| 8 | In conclusion he quoted directly from his statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia trial in 1964 [ see pp. 20245-46 ] : " I have fought against white domination , and I have fought against black domination . |
| 9 | Albert Mansur , the Defence Minister in the Hoss Cabinet , stated that the objective of the blockade was to use " peaceful and economic methods … to end the rebellion and reunify the military establishment " . |
| 10 | Against the background of the thousands of jobs that have been lost in the defence industries in the past couple of years , and the thousands likely to be lost in the future , is not the Government 's initiative wholly inadequate ? |
| 11 | Major Tuck 's letter to his son , by now encoded , was transmitted by teleprinter to the Defence Ministry in Baghdad . |
| 12 | Krase , who was sacked by the Defence Ministry in 1984 for incompetence over the affair and died in 1988 , had prepared the MAD reports which led the then Defence Minister Manfred Wörner to dismiss Kiessling . |
| 13 | In an FMLN mortar attack on the headquarters of the Defence Ministry in the capital , San Salvador , on Feb. 19 , one person was reported killed and eight others injured . |
| 14 | The report stated that under the terms of the new budget , the government had agreed to meet all demands submitted by the Defence Ministry in order to ensure maintenance of Iraq 's combat capabilities . |
| 15 | Itar-Tass news agency later quoted the defence ministry in Moscow as saying the report was groundless . |
| 16 | The fact that Cheney felt able to cancel the A-12 was indicative of the altering priorities of the Defence Department in the post-cold war era . |
| 17 | Timing of the airdrops was to be determined by the defence department in co-operation with the United Nations , the president said in a written statement . |
| 18 | The defence effort in France and the UK : a comparative study |
| 19 | This was in part the result of research in the archives of the Defence Agency in Tokyo , and partly a response to a compensation suit filed in a Tokyo District Court in December by three former " comfort women " . |
| 20 | As a former Minister of Defence , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer , he was all too familiar with the Defence arguments in the Whitehall market-place . |
| 21 | My right hon. Friend will no doubt be aware of the importance of British Aerospace as a major employer in the defence industry in the north-west . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years . |
| 23 | It 's not an ‘ instant ’ way of playing , whereas , especially with units like the Trace Elliot here , using a plectrum tightens up the response time in terms of attack . |
| 24 | The use of a software package such as ‘ Office Power ’ with the ability to generate on-line a standard response to correspondence would dramatically improve the response time in dealing with most enquiries from individual and ensure that a response is made within a matter of days . |
| 25 | Chris Girton , health safety and security coordinator and Andy Grainge , senior geologist , who were members of the response team in Melbourne , explain that the plant was built to survive shocks such as this . |
| 26 | The response rate in the 1990 census was 95.3% for establishments and 95.6% for residents ( enumeration of establishments was complete in 1979 ) . |
| 27 | The response results in a state transition . |
| 28 | However , this was definitely secondary to the manpower approach , though again Dalton liked to contrast actual levels of expenditure with the £500 million which the Coalition had thought likely to be necessary in peacetime , pointing out in early 1947 that the current level of expenditure at over £800 million meant 2s. in the pound extra on the income tax in comparison with the Coalition figure . |
| 29 | The income statement in Table 6.1 can be drawn up using depreciation to give reported earnings or using capital allowances to give taxable earnings . |
| 30 | of pensioners were in the top half of the income distribution in 1987 compared with 24 per cent . |