Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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% . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The defence case was primarily that the shooting had been accidental . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | For the first time since 1944 , the Defence Minister was a civilian . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But early last year , when all three of the latter fell out of the running , Grachev 's way to the defence ministry was unopposed . |
| 14 | The defence story was emphasised that she |
| 15 | The defence argument was that this was a preliminary to ‘ conventional ’ intercourse , and that if the husband was exempt from liability for rape , he should equally be exempt from liability for indecent assault . |
| 16 | As in the Court of Appeal , the defence argument was primarily directed towards implying words into section 1(1) , a difficult task at best , and only secondarily towards the meaning of ‘ appropriates : ’ see p. 631a . |
| 17 | The defence argument was solely that Caldwell could be distinguished on the grounds that in DPP v K there was a gap between the accused 's act and the injury , an argument which the court rejected . |
| 18 | On Aug. 14 the US administration announced that the Defence Department was to take charge of a two-month US operation to airlift food into Somalia ( or into Kenya for onward distribution into Somalia and use in refugee camps ) . |
| 19 | The Defence Fund was set up to assist members during the period of a strike or a lock-out . |
| 20 | The Defence Fund was discussed before the meeting ended and adjourned to ‘ 93 ’ for refreshments . |
| 21 | The defence claim was founded upon the secret recording of Noriega 's telephone calls — including those with his lawyers — by the authorities . |
| 22 | The defence allocation was increased by nearly 2 per cent , from R9,900 million to R10,070 million . |
| 23 | Finally the chapter has described the achieved action and control samples and has shown that they were well matched and that the response rate was good . |
| 24 | The Pahls in their study had quite a high rate of non-co-operation : twenty of the group of 113 managers whom they wanted to study did not complete the questionnaire ( although the response rate was higher from the wives ' postal questionnaire ) ; of the twenty-nine couples who were asked to give home interviews , six refused and six did not answer the letter . |
| 25 | Another development in market research was the ‘ lifestyle questionnaire ’ , but Mr Mouncey warned that a lot more work needed to be done in this area as the response rate was generally low and not statistically significant . |
| 26 | The response rate was 82% ( 397 women , 423 men ) . |
| 27 | To analyse whether the response rate was related to treatment modification or selection of patients , the actual response was compared with a predicted response that was obtained with a response model developed by Brook et al . |
| 28 | number of visitors falling into these categories , and this was taken into account when the response rate was calculated . |
| 29 | The Treasury , under the control throughout this period of orthodox Gladstonians , was committed to the belief that the income tax was a temporary expedient to be removed as soon as possible . |
| 30 | At first the allowance was £10 for each child under sixteen years of age , but this and the income limit were raised during the First World War , and later , in 1919 , the age limit for the child was abolished provided he or she was still in full-time education . |