Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence alleged abuse of process . |
| 2 | Paradoxically , in most years the outcome of the Defence budgetary process is under-rather than overspending , and this is not because the accounting officers fear the wrath of Parliament , but because of what has become known as the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ , illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 3 | In 1986 she joined the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) , first as programme manager of the electronics sciences division of the Defense Sciences Office and , later as deputy director of the office , where she negotiated the agreement with Gazelle ( see left ) . |
| 4 | He did not mention , however , that his answer on the same occasion made it absolutely clear that the proposed regimental cuts would proceed irrespective of the findings of the Defence Select Committee report . |
| 5 | The Defence Select Committee recommends that the planned merger of the Glosters with another Regiment should be halted . |
| 6 | Mr Brown said that there should also be an independent evaluation by the National Audit Office of the MoD 's work on costing and consultation with the defence select committee and the Scottish select committee . |
| 7 | Mr Hamilton also took a swipe at the defence select committee 's report which had called for all infantry battalion amalgamations , including merger of four Scottish regiments , to be cancelled . |
| 8 | But the chairman of the Defence Select Committee has warned it would be unrealistic to make any further reductions . |
| 9 | Does the Minister accept that there is an atmosphere of crisis within the defence contracting industry in Scotland ? |
| 10 | However , the defence related optronics business hit a sticky patch and lost £4.8 million — though Pilkington said the bulk of that stemmed from redundancy costs . |
| 11 | However , the defence related optronics business hit a sticky patch and lost £4.8 million — though Pilkington said the bulk of that stemmed from redundancy costs . |
| 12 | I have with me the defence White Paper produced by the Labour Government in 1979 . |
| 13 | For this purpose the Defence Operational Analysis Establishment was formed , thereby bringing together specialist staff from the three service departments . |
| 14 | Before we move on , let's just have a look at those numerical estimates , can we look at the coefficients on income , notice that in this model because we 've logged both dependent and the independent variables , right , the coefficients that we estimate are elasticities , right , so we can read those coefficients off directly as elasticities and that 's the case for any model in which all the variables are logged right , in er , if we did n't log the data , in order to calculate the elasticity we have to multiply a coefficient the computer gives us by a erm price quantity ratio , price less , less part of the income constant ratio to obtain the income elasticities . |
| 15 | Some preliminary spadework could reap long term benefits — friendly relations with the daytime Head Teacher and staff of the school where you teach ( or your children attend ) would help if the school decided to run its own evening classes or if you needed to negotiate low cost hire of the premises yourself what about a Junior Award Scheme for the school 's children ? |
| 16 | Dressed in the plant 's uniform of white overalls and cap , he was conducting an exercise to release the excess energy that had built up in the honeycomb matrix of graphite blocks which surrounded the uranium nuclear fuel . |
| 17 | Back in New York I stayed at the Park Central Hotel ( now the Park Sheraton ) where I made the acquaintance of a young American actor called Tom Sanders . |
| 18 | The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance ( DTA , Dirk Mudge , pres. ; Mishake Muyongo , vice-pres. ; the majority political formation in the previous South African-appointed transitional government , and since independence the main opposition party , with 21 Assembly seats ) ; the United Democratic Front ( UDF , Justus Garoeb , l. ) ; the right-wing Action Christian National ( ACN , led until Janni de Wet until May 1990 , and since then by Kosie Pretorius , whose National Party of South West Africa , part of the ACN , decided in August to change its name to the National Party , NP , and to admit non-whites into its ranks ) ; the Namibia Patriotic Front ( NPF Moses Katjiuongua , l. ) ; the Federal Convention of Namibia ( FCN , J.G.A. Diergaardt , l. ) ; the Namibia National Front ( NNF , V. Rukoro , l . ) . |
| 19 | Demonstrations by members of the majority ethnic-Albanian population appeared to have been sparked off by concern that , given the position taken by the Serbian delegation at the extraordinary LCY congress , Kosovar Albanians were to be denied a multiparty political system in the province which would allow Albanian nationalist parties to challenge Serbian domination . |
| 20 | I mean you ask what it 's like erm being a member of the majority Labour group , being the leader of the City Council , it 's extremely hard work , it 's an enormous responsibility , and on many occasions it 's extremely frustrating because the amount of freedom that the City Council has to decide its policy and decide its spending priorities is reducing all the time . |
| 21 | Whites agree in a referendum to give ‘ coloureds ’ and ‘ Indians ’ the vote — but not the majority African population . |
| 22 | As has already been shown the discourse of the Report excludes not only the majority contemporary culture , but also any sense of former cultural , political , or social conflicts and struggles . |
| 23 | A working group of senior parliamentarians broke the deadlock at the talks by endorsing a charter which would give equality in parliament to the majority Muslim population and transfer powers now enjoyed by the Maronite presidency to a cabinet headed by a Sunni Muslim . |
| 24 | The offensive has driven the majority Muslim population out of town and nearly 10,000 are crammed into a village just to the south , according to UN officials . |
| 25 | In September 1991 , after the banning of the republican Communist Party , Ikramov had ordered the removal of Lenin 's statue in Dushanbe — a controversial order which appeared to precipitate the return to power of the majority communist faction in the Supreme Soviet [ see p. 38418 ] . |
| 26 | South Africa 's social and political structure is based on the policy of racial segregation ( apartheid ) ; under the Constitution of 1984 , there is a tricameral Parliament , with a House of Assembly ( 178 members ) representing whites , a House of Representatives ( 85 members ) representing people of mixed race ( " Coloureds " ) , and a House of Delegates ( 45 members ) representing Indians , but no representation for the majority black population . |
| 27 | South Africa 's social and political structure has been based on the policy of racial segregation ( apartheid ) ; under the Constitution of 1984 , there is a tricameral Parliament , with a House of Assembly ( 178 members ) elected by whites , a House of Representatives ( 85 members ) elected by people of mixed race ( " Coloureds " ) , and a House of Delegates ( 45 members ) elected by Indians , but no representation for the majority black population . |
| 28 | These dreadful events took place in the south of Sri Lanka , which is dominated by the majority Sinhalese population . |
| 29 | This is bound to create suspicions among the majority Sinhalese community that the Tigers still harbour ambitions of their own Tamil state . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the paucity of Sinhalese undermined the force 's authority among the majority ethnic group . |