Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun prp] naval " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hill Samuel plan envisages splitting off the UK naval and avionics businesses and giving shareholders one share in the new company for every share they hold in the existing organisation . |
| 2 | Soviet sources allegedly aired the idea that Kabul should be prepared to grant Moscow such rights ‘ possibly patterned after the Porkkala naval base precedent in Finland ’ . |
| 3 | On Aug. 27 Dieter Gerhardt , a former commander of the Simonstown naval base , was released from prison where he had been serving a life sentence since 1983 after being convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union [ see p. 32659 ] . |
| 4 | The way this defence was used can be seen from the following submission , made by a defendant charged with the possession of a hacksaw blade with intent to do criminal damage to the perimeter fence of the US naval base at Brawdy : |
| 5 | There remains a strong positive bias in the right-ascension residuals from 1895–1905 , but Standish has traced the majority of these to a single catalogue of the US Naval Office 9-inch transit telescope ( data from two other sources do not show this bias ) ; an observational error such as an incorrect equinox correction is a plausible explanation . |
| 6 | Commander David Carlson of the US frigate John H. Sides , which was in the Gulf at the same time as the Vincennes , wrote in the September issue of the US Naval Institute journal Proceedings that the airbus was shot down " for no good reason " and referred to " pathetic post-incident attempts to place the blame [ for the incident ] on the victims " . |
| 7 | During Bush 's visit the two sides agreed in principle on the relocation of the US naval logistic command headquarters from Subic Bay in the Philippines to Singapore . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State for Defence on the threatened closure of the Rosyth Naval Base ; |
| 9 | Up to fourteen hundred defence jobs are to go with the closure of the Portland naval base and a cutback in the workload at Portsmouth . |
| 10 | However , before any of this could happen , Rear-Admiral Kotov , from the Ordzhonikidze , went to see Rear-Admiral Philip Burnett , Chief of Staff of the Portsmouth naval base , complaining that his sailors had seen a frogman near his ships that morning , and demanding an explanation . |
| 11 | Gilliland based his study on no less than five sets of data , including the old records from the Royal Greenwich Observatory with the correction for systematic observing errors , similar measurements with a meridian circle from the US Naval Observatory in Washington , two sets of Mercury-transit observations , and the solar eclipse data . |
| 12 | On Jan. 10 , three Interior Ministry officers were shot dead and a fourth wounded during an unsuccessful attempt by several Cubans to flee the country by stealing a boat from the Tarara naval base in Habana del Este . |
| 13 | On 3 and 4 July mass demonstrations in which workers , garrison soldiers , and sailors from the Kronstadt naval base were prominent , converged on the Tauride Palace . |
| 14 | He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began . |
| 15 | US Navy Commander David Carlson wrote a year after the episode , in the US Naval Institute 's Proceedings for September 1989 , that he ‘ wondered aloud in disbelief ’ as from his nearby vessel USS Sides he observed the Vincennes shoot down what was plainly a commercial airliner in a commercial corridor , perhaps out of ‘ a need to prove the visibility of Aegis ’ , the missile system abroad the Vincennes . |
| 16 | For two years he taught at the University of Texas at Austin , and directed the Michener Collection there , before enlisting in the U.S. Naval Reserve for a four year stint . |
| 17 | Bush became tired and breathless and , after an examination at the camp 's infirmary , he was flown to the Bethesda Naval Medical Centre in Washington DC . |
| 18 | On Jan. 30 , the US authorities revealed that two members of a Cuban family were wounded by Cuban security forces while attempting to flee to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay . |
| 19 | Olongapo has the distinction of being adjacent to the US naval base in Subic Bay . |
| 20 | Dr Donald Lewis , paediatric neurologist at the US Naval Hospital in Virginia , says the youngster had distal renal tubular acidosis . |
| 21 | On July 19 the two leaders addressed Greek and US naval personnel at the US naval base at Souda bay , Crete . |
| 22 | Luis Miguel Almeida and René Salmerón Mendoza were executed by firing squad on Feb. 19 , having been convicted of killing four policemen at the Tarara naval base on Jan. 8 during an unsuccessful attempt to steal a vessel and escape from Cuba to Miami [ see p. 38715 ] . |
| 23 | Under contract to Sir William Halcrow and Partners , AGG staff made a field survey of the occurrence of methane at the construction site of a new nuclear-submarine refitting facility at the Rosyth Naval Base . |
| 24 | He 's currently under military custody at the Rosyth naval base in Scotland . |
| 25 | In his report to the league 's AGM at the Deeside Naval Club next week Bridges will say that discipline had showed an improvement with fines reduced by over 50% . |
| 26 | Around 50 vessels had gathered around the Devon naval port , witnesses said . |
| 27 | ABOVE Comet Ikeya-Seki photographed by the US Naval observatory in 1978 . |