Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domkat Yah Bali , a Christian who was up till then considered to be the regime 's " number three " , had lost the Defence portfolio and the post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , and was removed from the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) . |
| 2 | Romania has many joint party-state organizations such as the Supreme Council for Economic Development , the Central Council of Workers ' Control of Economic and Social Activity , the Defence Council and the Council for Socialist Culture and Education : ‘ These organizations provide an infrastructure for blending party and state activities ’ ( Szajkowski 1981 , p. 47 ) . |
| 3 | Subject to the overriding authority of the Defence Committee and the Cabinet , he would have the power to decide : |
| 4 | Energy Minister S. Krishnakumar said that governments , the public sector , the defence services and the railways , must use solar heating systems . |
| 5 | Other possible power centres in Kabul included a Kabul City Security Commission headed by Ahmed Shah Masud ( the Defence Minister and the dominant military figure in the new regime ) , and a council of mujaheddin commanders . |
| 6 | But this pleased neither the defence ministry nor the navy who pointed out that it would merely sail back again . |
| 7 | Sir Hilary " Hal " Miller , a senior Conservative MP , told the House that he had acted on behalf of WS during the past few years , and had warned the DTI , the Defence Ministry and an unidentified " third agency " on a number of occasions about suspicious Iraqi orders . |
| 8 | On May 14 , 1990 , bombings in Santiago , which included attacks against the Defence Ministry and the US consulate , reportedly caused extensive damage but only minor injuries . |
| 9 | The underlying problem was the competing authority of the Defence Ministry and the National Security Council attached to the President 's Office . |
| 10 | But obvious problems will centre on the security situation , and the reconstruction of the defence forces and the economy . |
| 11 | There are , indeed , impressive reasons for characterising it as such , but only the most committed proponent of this view would wish to deny that the defence effort and the scientific-technological base on which it rests can be entirely insulated from the problems we have surveyed here . |
| 12 | While the defence claim that the girls had consented was not taken seriously by the newspapers , the reports did often imply that the girls had behaved irresponsibly . |
| 13 | The Labour party conference has three times voted to cut £6 billion from the defence budget , and we can see the extent to which that would devastate the defence industry and the defence of this country . |
| 14 | Beginning with the distribution of medical practitioners , a PEP report in 1944 found that it was ‘ determined primarily by the income level or the rateable capacity of the locality ’ , and perceptively concluded that this disparity ‘ is even more serious than it appears … because ‘ under-doctored ’ districts are usually also poor districts with high rates of sickness and mortality ’ . |
| 15 | There is no single point in the income scale where the poverty trap begins to operate . |
| 16 | They joined the drift of crowd towards the sitting-out places and the too few chairs . |
| 17 | I was truthfully able to award eighteen points out of twenty for the spring onion soup , nineteen for the marinated chicken , nineteen for the mango mousse and the coconut pudding , and a full twenty for the fish curry ( Goans ca n't abide a meal without fish ; and expatriates have been driven to sprinkling dried fish on baked beans ) . |
| 18 | The younger children are kept out of harm 's way in a hammock slung between two of the mango trees and the older children entertain themselves in the grounds . |
| 19 | The election campaign was marred by racial tensions between the majority Macedonians and the Albanians , who constituted over one-third of Macedonia 's 1,900,000 population and were concentrated in the west of the republic . |
| 20 | The economic problems of Kosovo merge with — and accentuate — its political problems , which arise from the conflict between the majority Albanians and the shrinking minority of Serbs and Montenegrins . |
| 21 | The largest party , or a coalition of parties , forms the majority group and the next largest party , or coalition , the minority group , sometimes termed ‘ the opposition ’ . |
| 22 | In politics he was more impressive ; as his long parliamentary career suggests , he was seldom far from the majority view and the middle ground . |
| 23 | Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy . |
| 24 | Again , the contingency reserve and the block method of funding of grants provide means by which it is possible to accommodate limited extra calls , as in the case of the Falklands war . |
| 25 | This allocation is variously known as the contingency fund or the reserve ( or in at least one authority as ‘ the slosh ’ ) . |
| 26 | There are several questions which may require pupils to select appropriate numbers from the calculator display after an operation has been carried out . |
| 27 | Everyone was invited to use the chapel , the prayer room and the lounges for quiet prayer and meditation . |
| 28 | The boiler burst and the balcony was declared unsafe . |
| 29 | ‘ Hey Babe ’ 's strength is in the unnerving directness of the songs , the range of the guitar figures and the simplicity of the everyday language . |
| 30 | He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus . |