Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open the jacket potatoes lengthways and pile the chilli beans on top . |
| 2 | We thought we were just being cute last week when we hung the tag MABI on Apple 's multi-platform Cat in the Hat Macintosh Application Services ( MAS ) strategy ( UX No 435 ) . |
| 3 | in a Cabinet reshuffle on June 29 Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong relinquished the Defence portfolio to Yeo Ning Hong , hitherto Second Minister for Defence and Minister for Communications . |
| 4 | The interim government which would replace the IJC was to be headed by Rabbani , and a number of portfolios were allocated to various groups , including the premiership to Hekmatyar and the Defence portfolio to Masud . |
| 5 | Saw Maung had relinquished the Foreign Affairs portfolio to U Ohn Gaw in September 1991 and the Defence portfolio in March 1992 . |
| 6 | In a reshuffle on July 14 , 1990 , Maj. Osvaldo Lopes da Silva was replaced as Minister of Transport , Trade and Tourism by Omar Lima , and Pires assumed the Defence portfolio from Maj. Julio de Carvalho , who was hitherto prominent in the party leadership . |
| 7 | Yes , it is clear that , as my hon. Friend says , Labour would cut the defence budget to ribbons . |
| 8 | The government 's solution relies on a sharp switch from long-term capital investment and the defence sector towards food and consumer goods production and improving social services . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They are completely incompatible with the defence policies of NATO , and can not be reconciled with Labour 's policy as currently declared . |
| 11 | Before becoming deputy chairman of the Defence Council under Gorbachev , Baklanov had been in the CPSU secretariat [ see p. 38131 ] , and had worked for the military-industrial complex . |
| 12 | In his summing up , the defence barrister for Shaun Gooch said that ’ he would never get out of his mind that his car was an instrument of death ’ . |
| 13 | Dr Seldon is right to exempt the Defence Committee from Churchill 's strictures . |
| 14 | The defence work of solicitors in criminal cases |
| 15 | Meeting in Budapest on March 6 the defence ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland sought to co-ordinate policy towards NATO 's North Atlantic Co-operation Council ; they committed themselves to an " open barracks " policy along similar lines to the existing " open skies " policy but stressed that they wished to act in the spirit of dialogue and consultation rather than to set up a closed grouping . |
| 16 | The defence minister of Syria , which has sent a division of tanks to help Saudi Arabia , admits to having felt ‘ overwhelming joy ’ at the missile attacks on ‘ occupied Palestine ’ . |
| 17 | Luka Bebic , the Defence Minister of Croatia , resigned on Sept. 18 and was replaced by Gojko Susko , his deputy . |
| 18 | The scandal led to the dismissal of the Defence Minister on Oct. 8 [ see p. 37779 ] . |
| 19 | Supporters of Campbell , the defence minister from Vancouver , and Charest , the youthful environment minister from Quebec , were scrambling to woo uncommitted delegates in a closer-than-expected race . |
| 20 | After a week of discussions in January 1990 with representatives of the military government , including then Interior Minister Carlos Cáceres Contreras , representatives of the President-elect reached agreement on Jan. 4 on modifications to an Armed Forces Charter affecting the role of the military in relation to the President and the Defence Minister after March 11 . |
| 21 | The most glaring contrast is between the EC and the defence alliance of NATO . |
| 22 | The Defence Ministry on Oct. 3 , 1989 , issued instructions requiring all those exporting military " intelligence " from Israel , including instruction and training , to provide proof that their operations had the approval of the government . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Itar-Tass news agency later quoted the defence ministry in Moscow as saying the report was groundless . |
| 25 | Major Tuck 's letter to his son , by now encoded , was transmitted by teleprinter to the Defence Ministry in Baghdad . |
| 26 | In many plants , secondary compounds are concentrated in the trichomes and , for example , a ketone is thus concentrated in the hairs of tomato plants , but that same ketone has been found in the defence secretions of termites and caterpillars . |
| 27 | The Ferranti family 's demands came to light as a result of an approach by representatives of Hill Samuel and Murray Johnstone , who are canvassing support among shareholders for a plan to make Ferranti hive off its core UK defence interests and merge them with the defence activities of Thorn EMI . |
| 28 | It is clear that in cases where the mistake relates to a circumstance qualified by mens rea the outcome will be the same whether one adopts the definitional or the defence doctrine of mistake , that is ‘ the prosecution will wither on the bough . |
| 29 | Veljko Kadijevic asserting that Yugoslavia was already in a state of civil war , the Defence Secretariat on May 6 placed the JNA in a full state of combat alert , ordered the Croatian government to stop its attacks against the army , and threatened to " settle accounts " with those who organized intra-national conflicts and set the people against the JNA . |
| 30 | 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 . |