Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an " add " instruction is being executed , the hardware of the computer examines the tag fields of the two operands , and selects the correct form of " add " , whether the fixed-point , short or long floating-point , decimal digit string , or some other data-type . |
| 2 | It was reported on April 11 , 1990 , that tapes of an interview held following the 1975 trial , between Gerard Conlon , one of the Four , and Peter ( now Sir Peter ) Imbert , now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , who was at the time of the trial a bomb squad superintendent , were becoming a source of conflict between the police and the defence lawyers at the judicial inquiry . |
| 3 | Joint UK-Italian proposals on Oct. 4 envisaged that the WEU would develop aims " not contradictory but compatible " with its becoming " the defence component of the [ European ] union " . |
| 4 | The Western European Union ( WEU ) would become " the defence component of the Union " . |
| 5 | He had every hope that his longer-term plans would reduce the Defence share of the GDP from 7. 1 per cent down to 5 per cent by the end of his five-year programme . |
| 6 | On the issue that the Secretary of State has just discussed with the defence spokesman of the Ulster Unionist party , the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone ( Mr. Maginnis ) , while holding that it should be a weapon in the armoury of any civilised Government to take out of circulation those who are seeking to destroy , murder and maim , will he give a full assurance to the House that he will undertake that act , if he has to do so , as a British Minister responsible to this House , and not in cliques with the Dublin Government who say that they would need to approve such a move ? |
| 7 | Stane Brovet , the Deputy Defence Minister , also warned the defence committee of the Federal Assembly on May 8 that the JNA had exhausted existing ways of trying to avert ethnic conflict , and he accused republic leaders and the media of creating a fratricidal atmosphere . |
| 8 | It is certainly true that much of the criticism of Leonard Arthur and doctors who believe as he did , was made ‘ in ignorance and misunderstanding of how the science and art of paediatrics is practised ’ as the defence counsel in the case claimed . |
| 9 | In conclusion he quoted directly from his statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia trial in 1964 [ see pp. 20245-46 ] : " I have fought against white domination , and I have fought against black domination . |
| 10 | In the military sphere the measures which Kang suggested included the exchange of military personnel and information , the notification of significant troop movements and the establishment of a " hot-line " telecommunications link between the Defence Ministers of the two states . |
| 11 | Gen. Oscar Botero , the Defence Minister under the previous regime , was retained in his post . |
| 12 | Albert Mansur , the Defence Minister in the Hoss Cabinet , stated that the objective of the blockade was to use " peaceful and economic methods … to end the rebellion and reunify the military establishment " . |
| 13 | Everett , about 30 miles north of Seattle , has a not-quite-finished ‘ home port ’ , one of several relatively small bases started at the height of the defence build-up of the Reagan years . |
| 14 | Representatives of the defence industries of the four countries also lobbied for the continuation of the project . |
| 15 | Against the background of the thousands of jobs that have been lost in the defence industries in the past couple of years , and the thousands likely to be lost in the future , is not the Government 's initiative wholly inadequate ? |
| 16 | In an FMLN mortar attack on the headquarters of the Defence Ministry in the capital , San Salvador , on Feb. 19 , one person was reported killed and eight others injured . |
| 17 | The vehicle used , as on many occasions in the past , was Chapman Pincher , the defence correspondent of the Daily Express who on 19 June entertained George Brown , the ebullient and unpredictable Labour politician , to lunch at the Ecu de France restaurant . |
| 18 | The Security Service is part of the Defence Forces of the country . |
| 19 | The Security Service is part of the Defence forces of the country . |
| 20 | They also agreed to take more of the defence burden from the USA . |
| 21 | The escalation of the A-12's costs was seen as a failure for the fixed budgeting principle much praised by the Defence Department during the 1980s . |
| 22 | The fact that Cheney felt able to cancel the A-12 was indicative of the altering priorities of the Defence Department in the post-cold war era . |
| 23 | We should build up the Western European Union as the defence pillar of the European union , but the treaty embodies the view set out in the Anglo-Italian proposal two months ago , and endorsed at last month 's summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that whatever we do at European level must be compatible with NATO . |
| 24 | TJ , who did not give evidence , was convicted and appealed , submitting that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong to rule that there was no breach of the Code ; ( 2 ) the judge wrongly told the jury that there had been no breach , thus undermining the defence speech to the jury on this point ; ( 3 ) the evidence was unsafe and unsatisfactory having regard to the evidence given by D ; and the judge should have withdrawn the case from the jury . |
| 25 | The question of strengthening the defence identity of the Union will be decided at the final stage of the conference . |
| 26 | As a former Minister of Defence , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer , he was all too familiar with the Defence arguments in the Whitehall market-place . |
| 27 | ‘ It seems very likely , ’ concludes Mr Irwin , ‘ that had this evidence been available to the defence team at the time of the trial , the outcome would have been different . |
| 28 | My right hon. Friend will no doubt be aware of the importance of British Aerospace as a major employer in the defence industry in the north-west . |
| 29 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 30 | Installed at San Salvatore , high above the Mediterranean near Portofino , the defence mechanisms of the four Englishwomen melt away . |