Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] forces [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy announced on Oct. 16 that the Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff and the Commander of the Development Forces of the army had been dismissed following the late delivery of fuel to the capital . |
| 2 | He volunteered to join the Regiment of Irish Light Horse , raised to go to the assistance of the Confederate forces in the American Civil War . |
| 3 | The very particularity of the sacrament forces upon the penitent the sense that it is on the here and now — that row we had with the neighbours , the bad temper with which we did the washing-up , this specific uncharitable thought or unchaste deed — that salvation and damnation depend . |
| 4 | , Sir Joshua , first baronet ( 1702–1777 ) , merchant and financier , was born in The Hague 5 January 1702 , one of the six sons of Cornelis Van Neck , paymaster-general of the land forces of the United Provinces , and his wife Anna de Greeff . |
| 5 | Angry crowds would curse George I , Whigs and Dissenters , the Duke of Marlborough ( a warmonger , and the man widely believed to be responsible for encouraging George I to show all his favour to the Whigs ) , and often even William III , whilst reserving their cheers for James III , the Duke of Ormonde ( the Tory who had replaced Marlborough as Captain-General of the Land Forces in 1712 ) , Dr Sacheverell , and the Church of England . |
| 6 | The Security Service is part of the Defence Forces of the country . |
| 7 | The Security Service is part of the Defence forces of the country . |
| 8 | In Madrid , the rebels ' objective since July 1936 , the end came on 27 March , when the chief of the Republican Army of the Centre surrendered to the leader of the Nationalist forces on the Madrid front , General Espinosa de los Monteros . |
| 9 | A new unity government was named on Nov. 13 , following an agreement signed on Oct. 29 by President Didier Ratsiraka and Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy , and representatives of the opposition forces including the Comité de forces vives , religious groups and the armed forces . |
| 10 | By turning to the Falangist component of the regime forces in this way , Franco was resorting to an old tactic . |
| 11 | Modern theories of the cohesion forces in crystal lattices in any case rule against the notion of central forces except in ionic crystals . |
| 12 | A DP statement on Nov. 26 had listed key demands as the bringing forward of elections from May-June to February 1992 , the resumption of trials of members of the security forces for the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators in Shkodër before the April elections , the removal of SPA members from key positions in Albanian Radio and Televison ( RTV — ibid. ) , and the arrest of former communist leaders ( " blockmen " ) who were accused of abuse of power . |
| 13 | The response of the security forces to the peaceful demonstrations had been generally restrained , but on July 23 , following several unsuccessful attempts by the opposition to take over government buildings and install its " ministers " in office , Ratsiraka declared a state of emergency , including a night-time curfew , and issued warrants for the arrest of opposition leaders . |
| 14 | When he talks of taking the war to the terrorists , I must reassert from the Dispatch Box that the actions of Her Majesty 's Government , and of the security forces on their behalf , will be conducted under the rule of law and that the rule of law will not be thrown away , for that would be a concession to the terrorists . |
| 15 | The total strength of the security forces including the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Ulster Defence Regiment in Northern Ireland would rise to over 29,000 . |
| 16 | On the following day , however , a presidential commission investigating the role of the security forces during the November 1989 revolution published findings implicating Vacek , at that time Army Chief of Staff and First Deputy Defence Minister , in preparations by the Army high command to clamp down against the demonstrations which ultimately had overthrown the communist regime . |
| 17 | Sean Patrick Adams , 30 , and Anthony Gillen , 27 , were accused of attempting to murder members of the security forces in west Belfast , and of possessing an AK 47 rifle and ammunition with intent to endanger life . |
| 18 | There can be no substitute for the courageous and difficult efforts of the security forces in upholding , impartially , the rule of law . |
| 19 | According to the report , the removal of Jagmohan was a direct response to the action of the security forces in the aftermath of Maulvi Farooq 's assassination . |
| 20 | The death toll from the conflict up to the withdrawal of the security forces in March remained unclear , but was certainly in excess of 100 . |
| 21 | The targeting of the security forces by Republican paramilitaries is reflected in a rise in the number of members of the security forces killed as a proportion of total deaths . |
| 22 | A 1978 law already protected members of the security forces from being investigated for human rights abuses , and the then President , Augusto Pinochet , had stated in late 1989 as regards human rights that " the day one of my men is touched , the state of law is over " . |
| 23 | In his letter McGlinchey claimed he was wrongly blamed for removing files on members of the security forces from the company 's Ballymena branch . |
| 24 | After the withdrawal of the ground forces of the " Provide Comfort " operation [ see pp. 38357 ; 38450-51 ] the remaining forces , described in some reports as a 48-warplane deterrent force ( backed up by a United States aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean ) were deployed at joint Turkish-United States air bases at Incirlik and Pirinclick . |