Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] headquarters " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solly Zuckerman and J. D. Bernal were roped into Combined Operations Headquarters ( COHQ ) by Lord Louis Mountbatten , along with that lateral thinker Geoffrey Pyke ( New Scientist , 30 July 1981 , p 302 ) , the inventor of the giant iceberg ship Habbakuk and many other projects which did not quite come to fruition . |
| 2 | Only one more raid was mounted in 1940 and that in July , when Lieutenant-General Alan Bourne of the Royal Marines was temporarily running Combined Operations Headquarters ( the name used throughout this book for the directorate , although in fact having some variations of title ) before Keyes 's appointment . |
| 3 | Courtney 's canoeists with ten Folbots ( see diagram p. 25 ) were the first of what became the Special Boat Section , formed after their leader had given a practical demonstration of the canoe 's military potential , a potential doubted by even the adventurous characters in Combined Operations headquarters until Courtney paddled out one summer night in 1940 to a carrier ship moored in the Clyde . |
| 4 | Within weeks Combined Operations headquarters were to take on a new vitality . |
| 5 | In December 1941 , under the new management , Combined Operations headquarters promoted three major raids . |
| 6 | However , the value of assault pilotage was recognised at Combined Operations headquarters . |
| 7 | The next meeting is being held at the Pentland Hills Regional Park Headquarters , Boghall Farm , Biggar Road , Edinburgh , Midlothian , on Thursday , 10 December 1992 at 7.00pm . |
| 8 | But UN officials in Bahrain , the regional field headquarters for the UN Special Commission ( UNSCOM ) entrusted with destroying Iraq 's weapons of mass destruction , said that team was now likely to stay at least until tomorrow . |
| 9 | Our European research headquarters are near Wantage in the South Oxfordshire countryside . |
| 10 | With one hand he would try to mend Britain 's fences with the United States by using his own close relationship with President Eisenhower and other senior members of the US Administration , which he had formed when he was British political adviser at Eisenhower 's Allied Force Headquarters in the Mediterranean during the War . |
| 11 | FM Alexander 's Allied Force Headquarters was informed accordingly and , on 3 May , Eighth Army issued an Operation Instruction No 1465 [ KP 49 ] which ordered : " Chetniks , troops of Mihailovitch and other dissident Yugoslavs … will be regarded as surrendered personnel and will be treated accordingly . |
| 12 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |
| 13 | Ransacking of old Stasi headquarters |
| 14 | Outside the old Stasi headquarters in the Lichtenberg district of East Berlin demonstrators stormed and ransacked the building and were only persuaded to stop after Modrow and New Forum round table delegates broke off their meeting and appealed for calm at the scene itself . |
| 15 | Among the book 's central allegations were claims that Mossad had ( i ) failed to inform the United States of prior intelligence concerning the October 1983 suicide bombing of the US Marine battalion headquarters in Beirut , the Lebanese capital [ see pp. 32646-47 ] ; ( ii ) established a secret spy network ( " A1 " ) in the USA ; ( iii ) helped bring about the dismissal of Andrew Young from his post of US representative at the UN in 1979 after secretly recording Young 's clandestine meetings with PLO officials [ see p. 29956 ] ; and ( iv ) caused the downfall of Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin in 1977 by exposing his wife 's illegal foreign currency bank account [ see p. 28533 ] . |
| 16 | These give more detailed information and are available at Public Libraries , Department of Social Work offices , your local Health Centre or GP Surgery or from the Department of Social Work Headquarters , telephone — during office hours — . |
| 17 | Many of the staff continued to look on Hacking and his staff at Trafalgar Buildings ( the old CEB headquarters ) as a continuation of the CEB . |
| 18 | The chief engineer 's department remained in the old CEB headquarters , and Hacking and Pask were looked upon by the divisions as the engineering heads of the industry , but the division of responsibilities at the top of the BEA , as we have seen , envisaged a role also for Self , as the deputy chairman in charge of administration ( pp. 12–13 , above ) . |
| 19 | Some of its relics are scrupulously cared for in the English Circle headquarters ; they showed me a pair of jockey scales , caricatures of riders clambering redfaced out of ditches , group paintings of the hunt moving off . |
| 20 | They disembarked at Queen 's Pier , next to the town hall and the British garrison headquarters , for the 25-minute welcome ceremony . |
| 21 | Gallacher was on the verge of being deported and the team returned to England to face a full enquiry at the English FA Headquarters in Lancaster Gate . |
| 22 | ‘ We did a Watergate , ’ Otley explained , ‘ only in our case it was a Boilermakers Union Housegate , the old union headquarters . |
| 23 | Stephen Evans , B B C News , at British Coal Headquarters . |
| 24 | That is one of the attractive things about the business : that there is no long tail Direct line headquarters : Our only property we use |
| 25 | Although Warburton acts as co-ordinator for the association , meetings will be held alternately at different company headquarters . |
| 26 | Now , erm Rose is secretary and she 's had things through from er British Section Headquarters and she 'll tell us what she 's got there . |
| 27 | One of their smart uniforms , which are no longer worn in the country , now occupies a proud position in Walker 's office in Scottish prison headquarters in Edinburgh . |
| 28 | Donaldson 's for instance became a German prisoner-of-war camp ; the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate was taken over by the Corporation of Margate and used as the Civil Defence Headquarters , Food & Fuel Office , W.V.S. Headquarters , Emergency Police station , among a number of other wartime departments . |
| 29 | There are one or two clerks , er that have male , purely because it 's , it 's their job anyway , and er the chief clerk headquarters is a male but the majority of them now are women yep , and they do well er , headquarters staff do it very well I think , that side of it . |
| 30 | In May 1989 Judge Baltasar Garzón travelled to Paris to question the senior ETA leaders Santiago Arróspide Sarasola ( " Santi Potros " — arrested in Anglet in September 1987 ) , José Antonio Urrutikoetxea Bengoetxea ( " Josu Ternera " — arrested on Jan. 11 , 1989 , in Bayonne — see p. 36406 , where the date is wrongly given as Jan. 12 ) , Elena Beloki Resa ( arrested with Urrutikoetxea ) and Mariano Estebán González Betolaza ( arrested on April 14 in Montpellier , southern France ) ; in July Garzón requested the Spanish government to begin extradition proceedings against Arróspide for his part in organizing a May 1987 attack on the Madrid Civil Guard headquarters in which one person was killed . |