Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the royal navy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finished in the temperate sea paint scheme similar to the Royal Navy Historic Flight 's LS326 , Bob 's aircraft now becomes the second airworthy Swordfish in the world . |
| 2 | Only 80 of the Royal Navy 's 124 ships of 50 guns or more had proved fit for service , fewer than the 40 Spanish and 50 French ships of the line , and both in seaworthiness and weight of gunfire the best French and Spanish ships out-classed the finest English vessels . |
| 3 | Many of the Royal Navy 's most famous ships , including the Ark Royal aircraft carriers and battleships Rodney and Prince of Wales were built there . |
| 4 | Even its uniforms are modelled on those of the Royal Navy . |
| 5 | The attraction of such a place was enhanced by the prize money paid in time of war to officers of the Indian Marine as to those of the Royal Navy , but the time promotion was unique to the Indian service , virtually guaranteeing advancement in rank . |
| 6 | The Soviet authorities presented it to those in the Royal Navy and merchant service who operated in Russian waters during the war . |
| 7 | With grateful thanks from Sunderland Ltd to the Royal Navy who supplied Gazelle XW887 from Fleetlands as camera-ship . |
| 8 | Mr Byers , MP for Tyneside constituency Wallsend , wants the inquiry by the National Audit Office to be part of its investigation into VSEL 's successful tender for the Royal Navy 's new helicopter carrier . |
| 9 | To make this very difficult underwater inspection , MI6 approached one of the Royal Navy 's most experienced wartime frogmen — Commander Lionel ‘ Buster ’ Crabb GM OBE RNVR . |
| 10 | But , muscular Christians all , they were not averse to reinforcing moral injunctions with physical force-Throughout most of the nineteenth century one of the Royal Navy 's main tasks was the suppression of the slave trade on the west and east African coasts . |
| 11 | Wallsend-based shipbuilder Swan Hunter is bidding for the carrier contract which will be one of the Royal Navy 's biggest surface ships since the war . |
| 12 | Oh , I can see I 'll have to teach you a thing or two about the Royal Navy . ’ |
| 13 | The Army team 's last hope in the Inter-Service Championship disappeared at Aldershot last week when they lost 2–0 to the Royal Navy , after being beaten by the R.A.F. the week before . |
| 14 | HMS Sheffield , like most of the Royal Navy 's other modern warships , carried a set of equipment code-named Abbey Hill . |
| 15 | Most of the Royal Navy 's frigates in the south Atlantic carried their own Exocets ( Britain is the biggest customer for the missile ) , which they might well have fired against Argentinian ships in an all-out naval war . |