Example sentences of "a [adj] arm [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it does come to giving assistance , remember this is living tissue , it is not a strong arm fight , it is not a macho business or a battle of the sexes . |
| 2 | Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi arms dealer , is being tried with her , accused of helping out in the property deals . |
| 3 | Warsaw Pact deputy foreign ministers and military commanders meeting in Prague agreed on Oct. 27 to cut 490 tanks and 400 artillery pieces from their conventional arms holdings , clearing the way for a European arms treaty due to be signed in Paris in November . |
| 4 | The UN Security Council , convened at the request of France on Sept. 25 , adopted Resolution 713 sponsored by Belgium , France and the UK calling for a complete arms embargo on Yugoslavia and the immediate cessation of hostilities and requesting the Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , to assist with mediation . |
| 5 | When wintry weather looms over the horizon reach for the latest Freemans catalogue and choose your wardrobe from a favourite arm chair . |
| 6 | Mr Hussein is also said to have an indirect stake in Matra , a French arms company ( which is also a shareholder in Hachette ) , and in Germany 's Daimler-Benz . |
| 7 | Among the passengers was Mahamat Soumaila , Chad 's Minister of Planning , seated next to Jacques Renaudat , a French arms dealer . |
| 8 | Not unnaturally it was handed to me , now being officially outside the Ministère and a recognised arms dealer . |
| 9 | ‘ I had repeated arguments with my coach Harold Howcroft , because I preferred a straight arm recovery , but that suited my style better than the alternative . |
| 10 | Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race . |
| 11 | The key comparison here involves the areas of sympatry , which allows us to catch a glimpse of the dynamics of evolution and to test the view that cuckoos and hosts are engaged in a coevolutionary arms race , with cuckoos being one step ahead in areas of recent sympatry . |
| 12 | From my present point of view the question of whether the manufacturers on opposite sides of a human arms race are enemies of each other or identical with each other is irrelevant , and interestingly so . |
| 13 | A Soviet-made pistol was found at the scene of the explosion and a large arms cache — including 17 mines , assault rifles and hand grenades — was later discovered at the home of the two men . |
| 14 | In October 1987 the army clashed with an armed group in Gaza and later arrested over fifty Islamic Jihad suspects and uncovered a large arms cache . |
| 15 | In December 1989 the following security developments were reported : ( i ) the seizure by the police on Dec. 5 of a large arms cache and the arrest of five people suspected of being members of a white extremist assassination squad ; ( ii ) the acquittal of 12 police officers and a soldier on Dec. 11 by the Cape Town Supreme Court in South Africa 's first private prosecution for murder , arising from the 1985 " Trojan Horse " ambush in which three people were killed , and brought by the father of Shaun Magmoed , 16 , one of those killed in the attack ; and ( iii ) the setting aside on Dec. 15 of the convictions against all 11 defendants in the " Delmas " treason trial , which had ended in December 1988 [ see p. 36913 ] . |
| 16 | It would be interesting to know whether humans with hippocampal damage are impaired on the equivalent of a radial arm maze . |
| 17 | The club have opted for a left arm spinner Jamie Stewart from Western Australia as their pro . |
| 18 | Well I should think you 'd see that spin attack turn the tables whatever the weather was really , and we 've also got Peter Bradbury who 's taken more wickets in the Cherwell lead than anybody this year , so we 've got three first line County standard off spinners er or rather two off spinners and a left arm spinner . |
| 19 | Suggesting that " the time is right to move forward on a conventional arms control agreement , to move towards more appropriate levels of military forces in Europe " , he proposed that the USA and the Soviet Union should each reduce to 195,000 the number of their combat forces in central and eastern Europe . |
| 20 | Party colleagues , notably Mr Singh , deserted him , and his own reputation was tarnished by allegations that he had taken bribes from Bofors , a Swedish arms company . |
| 21 | The electronic and acoustic weapons systems of bats , which we discussed in Chapter 2 , have all the finely tuned sophistication that we expect from the end-products of a long arms race . |
| 22 | The EPLF , however , continued to claim that Israel was a major arms supplier , notably of cluster bombs , Kfir aircraft and Soviet-made tanks , and that Israel sought to develop military base facilities . |
| 23 | The conclusion of a major arms agreement with the United States was perhaps the central achievement ; but still more important was the restoration of normal relations with the other global superpower after the collapse of detente in the late 1970s . |
| 24 | Even Mickey Rourke , after an abysmal run of roles , makes a respectable ‘ comeback ’ as a charismatic arms dealer . |
| 25 | In the case of a biological arms race , on the other hand , we can usually see only the end-products . |
| 26 | A nuclear arms race is a good recipe for national bankruptcy but it is very profitable for those who design and manufacture the weapons . |
| 27 | The DIA 's interest in them sprang from their association with a Chinese arms dealer named David King , also known as David Loo Choy , who represented the People 's Republic of China and had played a part in the North network 's illegal supply of arms to the Nicaraguan Contras in association with Monzer al-Kassar . |
| 28 | Were any of these four arm rou it 's a five arm roundabout is n't it ? |
| 29 | They 've all come from the same factory — a small arms factory in Belgium . |
| 30 | Patients were considered malnourished if they ( a ) had lost more than 10% usual body weight or had a serum albumin of <30 g/l ; and ( b ) also had a triceps skinfold thickness ( TSF ) of <90% adult reference range or a mid arm muscle circumference ( MAMC ) <90% reference range . |