Example sentences of "an [adj] arms [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In making his proposal Gore cited new evidence made public by the Financial Times and by ABC News Nightline , which quoted an Iranian arms dealer , Jamshid Hashemi , who claimed to have been present at two meetings between the late William Casey , the Reagan campaign chairman , and members of the Iranian government , held in Madrid in late July and mid-August 1980 . |
| 2 | When selected genes in one species provide the environment in which genes in another species are selected , the result is often an evolutionary arms race . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the time it takes for military expenditure to result in an operational arms system can be anything between ten or twenty years . |
| 4 | The two leaders on June 17 signed an unprecedented arms reduction agreement which would eventually cut the two powers ' nuclear arsenals by two-thirds , going far beyond the START treaty signed by President Bush and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in July 1991 [ see p. 38320 ] . |
| 5 | In the case of an asymmetric arms race , between a lineage of weapons and the specific antidotes to those weapons , it is the one-to-one correspondences that , over the successive ‘ generations ’ , lead to ever greater sophistication and complexity . |
| 6 | It is obvious , when you come to think about it , that my picture of an ever-advancing arms race was too simple in at least one respect . |
| 7 | A congressional committee has been inquiring into why Augusto Pinochet junior , who calls himself an international arms adviser , received cheques worth nearly $3m from the army , apparently for his share in a rifle factory , and whether the old general knew his son stood to benefit . |
| 8 | Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte ) and his generals , who had been accused by all parties in the Congress of violating the Constitution , misleading the government and gross interference in political affairs , over an illegal arms shipment to Croatia . |
| 9 | The latter hurt Israel far more than the Arab states because France had long been an important arms supplier to Israel . |
| 10 | Tension between Zhelev and Dimitrov increased dramatically in October when details emerged of an alleged arms scandal involving a prime ministerial adviser , Konstantin Mishev , and the chief of the country 's intelligence services , Gen. Brigo Asparukhov . |
| 11 | Differences were also reported centring on Soviet and Chinese fears that an immediate arms reduction plan for the Middle East would imply a freeze of Israeli weapons superiority over Arab states . |
| 12 | Television and radio carried brief reports , while the the story squeezed on to the front page of the national evening newspaper Izvestia , between larger accounts of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's row with Ukraine and an explosion at an Armenian arms depot . |
| 13 | One of Mr Teicher 's first tasks was to write a report in support of an American arms sale to Iran . |