Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is far from notional to suggest that the activities characteristic of the rivers and playing fields of late nineteenth-century Oxford and Cambridge were load-bearing supports underpinning the moral structure of British and imperial society . |
2 | The Western European Union ( WEU ) would become " the defence component of the Union " . |
3 | He had every hope that his longer-term plans would reduce the Defence share of the GDP from 7. 1 per cent down to 5 per cent by the end of his five-year programme . |
4 | More spending on fundamental research , which has stagnated in the defence budget for a number of years , was announced . |
5 | On the issue that the Secretary of State has just discussed with the defence spokesman of the Ulster Unionist party , the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone ( Mr. Maginnis ) , while holding that it should be a weapon in the armoury of any civilised Government to take out of circulation those who are seeking to destroy , murder and maim , will he give a full assurance to the House that he will undertake that act , if he has to do so , as a British Minister responsible to this House , and not in cliques with the Dublin Government who say that they would need to approve such a move ? |
6 | It is certainly true that much of the criticism of Leonard Arthur and doctors who believe as he did , was made ‘ in ignorance and misunderstanding of how the science and art of paediatrics is practised ’ as the defence counsel in the case claimed . |
7 | In conclusion he quoted directly from his statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia trial in 1964 [ see pp. 20245-46 ] : " I have fought against white domination , and I have fought against black domination . |
8 | Albert Mansur , the Defence Minister in the Hoss Cabinet , stated that the objective of the blockade was to use " peaceful and economic methods … to end the rebellion and reunify the military establishment " . |
9 | Everett , about 30 miles north of Seattle , has a not-quite-finished ‘ home port ’ , one of several relatively small bases started at the height of the defence build-up of the Reagan years . |
10 | In an FMLN mortar attack on the headquarters of the Defence Ministry in the capital , San Salvador , on Feb. 19 , one person was reported killed and eight others injured . |
11 | The Security Service is part of the Defence Forces of the country . |
12 | The Security Service is part of the Defence forces of the country . |
13 | They also agreed to take more of the defence burden from the USA . |
14 | TJ , who did not give evidence , was convicted and appealed , submitting that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong to rule that there was no breach of the Code ; ( 2 ) the judge wrongly told the jury that there had been no breach , thus undermining the defence speech to the jury on this point ; ( 3 ) the evidence was unsafe and unsatisfactory having regard to the evidence given by D ; and the judge should have withdrawn the case from the jury . |
15 | The question of strengthening the defence identity of the Union will be decided at the final stage of the conference . |
16 | It is two years since we were talking in those terms , and the defence policy of every party is now under review . |
17 | As a former Minister of Defence , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer , he was all too familiar with the Defence arguments in the Whitehall market-place . |
18 | ‘ It seems very likely , ’ concludes Mr Irwin , ‘ that had this evidence been available to the defence team at the time of the trial , the outcome would have been different . |
19 | My right hon. Friend will no doubt be aware of the importance of British Aerospace as a major employer in the defence industry in the north-west . |
20 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
21 | Similarly , in the secondary process the investment of energy is canalized by rules , by obstacles , that the defence mechanisms of the ego construct , which subordinate the possibility of energy discharge to the ‘ transformation of the relationship between the psychic apparatus and the external world ’ ( Lyotard 1984 , p. 58 ; Dews 1984 ) . |
22 | The debate on the defence section of the party 's policy review report , Britain in the World , brought to a head the anger felt in sections of the party over Neil Kinnock 's shift away from unilateralism . |
23 | There should have been a Government white paper to properly calculate the defence needs of the country . |
24 | The defence lawyer for a captain of the Fijian army ( who was convicted in 1990 of planning the abduction of university lecturer Dr Anirudh Singh ) said that his client ‘ was merely passing on … = the skills he got overseas ’ . |
25 | Then the output from the filter is where is the response function of the filter ; i.e. is the output at time t when the input is a delta function at t = 0 . |
26 | Different groups , using slightly different recording techniques , can end up with quite different descriptions of the response properties of the cells in the same region because they are , in fact , recording from different cell populations ( O'Keefe and Conway 1978 ; Olds , Disterhoft , Segal , Kornblith , and Hirsh 1972 ; Stryker and Sherk 1975 ) . |
27 | Mr Threlfall said that according to the service 's records the response time to the incident had been 24 minutes . |
28 | The response time between the instant at which the operator strikes a key and that at which the reply from the system begins to appear on the screen should be less than one second . |
29 | As a result the response time of a program in the real , competitive system can be three times longer than that achieved on a single lexicographer machine . |
30 | Note that as the number of users specified at this keyword increases so does the USER DETAILS data transfer time and the response time of the USER DETAILS related views . |