Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open the jacket potatoes lengthways and pile the chilli beans on top . |
| 2 | We thought we were just being cute last week when we hung the tag MABI on Apple 's multi-platform Cat in the Hat Macintosh Application Services ( MAS ) strategy ( UX No 435 ) . |
| 3 | If an " add " instruction is being executed , the hardware of the computer examines the tag fields of the two operands , and selects the correct form of " add " , whether the fixed-point , short or long floating-point , decimal digit string , or some other data-type . |
| 4 | Under the Defence regulations in 1916 , sidelamps in little wooden boxes were fitted to the top of the dash , like their Corporation counterparts . |
| 5 | He has put down a Commons motion condemning the Defence Secretary for ‘ the arbitrary action which he is taking to extinguish the ancient rights of common [ … ] for political reasons to prevent the women 's peace camp from continuing their peaceful demonstrations ’ . |
| 6 | It was reported on April 11 , 1990 , that tapes of an interview held following the 1975 trial , between Gerard Conlon , one of the Four , and Peter ( now Sir Peter ) Imbert , now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , who was at the time of the trial a bomb squad superintendent , were becoming a source of conflict between the police and the defence lawyers at the judicial inquiry . |
| 7 | in a Cabinet reshuffle on June 29 Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong relinquished the Defence portfolio to Yeo Ning Hong , hitherto Second Minister for Defence and Minister for Communications . |
| 8 | The interim government which would replace the IJC was to be headed by Rabbani , and a number of portfolios were allocated to various groups , including the premiership to Hekmatyar and the Defence portfolio to Masud . |
| 9 | Saw Maung had relinquished the Foreign Affairs portfolio to U Ohn Gaw in September 1991 and the Defence portfolio in March 1992 . |
| 10 | In a reshuffle on July 14 , 1990 , Maj. Osvaldo Lopes da Silva was replaced as Minister of Transport , Trade and Tourism by Omar Lima , and Pires assumed the Defence portfolio from Maj. Julio de Carvalho , who was hitherto prominent in the party leadership . |
| 11 | Joint UK-Italian proposals on Oct. 4 envisaged that the WEU would develop aims " not contradictory but compatible " with its becoming " the defence component of the [ European ] union " . |
| 12 | The Western European Union ( WEU ) would become " the defence component of the Union " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The navy reckons it can buy updated versions of the McDonnell Douglas/Northrop A-18 for around $35m each — less capable , perhaps , than Grumman says its F-14 derivative would be , but with the defence budget under tremendous pressure , the ‘ sticker price ’ makes all the difference . |
| 15 | More spending on fundamental research , which has stagnated in the defence budget for a number of years , was announced . |
| 16 | Yes , it is clear that , as my hon. Friend says , Labour would cut the defence budget to ribbons . |
| 17 | An attempt by liberal Democrat Bill Bradley to waive the rules of the previous year 's budget agreement in order to transfer 2 per cent of the defence budget to additional domestic spending was defeated by 73 votes to 22 . |
| 18 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 19 | The reduction in numbers would reduce the charge on the defence budget by 10 per cent . |
| 20 | He would ‘ responsibly reduce ’ the defence budget by cutting new weapons purchases and troop levels . |
| 21 | The government 's solution relies on a sharp switch from long-term capital investment and the defence sector towards food and consumer goods production and improving social services . |
| 22 | So far , a survey has been conducted of companies in the defence sector in Scotland and work is in hand to develop the best approach to assisting these companies . |
| 23 | Aerospace and electronics have been chosen as case studies , these sectors being representative of the defence sector in general but sufficiently different to provide useful comparisons . |
| 24 | They are completely incompatible with the defence policies of NATO , and can not be reconciled with Labour 's policy as currently declared . |
| 25 | While I am far too gentle and decent a person to criticise any Opposition Member who has joined in the expressions of appreciation of this action , I have to say , in the kindest possible way , that if the defence policies to which the Opposition subscribe — I include all the Opposition parties — were implemented , we should not be ordering a rowing boat , let alone three frigates . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | The women claim that the existence of commoners ' rights invalidates the defence bylaws under which thousands have been fined or imprisoned for trespassing inside the base . |
| 28 | Before becoming deputy chairman of the Defence Council under Gorbachev , Baklanov had been in the CPSU secretariat [ see p. 38131 ] , and had worked for the military-industrial complex . |
| 29 | In his summing up , the defence barrister for Shaun Gooch said that ’ he would never get out of his mind that his car was an instrument of death ’ . |
| 30 | Stane Brovet , the Deputy Defence Minister , also warned the defence committee of the Federal Assembly on May 8 that the JNA had exhausted existing ways of trying to avert ethnic conflict , and he accused republic leaders and the media of creating a fratricidal atmosphere . |