Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 In the military sphere the measures which Kang suggested included the exchange of military personnel and information , the notification of significant troop movements and the establishment of a " hot-line " telecommunications link between the Defence Ministers of the two states .
4 Representatives of the defence industries of the four countries also lobbied for the continuation of the project .
5 Against the background of the thousands of jobs that have been lost in the defence industries in the past couple of years , and the thousands likely to be lost in the future , is not the Government 's initiative wholly inadequate ?
6 The Security Service is part of the Defence Forces of the country .
7 The Security Service is part of the Defence forces of the country .
8 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 .
9 Installed at San Salvatore , high above the Mediterranean near Portofino , the defence mechanisms of the four Englishwomen melt away .
10 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 ) .
11 There should have been a Government white paper to properly calculate the defence needs of the country .
12 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 ) .
13 The income resources of the elderly
14 The income statements of the two firms are as follows :
15 The above scenario helps to explain the part played by access to occupational pension scheme benefits in determining the income levels of the elderly women whose financial circumstances were studied between 1959 and 1965 .
16 erm , the adventure section was quite successful in a lot of respects they had quite a few people er attached to it , the scout group and the cub group , cub packs did n't have very many , but erm the adventure section had quite a few people , er and in fact we 've got people doing the tent stalls at the moment that are from a seventh mutant , which is , what it was and of course they 've disenfranchised if you like er but we 're looking , the district is looking to create a new group with Buckland
17 The researchers infected cells with both the plasmid and the virus , and relied on similarities between the vaccinia genes in the virus itself and those they had put in the plasmid to ensure that occasionally , the two would recombine .
18 Once MAS have identified a potentially interested party , it would , with your approval , reveal your identity and arrange an initial meeting between senior members of your own organisation and the majority shareholders of the possible target .
19 On Oct. 3 a statement issued in Abu Dhabi , one of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , by the majority shareholders of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , which had been closed down on July 5 , 1991 , amid allegations of massive corruption and fraud [ see p. 38355 ] , announced that they had withdrawn their support for an attempted rescue of the bank .
20 The majority shareholders at the same time expressed strong criticism of the Bank of England and other regulators over their handling of the affair .
21 A settlement was initialled on Feb. 20 by the majority shareholders in the failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI — see pp. 38355 ; 38545 ; 38737 ) and by the bank 's liquidators .
22 The result is that the shareholders in the target company become the majority shareholders in the acquiring company .
23 A reverse takeover offer is one where an offeror company makes a general offer to the shareholders of a larger company to acquire their shares in exchange for new shares in the offeror company , with the shareholders in the larger company becoming the majority shareholders in the offeror company .
24 This was denied and speculation that the paper would move from its traditional support of the Left was quashed by the four banks which are the majority shareholders in the group .
25 Simply expressed , parliamentary democracy and the representation of individual electors by unfettered parliamentary leaders is challenged in favour of party democracy and the representation of collective ( class ) interests where the majority wishes of the party activists outside Parliament in the constituencies are interposed between the parliamentary leaders and the electorate to limit the former and to provide the party programme for choice by the latter .
26 But watch out for the one-handed play of the gifted Gabriel Minadeo and the goalkeeping feats of the high-kicking Emanuel Roggero .
27 Consequently , more time can be spent by the clearinghouse personnel on the sophisticated and time-consuming enquiries which require information and material that has not been or can not be conveniently added to the database , an those which are of an advisory nature .
28 Of the 21 people who had been invited to join it , six were RSFSR ministers , three were Russians in industry and the remainder ministers from the other republics ( although not the Prime Ministers , who had been ex officio members of the dissolved Cabinet of Ministers ) .
29 Up to now the unity talks between the SARB and the black SARU have been far from smooth .
30 It may be unfortunate in the unity talks between the two opposing factions that Ebrahim Patel has thus far chosen to make what many would consider to be totally unrealistic demands for his 93-year-old SA Rugby Union .
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