Example sentences of "a [adj] arms " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi arms dealer , is being tried with her , accused of helping out in the property deals . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | France has grown faster ; maintained a different balance between nuclear and conventional forces ; followed a different arms export policy ; pursued autonomy from the US ; and spent less on defence in relation to GDP . |
| 5 | Among the passengers was Mahamat Soumaila , Chad 's Minister of Planning , seated next to Jacques Renaudat , a French arms dealer . |
| 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 | Not unnaturally it was handed to me , now being officially outside the Ministère and a recognised arms dealer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | BROOD parasites and their hosts are thought to engage in a coevolutionary arms race in which parasitism selects for adaptive defences by the host ( such as egg rejection ) , which in turn select for counter-adaptations by the parasite ( such as egg mimicry ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | The visit was Saw Maung 's first foreign trip since the SLORC takeover in September 1988 ; reports in February 1991 had claimed that Myanma had agreed to purchase a large arms package from China [ see p. 38005 ] . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | SECURITY Forces uncovered over a ton of fertiliser during a major arms search in west Belfast yesterday . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Jiang 's visit had been preceded by a visit to China by the then Soviet Defence Minister Marshal Dmitry Yazov , which fuelled speculation about a major arms deal between the two countries . |
| 23 | In the first months of Kennedy 's presidency the United States not only undertook a substantial arms build up , but also began to float new ideas in strategic doctrine , most notably Maxwell Taylor 's theory of flexible response . |
| 24 | A fortnight later one thousand men , with a thousand legs , a thousand arms and a thousand eyes between them , were ordered home . |
| 25 | Even Mickey Rourke , after an abysmal run of roles , makes a respectable ‘ comeback ’ as a charismatic arms dealer . |
| 26 | In the case of a biological arms race , on the other hand , we can usually see only the end-products . |
| 27 | A nuclear arms race is a good recipe for national bankruptcy but it is very profitable for those who design and manufacture the weapons . |
| 28 | In so doing , it threatens to ignite a nuclear arms race in Asia that could prompt South Korea , Taiwan and Japan to develop nuclear arsenals . |
| 29 | Part D , in favour a nuclear arms freeze , was adopted by 136 votes to 13 ( NATO countries , bar Denmark which voted in favour and Spain which abstained ) with 5 abstentions . |
| 30 | 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 . |