Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] arms [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A joint statement on Dec. 12 announced " good progress " on the completion of a strategic arms reduction treaty ( START ) [ see also p. 37518 ] , and expressed the hope that a treaty would be ready for signing during a Bush-Gorbachev summit meeting , scheduled for Feb. 11-13 , 1991 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One of Mr Teicher 's first tasks was to write a report in support of an American arms sale to Iran . |
| 4 | In the case of a biological arms race , on the other hand , we can usually see only the end-products . |
| 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 | Structuralists trace it to the workings of a permanent arms economy , necessary both to capitalism and to state capitalism . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They were ( i ) the establishment of a permanent arms control verification staff to help monitor compliance with arms control agreements ; ( ii ) the assumption of an active role in the settlement of regional conflicts , even outside Europe ; ( iii ) redefinition of Western efforts to prevent proliferation of ballistic missile technology as well nuclear and chemical weapons ; ( iv ) promotion of initiatives through the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE-for May-June 1989 session see pp. 36749-50 ) to build new economic and political ties with Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ALAN DAVIES is reportedly keen to repeat the experiment of last September when a ‘ warm-up ’ match was played against the French on a balmy September evening at a floodlit Arms park . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Baker and Bessmertnykh failed during talks in Geneva on June 7 and in Berlin on June 20 to settle remaining differences over a strategic arms reduction treaty ( START ) [ see pp. 37979 ; p. 38255 ] . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | THE American government has seized assets of a Chilean arms dealer who allegedly took part in a complex $1 billion ( £575m ) fraud that brought defence group Ferranti to the brink of collapse . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The most significant single development at the summit was the signing of a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty which committed each side to a reduction of 30 per cent in its stock of weapons . |
| 18 | US Defence Department officials reported on Nov. 28 that the proposed cuts up to 1994 were a " worst case projection " and the maximum possible , based upon a projected CFE agreement and signing of a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START-for June 1989 session see p. 36751 ) , with 50 per cent cuts in Soviet and US strategic nuclear arsenals . |
| 19 | Soviet and United States arms control negotiators resumed talks in Washington on Jan. 21 aimed at clearing obstacles to a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) on cutting long-range nuclear arsenals by 30 per cent . |