Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] commonwealth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Egypt and North Africa had proved how swiftly modern mobile forces could overrun quite considerable distances , and in the summer months of 1942 , the British and Commonwealth forces were again back in Egypt , relying on overstretched supply lines . |
| 2 | HENRY WHARTON , the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight champion , is expected to enter hospital within the next few days to undergo an operation on his troublesome right hand . |
| 3 | Against heavy German resistance , the British and Commonwealth forces advanced along the north , or left , flank , while the two American armies under Generals George Patton and Omar Bradley pushed forward on the south , or right , flank . |
| 4 | BOXING : Colin McMillan , the British and Commonwealth featherweight champion , is set for a world title chance if he beats American Steve Thibodeaux at Dagenham on March 25 . |
| 5 | With Lewis 's share likely to be around £5.5m for the fight of his life , the British and Commonwealth champion 's handers would have to break the bank to shift the fight from Las Vegas - but they have n't entirely given up hope . |
| 6 | With Lewis 's share likely to be around £5.5m , the British and Commonwealth champion 's handlers would have to break the bank to shift the challenge from Las Vegas . |
| 7 | If so , her utterances are covered by the advice of her UK ministers , notably the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 8 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office sees the gesture as ‘ one small but symbolic way of rebuilding some of the bridges destroyed after Tiananmen Square ’ , a diplomat said . |
| 9 | Labour will set up a Human Rights Division in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , and require all Britain 's diplomatic posts abroad to appoint an officer to monitor human rights . |
| 10 | Government policy towards Argentina and the Falkland Islands was never formally discussed outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office after January 1981 . |
| 11 | To cut a long story short , such is Smiley 's loathing for government that he has decided to establish his own private nation on Henderson Island , The Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) has neither accepted nor refused Smiley 's request For permission to build himself a family-sized mansion and an airstrip on Henderson . |
| 12 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said yesterday that padlocks securing a barrier at Orford Ness , former home of a top secret defence establishment , had been severed with bolt cutters on at least two occasions during the past six months . |
| 13 | The National Trust is presently negotiating to buy the land from the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) which runs a BBC World Service relay station sited on the ness . |
| 14 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office had rather greater concerns than Paul Fabian and his tiny High Commission and Residency on the seafront of Nuku'alofa . |
| 15 | From our side , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have been very firm too . |
| 16 | The building , a powerful monument to the Cold War between East and West , is now owned by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and used as a BBC World Service relay station , staffed by just four employees.It is not within the 1,560 acre property purchased by the National Trust.Merlin Waterson , the Trust 's regional director , who accompanied yesterday 's visit by ferry from Orford Quay , said a study was under way into which of the buildings should be preserved . |
| 17 | In the United Kingdom , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is the Central Authority but ‘ other authorities ’ designated for England , Scotland and Northern Ireland discharge the practical functions , and all are more closely court-related officers ( e.g. in England , the Senior Master of the Supreme Court ) . |
| 18 | The request was addressed to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office which is the central authority of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Convention . |
| 19 | The initial application was for : ( i ) Madame Bihi to be joined as a party to the proceedings as a representative of the Democratic Republic of Somalia ; ( ii ) paragraph 3 of the order of Saville J. not to be brought into effect , ( iii ) the court to direct letters to be written to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office asking what state in Somalia was recognised by Her Majesty 's Government as a foreign sovereign state and with what entity , if any , therein Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings of a governmental nature ; and ( iv ) the court to request the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae . |
| 20 | In relation to Somalia and the present litigation , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has on three occasions responded to inquiries by solicitors and Mr. Richards has also conveyed to the court a further communication . |
| 21 | On 5 August 1991 , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote to Crossman Block confirming that the practice of Her Majesty 's Government was to recognise states not governments and that , accordingly , ‘ The question of whether to recognise the purported ‘ interim government ’ in Mogadishu thus does not arise for us . ’ |
| 22 | On 20 February 1992 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote again to More Fisher Brown . |
| 23 | Once the question for the court becomes one of making its own assessment of the evidence , making findings of fact on all the relevant evidence placed before it and drawing the appropriate legal conclusion , and is no longer a question of simply reflecting government policy , letters from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office become merely part of the evidence in the case . |
| 24 | The statements of fact in the letters from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are confirmed by the other evidence that is before the court concerning the actual situation in Somalia . |
| 25 | This report , like the letter from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , refers to the various ‘ factions . ’ |
| 26 | " The Foreign and Commonwealth Office want us to take a Danish biologist for two or three days next month . |
| 27 | If this was not the primary motivation within the Treasury , then it certainly was amongst those in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who were keen not to be ‘ out of step ’ in Europe . |
| 28 | The answer given by Tristan Garel-Jones , a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , was instructive . |
| 29 | As early as 4 April 1990 there was the following exchange between him and Francis Maude , then Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office : |
| 30 | Will my right hon. Friend and others involved in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office accept congratulations on the patience with which that huge problem has been tackled ? |