Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You only have to look around to assent to the truth of this bitter observation : contamination is the norm , corruption is the accepted social lubricant , deceit the everyday fuel , whether in the intimacy of personal relationships or in the public arena of the affairs of state . |
| 2 | Blackburn Rovers have lost the tag of runaway leaders and championship certainties . |
| 3 | Caps on discretionary spending were not raised , nor was spending transferred from the defence to domestic programmes . |
| 4 | The UDC decided against taking up the issue , judging that , despite the breadth of opposition , when the Government made up its mind that conscription was necessary , the defence of civil liberties would crumble before the appeals of patriotism . |
| 5 | Criticizing Vatra Romaneasca ( Romanian Hearth — a nationalist organization for the defence of Romanian interests in Transylvania ) , Tokes demanded a statement about its proposal to investigate him and nine others for " threatening the security of Romania " . |
| 6 | He goes on to argue that the situational theory , the defence of established institutions , most closely meets these criteria . |
| 7 | The Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights , a radical anti-statist grouping whose members included some repealers , launched a counter-attack against the new act , complaining that : ‘ Miss Hopkins … is at present … crying for the wholesale kidnapping of little girls who may not have perfect domestic surroundings and their consignment to large prison schools . ’ |
| 8 | Opposition from the Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights and from parliamentary Liberals and trade-union leaders focused on the growing threat to personal liberty . |
| 9 | Spain also began to attract attention , especially in the context of the defence of Allied lines of communication in the Atlantic and into the western Mediterranean . |
| 10 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 11 | The 17 were reported to have been arrested after the Committee for the Defence of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria had issued leaflets in December 1991 criticizing the Dec. 2 referendum which gave overwhelming approval to Assad 's nomination for a fourth term as President [ see p. 38695 ] . |
| 12 | Twelve members of dissident groups , six of whom were from the Association for the Defence of Political Rights ( Adepo ) and four from the Free Art Association ( Apal ) , campaigning for a multiparty system and free elections , were arrested before or during the Congress . |
| 13 | There was also the defence of present practices . |
| 14 | What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it . |
| 15 | While an individual may have a duty to act in the defence of moral principles , the same can not apply to the state , since the state 's action has to be judged by a different criterion : that of national survival . |
| 16 | The primacy of the church and the defence of clerical privileges were viewed by Pecham as the self-evident basis of a sound secular government and a healthy society . |
| 17 | Sergei Kovalyov , biophysicist and co-founder with Sakharov of the Initiative Group for the Defence of Human Rights in the Soviet Union , was sentenced in 1974 to seven years in a labour camp followed by three years of internal exile . |
| 18 | Moncef Triki is President of the Tunis office of the Association for the Defence of Human Rights and Public Liberties and worked with families of Islamic detainees investigating details of their arrest and detention . |
| 19 | All eight are prisoners of conscience , detained solely for peaceful political activity , including the defence of human rights . |
| 20 | Also on Dec. 23 , leading intellectuals set up the first independent human rights monitoring group , the Forum for the Defence of Human Rights , which set itself the goal of the release of all political prisoners . |
| 21 | Representatives from the recently formed Forum for the Defence of Human Rights met on Feb. 12 with the then Interior Minister Hekuran Isai , and received from him a list of 108 political prisoners who had been released unannounced since Jan. 6 , according to a Forum statement issued on Feb. 18 . |
| 22 | On Aug. 12 , however , the chairman of the League for the Defence of Human Rights said that more than 300 people had died and over 8,000 had been arrested during the recent disturbances . ) |
| 23 | Algerian radio reported that on Jan. 16 Ait Ahmed had met with two FIS leaders , Abdelkader al-Hachani ( described as chairman of the FIS provisional executive bureau ) and Mohammed Said , at the offices of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights . |
| 24 | A Nigerian group , the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights ( CDHR ) , claimed in a report published on April 18 that the security forces had routinely tortured suspects and had carried out at least 27 summary executions in 1991 . |
| 25 | Beko Ransome Kuti , the president of the Nigerian Committee for the Defence of Human Rights ( CDHR ) and chair of the Campaign for Democracy ( CD ) , was along with four others brought to court on June 15 in Gwagwalada , a small town 100 km from Abuja and about 400 km north of Lagos . |
| 26 | In many of these projects France , we shall argue , apparently succeeds better than Britain in equating the defence of national champions with European joint ventures . |
| 27 | Where weavers , knitters and the like existed as communities of producers the defence of customary standards and expectations was more evident than calculative bargaining . |
| 28 | During his last years he was involved in a bitter and ramified dispute with Edmund , Earl of Cornwall , in the defence of ecclesiastical rights following the encroachments of the earl and his agents . |
| 29 | The frequency with which campaigns were organized in the 1340s , 1350s and 1370s and the need to provide substantial forces for the defence of English-held castles and towns encouraged the nobility to maintain permanent forces which might be augmented by the use of sub-contractors when necessary . |
| 30 | But this has also ensured that when these structures become racialized , elders and women become mobilized around the defence of public proprieties while male youth become locked in struggles for territorial dominance . |