Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Public service broadcasting objectives were intertwined with two other issues : the state as arbiter between different interests ( programme companies , the cinema industry , etc. ( and state support for ‘ worthy ’ or ‘ noble causes ’ — the defence of the French language , of French film production , of programmes for children . |
| 32 | In the overhaul of government that accompanied the War of the Spanish Succession the servants of Philip V rejected the system of the Great Councils , less because it gave the grandees too much political power than because it was incurably inefficient and incapable of organizing the monarchy for the defence of the French dynasty . |
| 33 | Mainly because the defence of the territorial possessions of each individual church presented the clearest and most immediate duty of its head . |
| 34 | Some of the magnates were motivated by personal or local considerations : the northern lords , Wake , Neville and Percy , were concerned at the neglect of the defence of the northern border as Edward 's continental campaigns swallowed up all the available resources ; but Arundel , Warenne and Huntingdon do not seem to have had personal grievances against the king , and their role in the crisis still awaits a satisfactory explanation . |
| 35 | In 1323 Andrew Harclay , earl of Carlisle , who was of critical importance for the defence of the northern border of the realm , was executed on suspicion of treason . |
| 36 | He was wounded at the siege of Leith in 1560 and nine years later he stood against the northern rising , subsequently advising on the defence of the northern border . |
| 37 | The defence of the British Isles was , and only could be , conducted by the Government in London . |
| 38 | Few strategists would gainsay the primacy of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — upon which the sovereignty of the realm depends ; though , paradoxically , the United Kingdom has usually been so secure behind its sea walls that Home Defence has been accorded the lowest allocation of resources . |
| 39 | As far as the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — was concerned , the country was , paradoxically , more secure and yet more vulnerable than it had ever been . |
| 40 | Sandy 's view of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — was chillingly realistic : |
| 41 | Pitt realised that the defence of the British Isles could not be conducted in isolation and that the defence of the homeland must form part of a worldwide strategy . |
| 42 | These will include the relative gravity of the offences alleged in the two sets of proceedings ; the degree of connection , on facts or law , between them ; the degree of prejudice which the defendant may suffer , in the shape of adverse publicity or in other respects , if the lesser matters are brought to trial first ; the likely time-spans of the two sets of proceedings ; the possibility of hardship to the defendant in being required to divert attention and resources to the defence of the lesser charges whilst the graver are in preparation ; the risk that if the lesser charges are postponed the lapse of time may render a fair trial of them more difficult ; the desirability in the public interest of ensuring that charges properly brought are pressed to a conclusion . |
| 43 | Soviet Persian language broadcasts described the Soviet Gulf plan as aimed at the defence of the Persian Gulf countries against any foreign intervention and at securing the self-determination of the regional nations , including Iran . |
| 44 | It took the Belgians six hours to rush to the defence of the Red Cross compound and by that time the fighting was over . |
| 45 | The person who contributed most significantly to the defence of the Copernican system was Galileo . |
| 46 | Equally notable figures will spring to the defence of the secret deal , however . |
| 47 | They had only three working days in which to prepare the defence against the new charge . |
| 48 | The response of the Soviet government to these and other developments was threefold . |
| 49 | As American pressure increased , so the response of the Democratic Republic and the National Liberation Front , the Viet Cong , also reached a new level . |
| 50 | the response of the second generation to discrimination and social exclusion in general , and in the housing market in particular . |
| 51 | For many years the response of the Central Authority remained the traditional one of the physical planner : new investment , irrespective of any rate of return required , was determined by predictions of demand made in physical terms with no allowance for the effect of price increases . |
| 52 | The response of the established , mature players remains to be seen . |
| 53 | Perhaps the distinction between the response of the criminal law to a request that treatment be ended and to ( figuratively ) taking a knife to the patient rests on four basic and interrelated premisses . |
| 54 | So far the response of the private sector has been a very cautious one . |
| 55 | Other agencies have already been described — we are now concerned with the response of the private profession to these problems of cost and access . |
| 56 | The response of the 1960s and 70s to this failure to capture the essence of the traditional pub was the ruthlessly-applied corporate image and the proliferation of ‘ fun ’ theme-pubs . |
| 57 | Researchers have also measured the response of the superconducting properties of a potassium-doped buckyball compound to changes in pressure — one of the fundamental measurements of any new superconductor , as it sets immediate constraints on the theoretical interpretations of the material 's behaviour . |
| 58 | The response of the international community in assisting countries hard hit by the economic costs of the Gulf crisis included initiatives launched under the auspices of the IMF and the World Bank [ see p. 37730 ] , bilateral agreements , and EC funding . |
| 59 | The 5- and 6-string models in the range have a slightly extended scale length of 35″ to help the response of the low ‘ B ’ by increasing string tension . |
| 60 | Overall , however , the bulk of evidence on female crime suggests that sex plays a relatively minor role in determining the response of the legal system . |