Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] arms [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tension between Zhelev and Dimitrov increased dramatically in October when details emerged of an alleged arms scandal involving a prime ministerial adviser , Konstantin Mishev , and the chief of the country 's intelligence services , Gen. Brigo Asparukhov . |
| 2 | One of Mr Teicher 's first tasks was to write a report in support of an American arms sale to Iran . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the time it takes for military expenditure to result in an operational arms system can be anything between ten or twenty years . |
| 6 | Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte ) and his generals , who had been accused by all parties in the Congress of violating the Constitution , misleading the government and gross interference in political affairs , over an illegal arms shipment to Croatia . |
| 7 | 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 . |