Example sentences of "a [adj] arms [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN Security Council , convened at the request of France on Sept. 25 , adopted Resolution 713 sponsored by Belgium , France and the UK calling for a complete arms embargo on Yugoslavia and the immediate cessation of hostilities and requesting the Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , to assist with mediation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 've all come from the same factory — a small arms factory in Belgium . |
| 4 | Relations with Russia worsened after Georgian forces seized a Russian arms depot in southern Georgia on Nov. 2 . |
| 5 | On Nov. 20 the UN Security Council passed a unanimous resolution imposing a mandatory arms embargo on Liberia , giving broad support to the ECOWAS action , and authorizing the UN Secretary-General to send a special representative to the country . |
| 6 | The aim of this was to ensure that America would become a permanent arms economy in which the state would underwrite American corporations through their guarantee of demand for the high technology goods which these corporations had invested in during the war . |