Example sentences of "[adj] arms [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VARIOUS : ‘ White Sands ’ soundtrack from the forthcoming Mickey Rourke and Willem Dafoe movie about illicit arms dealings , featuring contributions by Little Feat and Dwight Yoakam |
| 2 | The Government has been resisting the removal of frontier controls because of anxieties about drugs and illicit arms traffickers . |
| 3 | As the east European member states of the former Warsaw Pact and Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA , or Comecon ) continued to experience severe economic difficulties in their transition to free-market systems , concerns were expressed during January and February at a series of incidents in which arms manufactured by those countries were supplied to Middle Eastern countries , apparently in contravention of the existing multilateral arms control provisions . |
| 4 | The research will examine the extent to which reductions in naval strengths can become part of the wider negotiated arms control process . |
| 5 | One advantage of this approach is that it allows time to test the technologies that build the confidence on which sensible arms control rests . |
| 6 | Agents posed as Iraqi arms salesmen to allegedly trap a Californian arms merchant , four officials of the former communist regime in Poland , and five officials of the Russian government . |
| 7 | THE Attorney-General 's statement on the collapsed Iraqi arms trial was a masterpiece of political-legal double-speak . |
| 8 | Secret memo exposes Iraqi arms cover-up |
| 9 | It buys weapons while Iraqi arms purchases are embargoed , and while UN inspectors prowl the Iraqi desert destroying chemical weapons and looking for the places where Mr Hussein may still be trying to build nuclear ones . |
| 10 | Labour and Liberal Democrats said the Northern Ireland Secretary had to make a Commons statement to clear up whether Government Ministers knew the Iraqi arms embargo was being broken . |
| 11 | One of the most interesting examples of this concerns the electronic arms race , as shown in the brain sizes of fossil animals . |
| 12 | Talk of a pre-emptive Israeli strike against the missiles meant the Saudis felt they needed stronger air defences to guard the missiles … and so the British arms sellers moved in . |
| 13 | Talk of a pre-emptive Israeli strike against the missiles meant the Saudis felt they needed stronger air defences to guard the missiles … and so the British arms sellers moved in . |
| 14 | The Franks Report said that British arms sales to Argentina encouraged the Falklands war . |
| 15 | An example of mistranslation occurred when President Kaunda returned from the Singapore Commonwealth Conference in 1970 , where he had clashed with the British prime Minister over British arms sales to South Africa . |
| 16 | Those who had heard about major items of foreign news — such as the Amin coup in Uganda , the deaths of Nasser in Egypt and Nkrumah in Ghana , or the proposed resumption of British arms sales in South Africa — had for the most part received the news from the radio . |
| 17 | On Sept. 7 Zifferero stressed that Iraq 's refusal to give details of its foreign arms suppliers stood in the way of full compliance with Gulf ceasefire resolutions . |
| 18 | The Ministry of Defence has been obliged to freeze its own orders to British industry in the run-up to the election , but a Downing Street spokesman said last night the civil service guidelines allowed the announcement of foreign arms sales . |
| 19 | The UN sanctions committee was also directed to develop a rigorous mechanism to monitor foreign arms sales to Iraq . |
| 20 | Mr Hussein is also said to have an indirect stake in Matra , a French arms company ( which is also a shareholder in Hachette ) , and in Germany 's Daimler-Benz . |
| 21 | During 1989 the Luchaire affair , concerning French arms sales to Iran between 1982 and 1986 when such sales were embargoed , threatened to develop into a major political scandal affecting the Defence Ministry and political parties on both the left and right [ see p. 35982 ] . |
| 22 | Among the passengers was Mahamat Soumaila , Chad 's Minister of Planning , seated next to Jacques Renaudat , a French arms dealer . |
| 23 | Throughout 1985–86 North continued shipments of arms to Iran in a series of complex deals involving sleazy arms dealers , shady middlemen , Swiss numbered bank accounts , suitcases stuffed with dollar bills , and all the trappings of dishonest behaviour one would associate with drug smugglers and the Mafia rather than a member of the White House staff . |
| 24 | No 27 in the Historical Arms series , Allied and Enemy Aircraft is a reprint of a rare identification manual published by the French government in 1918 that illustrated 60 aircraft of French , English , American , German , Italian and Belgian origin ( in three-view drawings ) that may have been seen over the trenches during World War One . |
| 25 | All German arms supplies to Turkey were suspended on March 26 , but it was then revealed on March 27 that 15 Leopard-1 main battle tanks had been supplied illegally to Turkey in late 1991 , due to a " bureaucratic error " and in contravention of a parliamentary ban of Nov. 7 on further deliveries of Leopard tanks supplied under a 1988 agreement . |
| 26 | The US proposal followed an intelligence assessment indicating that President Saddam Hussein had strengthened his position internally since the introduction of sanctions and that Iraq had been able to rebuild its infrastructure , including suspected arms production , through trade with Jordan and the illicit use of foreign bank reserves and gold sales . |
| 27 | When selected genes in one species provide the environment in which genes in another species are selected , the result is often an evolutionary arms race . |
| 28 | EC Foreign Ministers had on Nov. 4 told their five Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) counterparts , with whom they were meeting in Brussels , that they were unable for the time being to lift the sanctions that restricted arms sales to and diplomatic relations with Libya . |
| 29 | The Shah had visited Washington in November 1977 , towards the end of Carters election , and the new administration had impressed upon him that although the United States still regarded him as an important ally , the days of unrestricted arms sales , while arrest and torture by SAVAK were ignored by the US , were over , In fact , the Shah had already moderated SAVAK , released some political prisoners and allowed a little more criticism of his government to be expressed , even before Carter 's inauguration . |
| 30 | Not unnaturally it was handed to me , now being officially outside the Ministère and a recognised arms dealer . |