  In this paper, we establish some modified defect relations for the Gauss map
$g$ of a complete minimal surface $S\subset\mathbb R^m$ into a $k$-dimension
projective subvariety $V\subset\mathbb P^n(\mathbb C)\ (n=m-1)$ with
hypersurfaces $Q_1,\ldots,Q_q$ of $\mathbb P^n(\mathbb C)$ in $N$-subgeneral
position with respect to $V\ (N\ge k)$. In particular, we give the bound above
for the number $q$ if the image $g(S)$ intersects a finite number of times each
hypersurfaces $Q_1,\ldots,Q_q$ and $g$ is nondegenerate over $I_d(V)$, where
$d=lcm(deg Q_1,\ldots,deg Q_q)$, i.e., the image of $g$ is not contained in any
hypersurface $Q$ of degree $d$ with $V\not\subset Q$. Our results extend and
generalise previous results for the case of the Gauss map and hyperplanes in
the projective spaces.
