Example sentences of "a [unc] [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The pledge brings total EC food aid to Ethiopia to 175,000 tonnes , after a 30,000-tonne gift of cereals in November , officials said .
2 The pledge brings total EC food aid to Ethiopia to 175,000 tonnes , after a 30,000-tonne gift of cereals in November , officials said .
3 They signed an agreement for closer co-operation on economic , technological and research activities , providing for the establishment of joint ventures and the opening of a US$3,000,000 line of credit to Bulgaria .
4 So I usually leave a er sheet of paper on the table and if you 're , if you 're interested in getting a free brochure what I shall do at the end of the course is to send this off er together with one of the cards that they let me have and er in due time you 'll get a free Saga magazine .
5 The operation carried with it a 1% risk of damage to the spinal cord and a 1-2% risk of damage to the nerve roots .
6 Here , for example , is Daniel Leech-Wilkinson reviewing in Early music an a cappella recording of chansons by Guillaume de Machaut ( a recording in which I can declare a special interest ) :
7 There is a +/- tolerance of 5% on all figures which will allow the designer to adjust length and width to structural and constructional constraints .
8 Were they were they men who had erm a l lot of expertise in in in the slate ?
9 Congress , our laws are weakened at the Tories request , and recent announcements that the public funding of trade union education is to be stopped has even brought a c cry of outrage from the Health and Safety Executive .
10 Her friend Rory Scott remembers her eating a 11b bag of sweets in short order during a bridge evening while her admission that she ate a bowl of custard before she went to bed added to the perplexity concerning her diet .
11 5 Tenders placed in the safe should be kept in the gorups that match the tender list with the deadline date on an A4 piece of paper on top .
12 Can you tell me erm how that applies , say if you went and bought an i article of clothing from a market stall
13 My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot .
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