Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in [noun prp] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They held a Soiree in January of the next year at which 140 were present ; tea was made in the manse kitchen . |
| 2 | They held a Soiree in January of the next year at which 140 were present ; tea was made in the manse kitchen . |
| 3 | Peace with France in 1713 , the accession of George I in the following year , and the easy suppression of a revolt in Scotland of the Jacobites ( the partisans of the exiled Stuarts ) in 1715 , changed this position completely . |
| 4 | The Paris talks were in preparation for a meeting in September of the so-called " Paris Club " of creditor countries . |
| 5 | It was reported on May 7 that a meeting in Paris of the Aid to Pakistan Consortium , made up of 14 Western countries and the World Bank , had approved aid totalling US$2,300 million . |
| 6 | Participants from the former Soviet republics attended for the first time on Nov. 23-24 a meeting in Paris of the 17-member Co-ordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls ( COCOM — once primarily a forum for controlling the acquisition of sensitive Western technology by the Soviet Union and its allies ) . |
| 7 | First , there was a meeting in Whitehall of the Economic Planning Council , followed by the conference at Trinity College Dublin , at which he had been invited to speak on the subject of European investment . |
| 8 | Deputy US trade representative Rufus Yerxa revealed the move before a meeting in Geneva of the governing council of Gatt ( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ) where he said the approval would be sought . |
| 9 | I write this having just returned from a meeting in Frankfurt of the Council of the Federation of European Credit Management Associations ( FECMA ) . |
| 10 | NATO Defence Ministers attended a meeting in Brussels of the Defence Planning Committee on May 22-23 and formally abandoned their 13-year-old target of 3 per cent real annual increases in national defence budgets [ see p. 36750 ] . |
| 11 | A call for the adoption of " new environmental ethics " was issued at the close of a meeting in Tokyo of the ad hoc " Eminent Persons Group " , comprised primarily of former statesmen . |
| 12 | At a meeting in Bonn of the Conference on Economic Co-operation in Europe on April 10 , 1990 , the Chair of the Soviet State Foreign Economic Commission , Stepan Sitaryan , urged COCOM to relax its rules covering exports to eastern Europe . |
| 13 | He was punished for publishing The Light and Dark Sides of God ( 1650 ) , copies of which were ordered to be burned , although George Thomason [ q.v. ] was still able to acquire a copy in November of the same year . |