Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] africa [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belgian-born Dr Michel Pacque , who first carried out tests of ivermectin with workers in a rubber plantation in Liberia over several years , is now taking up an appointment as consultant for Sight Savers ( Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind ) in West Africa with the task of organizing regular supplies . |
| 2 | To help support his family , he began writing articles calling for the defence of free trade in West Africa against the protectionism of the encroaching French and the special privileges of the Royal Niger Company . |
| 3 | The ignorance with which the outsiders set about overturning a perfectly satisfactory agricultural economy at Axholme suggests parallels with the notorious ground-nut scheme instigated in East Africa in the late 1940s . |
| 4 | Morocco , the only AMU country to send forces in support of the United States-led coalition in the Gulf , stressed that its 1,300-strong force in Saudi Arabia had a " defensive " role in guarding the Assafaniya oil refinery [ see also p. 37989 for opposition in North Africa to the Gulf war ] . |
| 5 | All the fighting in the campaign in North Africa by the main armies involved took place along the narrow strip between the sea and the escarpment that bordered the trackless wastes to the south . |
| 6 | Funny thing that , eleventh November has always been , I docked at Liverpool coming back from North Africa on the eleventh on the Good Friday I docked there , no , I 'd , I , no , no I docked at Liverpool coming back from India , that was about eh the eleventh we sailed from Bombay , that was about the twenty fourth I think . |
| 7 | In a further sign of improving links with black Africa , it was announced that during the weekend of de Klerk 's visit to Kenya , South African Airways flights were routed over west Africa for the first time for nearly 30 years , the government having secured overflight rights with Morocco , Mauritania , Mali and Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 8 | Returning from a visit to East Africa in the first week of February , Chalker announced that the UK would send a further 20,000 tonnes of food , worth £4,000,000 ( US$7,800,000 ) , in response to an appeal from the UN World Food Programme . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm an ex-Navy man actually , although sea legs are not something you acquire and never lose , ’ said Mr Fulton , who survived the sinking of HMS Ibis off North Africa during the Second World War . |
| 10 | Someone will probably tell me of the almost incredible persistence of the Karroo sandstones of southern and eastern Africa , or the Nubian sandstones across North Africa into the Middle East , or the Dakota Sandstone in the American West . |