Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Only with line B , and with its last word , is it made clear that the image of the whole couplet is of sacrifice ; the burning of line A must be of wood upon the sacrificial altar . |
| 32 | The present Thai government , one of the least corrupt in recent memory , is trying to make the rule of law a theme of its administration . |
| 33 | I 've worked out that a rent of tenpence a week on each log cabin , or sixpence for each bunk in a dormitory , will just pay me back by the end of this contract . |
| 34 | The association also calculated that , over and above income support , the same claimant would have received £360 in housing benefit , on a typical rent of £30 a week . |
| 35 | But as long the rent of £10,000 a year continues to be paid , council officers are n't bothered if Mrs Maxwell lives there or not . |
| 36 | By a lease under seal made on September 24 , 1937 , the plaintiffs , Central London Property Trust Ltd. , granted to the defendants High Trees House Ltd. , a subsidiary of the plaintiff company , a tenancy of a block of flats for the term of 99 years from September 29 , 1937 , at a ground rent of £2,500 a year . |
| 37 | The farmer receives a rent of £15,000 a year and is relieved of the need to do any work for it . |
| 38 | A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood . |
| 39 | The terms were a payment of £325 and a ground rent of £1 a year . |
| 40 | The Prudential Assurance-owned unit has attracted a rent of £8,000 a year for a 15-year lease and has subsequently been put up for sale . |
| 41 | She now has a bill of £500 from the council for over-payment of housing benefit , a sum that she has difficulty in repaying on a net income after rent of £23 a week . |
| 42 | The estate agents negotiated a lease at a rent of £20,000 a year . |
| 43 | Nor can one tell the normal value of a mine , although some must have given considerable yields — Wolsey , as bishop of Durham , let out one at a rent of £180 a year ( 82 , pp.164–5 ) . |
| 44 | To celebrate the Merger of the University with Jordanhill College of Education a Merger Congregation will take place in the Barony Hall on 1 April 1993 . |
| 45 | A graphic example was given me when on my first day of lecturing in a college of education a student came up and earnestly asked me : " Do you believe the Bible — yes or no ? " |
| 46 | In 1976 the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) awarded the Royal College of Art a grant to study signing and labelling in libraries , museums and other information centres . |
| 47 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |
| 48 | These relationships , which cross the boundaries of the binary line between the maintained and autonomous sectors of higher education in Wales , give the College of Librarianship a unique flavour . |
| 49 | KALMYKIA is a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian federation with a population of 320,000 , no trees , a universal drink of tea mingled with mutton fat , and a 30-year-old Buddhist president who claims to control 50 companies with a combined turnover of $100m a year . |
| 50 | Until recently , government sales accounted for roughly 90% of O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt 's turnover of $10m a year . |
| 51 | Behr employs more than 9,000 people in the manufacture of car heating and air conditioning and engine cooling systems for a host of class motoring firms including BMW , Mercedes-Benz , Porsche and Volkswagen and has a turnover of £460m a year . |
| 52 | The nineteenth-century agricultural historian Youatt calculated that in the second half of the eighteenth century every Londoner purchased an average of half a pound of meat a day — more than twice as much as the average in Paris or Brussels . |
| 53 | I have two pound of butter a week . |
| 54 | I have two pound of butter a week . |
| 55 | Mr Lamont 's Budget will give a tax cut of £100 a year to the average family . |
| 56 | Chekhov said : ’ In search of truth a man takes two steps forward and one step back . |
| 57 | If the reverse were true , coal would be delivered free to the generators with a cash bonus of £10 a tonne . |
| 58 | Of the forty-odd subheadings in the plan only two point explicitly towards drama , " Socratism in tragedy " ( under " aesthetics " ) and " The tragedians and the state " ( under " politics … " ) , although in the retrospective light of BT a considerable number of the others can be seen as bearing specifically on the tragic ethos : for instance , " music and poetry " , " Aristotle 's aesthetic " , " ecstatic art in Greece " , " Dionysus and Apollo " . |
| 59 | He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago . |
| 60 | Over five years , an investment of £10 a month into a hypothetical fund based on the average performances of all the ethical/green funds listed would now be worth £822.32 which as the table on average sector performance shows , is the best performance of any sector bar Far East Excluding Japan and North America . |