Example sentences of "a [noun] of [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the truth of this , in 994 he and Olaf Tryggvason , possibly also his ally in 991 , made an unsuccessful attack on London , and then ravaged Essex , Kent , Sussex and Hampshire before taking winter quarters in Southampton and receiving a payment of £16,000 . |
| 2 | A reference to a payment of £10 , towards a Survey carried out by the Greenodd Canal Co. , is of very great interest . |
| 3 | These preference shares were allotted to the relations of the respondent and his wife and two of them to their children in consideration of a payment of £10 each in cash . |
| 4 | They soon had to leave the School Cottage where they had lived , but they were granted a payment of £5 for " the bath and fittings " left in the cottage , which was quickly rented out to provide a valuable £35 a year of extra income . |
| 5 | On Oct. 16 a federal district court in New York sentenced E. Robert Wallach , a San Francisco lawyer , to six years in prison and fined him $250,000 , following his conviction on Aug. 8 of racketeering and fraud , having used his friendship with then Attorney General Edwin Meese III on behalf of Wedtech in return for a payment of $500,000 . |
| 6 | The allowance will be based on a payment of £100 for each £1000 of agreed house price difference . |
| 7 | The terms were a payment of £325 and a ground rent of £1 a year . |
| 8 | Under an alleged agreement with the committee , Mr Thomas Ward , who was a member of the committee , received a payment of £5.2million for advice and services in connection with the bid . |
| 9 | It provides a payment of $10 a day up to a maximum of 30 days . |
| 10 | Given below is a simple worked example of a UK importer sending a payment of $10 000 to the supplier of goods in the USA . |
| 11 | If a family of , say , five could in years of normal food prices be almost supported on 4s 6d a week , then a payment of 6d or 1s , either to a single pauper or as a supplement to the earnings of a large family , was indeed significant , especially if it was combined with occasional relief payments for tools , clothing , towards rent or for medicine . |
| 12 | Miss Shand added that there had already been a payment of £50,000 by the board , which was not opposing the move for a second payment of the same amount . |
| 13 | Farmer Input : a payment of £6-£7 per farm plus £1.25-£1.50 per arable acre per year for general administration ; a list of all machinery ( make and year of manufacture ) that he is willing to ‘ hire out ’ to the machinery group . |
| 14 | I note the agreement for a payment of £200 for the use of the animated dinosaurs for the purposes of filming . |
| 15 | In the end , both parties agreed on a payment of £200 , and Crawford 's contract came to an end . |
| 16 | If we fail to do this you will be entitled to a payment of £5.00 . |
| 17 | This must be accompanied by a payment of £10.00 per booking ) to cover our administration cost . |
| 18 | Under this settlement , subject to approval by the courts in the UK , Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands and by 70 per cent of the creditors involved , those shareholders — the Ruler and authorities of Abu Dhabi — would ( i ) make a payment of $1,700 million ( adjustable up or down by $500 million ) to make possible a return to creditors of between 30 and 40 per cent ; and ( ii ) assume responsibility for certain liabilities of BCCI branches in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 19 | Reluctantly , however , he authorised Baldwin to make a settlement which did not exceed a payment of £25 million a year . |
| 20 | A payment of £12 9 8d was eventually received from the insurance company . |
| 21 | Employees also receive a payment of £150 for each dependent child under 18 ( although children aged 16–18 must be in full-time education for employees to qualify for this payment ) . |
| 22 | The plaintiff completed eight further flats and received a payment of £1,500 . |
| 23 | ( iv ) Teachers should discuss a variety of works so as to bring out the range and effects of different types of sound patterning , eg alliteration , assonance , rhymes , onomatopoeia , and of figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personifications . |
| 24 | The idea of an ‘ internal world ’ is not however new in ethology ; it was indeed a prime preoccupation of one of its key founding fathers , Jacob von Uexküll , who through studies of the perceptual apparatus of a variety of species deduced the nature of the experiential worlds to which they gave rise . |
| 25 | In certain areas , particularly on islands and in places where there are species which are not at all adapted to cope with cats as predators ( and that includes the whole of Australia ) , there have been dramatic adverse effects on populations of a variety of species of small animals because cats are allowed to roam around . |
| 26 | This device is found in a variety of species including the grass snake ( right ) and the hognose snake ( below ) . |
| 27 | I have never had fewer than three and often four dogs , since there is a use for a variety of species within the wide aspect of shooting and the countryside . |
| 28 | The island has the greatest concentration of seabirds in the north-west and at nesting time they are numbered in tens of thousands in a variety of species — guillemot , razorbill , kittiwake , fulmar , puffin , herring gull and shag — creating a deafening cacophony of noise . |
| 29 | That there should be such a variety of species of one kind of creature astounded him . |
| 30 | Parts of the course have much in common with medical science ; thus veterinary graduates specialising in anatomy , biochemistry or physiology can contribute to a general understanding of the structure and function of the living body ; veterinary pathology can help to increase our knowledge of cancer , heart disease and other syndromes common to a variety of species . |