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

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1 It needs to be sharp , of course , since you will use that to clear away surface vegetation and for cutting a route into a hedgerow to obtain easy access to the mouth of a burrow .
2 One of the best starts for later work in public relations , and one which can sometimes prove a route into a job , is working for a charity , organization or event which needs publicity .
3 Education can be a route to a narrow range of professions , but for most the prospects are poor .
4 Hofmann realized that he had discovered a new and versatile chemical reaction which could provide a route to a wide range of new compounds .
5 Home energy efficiency is increasingly seen as a route to a reduction in national greenhouse gas emissions .
6 But Vézelay and Saint-Gilles lay on a route to an even more notable city than Compostela , to Rome itself .
7 These packs are being used by both industry , colleges and individuals to provide the underpinning learning support for S/NVQs , or as a route to an HCIMA qualification .
8 Anyway , like I was saying , any jumped-up little nerd can come along , work on a route for a month and get it wired , then go down in the book as one of the greats .
9 Most of the ingredients were taken from other fields and disciplines , but the achievement was to meld these into a way of thinking , both theoretically and methodologically , so that one , the latter , could provide a route for a more effective formulation of the other , namely , theory .
10 He 's drawn up a route for a walk to the South Pole … of Mars , that is .
11 In essence the result of this change was to ensure that when a contractor made a payment to a sub-contractor holding a tax certificate issued by the Inland Revenue , the sub-contractor could be paid in full .
12 A builder making a payment to a sub-contractor who does not have a certificate must make a deduction from the payment for tax .
13 In order to ensure consistency of treatment for all employees the Director of Social Work , in conjunction with the Director of Finance , will make a payment to a teacher in circumstances where an injury allowance would be payable to an employee covered by the terms of the Local Government Superannuation Regulations .
14 Clearly , a sum paid to the settlor to discharge a liability of his to the bank would come within this section ( see IRC v Bates ( 1966 ) 44 TC 225 : the case of Potts ' Executors v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 43 held that a payment to a third party was not a sum paid to the settlor but that case is no longer good law in view of TA 1988 , s677(10) which was inserted into the former TA 1970 , s451 ( now TA 1988 , s677 ) by s42(7) of FA 1981 ) .
15 If the trustees make a payment to a beneficiary as an income distribution and the trustees submit trust returns supported by the relevant income tax certificates which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries and the trustees pay the additional rate tax chargeable on the UK income of the trust credit can be obtained for income tax suffered by the trustees .
16 Under Reg 20 , an employer was to deduct tax at source at the basic rate where he had made a payment to an employee in respect of whom he had not received a code of authorisation , subject to certain conditions .
17 It is a specific and unconditional agreement to make a payment of a fixed amount on an agreed date .
18 er , yes my Lord , there 's the prior point that we er , we would submit as indicated in the skeleton of the eleventh of November that on its true construction , erm the central fund byelaw , article ten in particular er gives rise to a payment of a specified sum , ascertain sum , payable forthwith on demand , it 's rather like the example your Lordship gave of the Barclaycard or the cheque , if my learned friend is right
19 The Clinton administration has endorsed a practice known as " mitigation banking " , under which property owners are allowed to develop protected wetlands in exchange for a payment into a fund to restore other wetland areas .
20 Again in Johnston v Chamberlain ( 1933 ) 17 TC 706 , the taxpayer sought to argue that a payment from a discretionary trust could not give rise to income tax liability on the beneficiary as it was " only when the trustees choose to exercise their discretion by making the payment that the sum gets to the children at all " .
21 However , the natives , who had known yasak , or alman , before the Russians arrived on the scene , and regarded it as a payment by a vanquished people to its conqueror , in the time-honoured manner would pay only as long as it suited them .
22 HOWARD Wilkinson has revealed how he transformed Eric Cantona from a frog into a prince with a piece of plain Yorkshire talk .
23 ‘ You know that I am a prince of a very high order , and you know I obey the Ancient Code of Honour .
24 Stravinsky 's ballet The Firebird re-tells the most famous tale of this creature , who carried a prince to a land that had long lain asleep , there to rescue a princess and help her dispose of the witch who had enchanted her countrymen .
25 ‘ I hope you 're not going to turn from a prince into a frog , ’ she said with a shaky laugh .
26 He looked like a prince from an uncensored story , a Beardsley illustration of male perfection .
27 Try to avoid angular prints on a pelmet with a highly curved edge , as the designs could conflict .
28 However , the door has an irksome magical effect : a variety of a Rune of Renewal is etched into the wood .
29 It might result in a variety of a certain species , but it could never result in a completely new species .
30 As I say , we 're now , we shall now be working on the er , on a financial strategy , so that we 've got more detailed costings er , available to us , erm , but I think members will be interested to know that erm , within the next few months there will , we shall be taking part , er , as part of a wider national exercise , in an exercise undertaken by the District Audit Commission , on Children 's Services , so that we , I think we shall be in good stead , to have this as a base as a working document for that erm , Audit Commission exercise .
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