Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not simply a payment of part of the debt . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I note the agreement for a payment of £200 for the use of the animated dinosaurs for the purposes of filming . |
| 4 | In making a payment of interest to the lender and a contribution to a life assurance company , the debt remains constant and the borrower is offered the prospect of a maturing policy that will not only repay the mortgage but also provide a lump sum . |
| 5 | If trustees make a payment of monies to a beneficiary this may comprise income in the hands of the beneficiary thus giving rise to a tax charge . |
| 6 | Expectations will be identified explicitly , making it easier to simulate alternative policies under a variety of assumptions about the way expectations are formed , and the way investigations are formed , and the investigation of the robustness of different policies . |
| 7 | • interesting discussions on a variety of topics with a visiting ‘ expert ’ ( eg Reflexology , Speech Therapy , Colour Analysis , Chiropractic , Music for Children , Assertiveness , Wills ) |
| 8 | The comprehensive course covered a variety of topics including a cut-down EPOS system — as used by the Company 's retail division . |
| 9 | ‘ A number of district officers have been asked to look at a variety of projects across the service , ’ he said . |
| 10 | In 1989 some half of the £8.8 million thus raised went on training future clergy , the rest on a variety of projects including the running of General Synod itself . |
| 11 | The process of socialization involves forming ideas of family life in children by a variety of devices including the stories that children read . |
| 12 | Coupons , contained within the pack , may be collected over time and exchanged for a variety of products in a catalogue . |
| 13 | The board of management , led by Newcastle man Dermott Killip , organised a variety of programmes in a bid to stimulate interest in the arts . |
| 14 | The course was well received and will be offered a variety of venues in the coming year . |
| 15 | It draws on authentic texts from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences such as economics , sociology , and political history . |
| 16 | A verb or adverb , however , is unlikely to be as strongly constrained to one domain and will therefore be more general in its use ( e.g. ’ withdraw ’ , ’ open ’ and ’ save ’ all have a variety of meanings besides the financial sense ) . |
| 17 | There are a variety of paths around the reserve as well as local bridleways and footpaths you can link up with to make a longer walk . |
| 18 | If these moderators are present ( we discuss what these are in a moment ) then work will be experienced as meaningful if it requires a variety of skills from the worker , if a complete piece of work is done ( task identity ) , and if the worker sees the task to be of significance . |
| 19 | Spare capacity would be resold to other British Telecom units , which could offer a variety of services over the network . |
| 20 | The WRVS was founded during the Second World War and has around 150,000 volunteers ( 13% of whom are men ) providing a variety of services in the community . |
| 21 | Highly readable chapters on a variety of sportsmen by an American-born who strung three outstanding cricket books together a decade ago . |
| 22 | It is recognised however that PC(a) requires pupils to identify a variety of viewpoints on the issue , and therefore they may have to include differing views . |
| 23 | In the simplest terms , the daily timing system consists of a body clock that is synchronized by external time-cues and that sends information to a variety of systems in the body and so produces daily rhythms in them . |
| 24 | The foregoing explains a powerful method of analysis and assessment that the NRC requires to be carried out on a variety of systems within the PWR plant , such as the emergency feedwater system , ECCS injection and recirculation , containment cooling , actuation of safety features , the auxiliary systems on which these depend , for example the AC and DC supplies and essential service water and cooling systems , and they must allow for possible interactions between different parts of the overall system . |
| 25 | Since retiring as a GP he has continued to perform a variety of tasks for the Order . |
| 26 | This programme ( see Chapter 3 ) involved the spending of over £400 million by a variety of agencies on the regeneration of east Glasgow , through the creation of new business centres , industrial development schemes , environmental improvements and substantial housing renewal and rehabilitation ( Leclerc and Draffan , 1984 ) . |
| 27 | A college which has close relations with a variety of companies with a good record in training can point young people in the direction of these ‘ good ’ employers . |
| 28 | These data suggest that post transplant HBV infection is accompanied by a variety of changes in the liver allograft , some of which are unique to the transplanted liver and may result in impaired allograft function . |
| 29 | The SAC issued a critical review , recommending a variety of changes in the way the RSNO — then known as the Royal Scottish Orchestra — was run . |
| 30 | We think it desirable that the same type of teacher should be employed in these courses ( One-Year , Terminal and less formal ) as in University Tutorial Classes and that arrangements should be made whereby staff-tutors appointed for extra-mural work by the Universities should be encouraged to devote part of their time to less formal work , not only in the interests of the work , but also in order to provide a variety of occupation for the tutor and to ensure that he keeps in touch with all phases of the adult education movement . |