Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not simply a payment of part of the debt . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 1.54 An interim payment is , in effect , a payment in advance of the plaintiff 's own money to which he is entitled . |
| 4 | On June 10 Zenawi criticized the previous regime for accepting a payment in connection with the migration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel [ see pp. 38174-75 , which , he said , " should have been handled as a humanitarian problem " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As the guests dined , they were treated to a variety of music from the ship 's orchestra , including Strauss 's Stories of the Vienna Forest , The Swing of the Kilt , Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Grieg 's Peer Gynt suite . |
| 7 | Over the last few years , thousands of people have received a variety of training through the Business Venture , which is made up of senior local businessmen and two council officials one Conservative and one Labour . |
| 8 | This will cover a variety of material from the aftermath of the disastrous Beeching line closures of the early Sixties , when Col. Savill was able to record on colour film many of the much-loved structures of the railway scene that are now lost . |
| 9 | Information derived from these is used in a variety of ways , but most frequently in contributing towards a base for decision-making in the areas of planning and marketing . |
| 10 | Sir George Calvert , a politician at the Stuart court , had already shown his interest in colonization by trying to found a settlement in the Avalon district of Newfoundland , though this had failed partly because of the climate and partly because of the opposition of the fishermen who came from England every summer to use it as a base for fishing on the Grand Banks . |
| 11 | The Octobrist party , whose leaders attempted to provide him with a base of support within the Duma , found themselves coming under increasing criticism , and the party fell apart . |
| 12 | Such payments will not be regarded as a provision of income by the beneficiary provided the trust deed permits such payments and interest is paid on the amount effectively loaned to the capital account . |
| 13 | ( d ) Independent determinationThree questions arise in drafting a provision for determination of the new rent by an independent person . |
| 14 | A provision for interest in the budgetary estimates indicated the government 's likely intention to block a 1991 court order outlawing interest , which was forbidden under Islamic law [ see also pp. 38683-84 ] . |
| 15 | On the other hand , it is argued ( E. R. Dew , 56 Lqw Society 's Gazette 365 ) that the most likely ‘ other reason ’ for which an agreement might be void or unenforceable , apart from containing a provision against application to the court , would be precisely the want of consideration if the agreement be not under seal ; the legislature , it is urged on this view , would not have made inroads on the fundamental requirement of valuable consideration in a contract not under seal , by a provision purporting to deal with the maintenance rights of a wife . |
| 16 | ‘ Rather than have this turn into a trial of strength between the Government and some sections of the press about my future , I have decided to resolve it myself by resigning . |
| 17 | Accordingly , on many occasions the choice of a collector became in itself a trial of strength between the political interests in a county , not only because of the intrinsic attractions of the office itself , but because the collector would be involved in the production of the certificates of valuation required as part of the documentation to be produced for claimants seeking admission to the freeholders roll . |
| 18 | The case is well known in England as well as Wales , and is seen as a trial of strength between the conservation and quarrying lobbies . |
| 19 | The dispute was being regarded as a trial of strength by the labour movement ( in a nationwide context of increased union militancy ) and the solidarity of all the trades in the printing industry impressed the employers still standing out against the men 's memorial . |
| 20 | A dramatic experience of a submarine under attack in the North Atlantic and the terrible effects of being torpedoed in the freezing ocean — adrift on a raft ! |
| 21 | A dramatic experience of a submarine under attack in the North Atlantic , coupled to the terrible effects of being set adrift in a raft in mid-Atlantic . |
| 22 | Mr Delmo Vigna , who was lying in bed in his first-floor flat when the bomb went off , said : ‘ Just 20 minutes earlier , I had stuck my head out of the window to throw a bucket of water on the street to clean it . |
| 23 | My father , six kids on a Friday night , we used to put a bucket of water on the hot sink , on the old gas stove and my father used to bath us six kids in front of the fire . |
| 24 | I had to throw throw a bucket of water at the door to show them . |
| 25 | The small party — Peter Young by now had about half the men he had brought from Maaloy — opened fire on the warehouse , the Colonel having already emptied his revolver in firing at a sniper 's window , and they kept the German from the window long enough for George Herbert to splash a bucket of petrol over the wooden walls . |
| 26 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 27 | Then they held him down , flat on his back , as another Sturmabteilung poured a bucket of salt over the Englishman . |
| 28 | The dragon-lady 's in a sober tizzy , eh ? , because they tried to give a bucket of beer to the horse . |
| 29 | Tom Rigg , the warden at Loch Ossian youth hostel , can conjure three stags out of Rannoch Moor by banging a bucket of food at the door . |
| 30 | Put a bucket of food on the ramp at a distance from the horse sufficient to make him put one foot on the ramp . |