Example sentences of "a [noun] of [noun] [prep] the " 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 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 .
6 ‘ A number of district officers have been asked to look at a variety of projects across the service , ’ he said .
7 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 .
8 The process of socialization involves forming ideas of family life in children by a variety of devices including the stories that children read .
9 The course was well received and will be offered a variety of venues in the coming year .
10 It draws on authentic texts from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences such as economics , sociology , and political history .
11 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 ) .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Spare capacity would be resold to other British Telecom units , which could offer a variety of services over the network .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Since retiring as a GP he has continued to perform a variety of tasks for the Order .
20 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 ) .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 What this difference means is not clear ; it could be a manifestation of a variety of factors including the very different financial circumstances of the two groups !
25 For daughters who take on the role the identification of the caring responsibility is probably much more complex and is related to a variety of factors including the services which are available , the needs of the older person , the type of relationship and feelings of filial responsibility .
26 A variety of factors in the stimuli presented have been found to influence selection .
27 The gynaecological department at Middlesbrough is now the leading unit in Britain , treating a variety of women with the latest technology and minimum surgery .
28 Newbigin cites the evidence of not one but a variety of Christologies in the New Testament reflecting ‘ the attempts of that community to say who Jesus is in terms of the different cultures within which they bore witness to him . ’
29 There would be a variety of variations in the order that the circumstances of a particular transaction might require .
30 Alternative careers — a number of LEAs have mounted events involving school pupils in non–traditional activities providing girls ( and boys ) with the opportunity of ‘ having a go ’ at a variety of activities across the whole employment range .
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