Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This beeline may be reversed and used as a route of ascent from Horton but until a clear path has been formed by foot-traffic over the rough higher ground , it is not a way to be preferred to other more pleasant routes of ascent : apart from an exciting interlude midway , the climb becomes tedious . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was not simply a payment of part of the debt . |
| 4 | The allowance will be based on a payment of £100 for each £1000 of agreed house price difference . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I note the agreement for a payment of £200 for the use of the animated dinosaurs for the purposes of filming . |
| 9 | This must be accompanied by a payment of £10.00 per booking ) to cover our administration cost . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | It is symbolic that a Babylonian text records a payment of oil to Jehoiakin , the son of the king of Judah , and to seven Greek carpenters who worked for the Babylonian court ( Ancient Near Eastern Texts , 2 ed. , p. 308 ) . |
| 14 | However , it has been shown that , under a variety of assumptions about information conditions , collusive outcomes are supportable as Nash perfect equilibria in repeated games ( see Tirole , 1989 , ch. 6 for a convenient summary ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | More particularly , pupils should compile a folder of coursework containing writing of a range of types on a variety of topics for different and clearly specified audiences . |
| 17 | • interesting discussions on a variety of topics with a visiting ‘ expert ’ ( eg Reflexology , Speech Therapy , Colour Analysis , Chiropractic , Music for Children , Assertiveness , Wills ) |
| 18 | The comprehensive course covered a variety of topics including a cut-down EPOS system — as used by the Company 's retail division . |
| 19 | This nationwide annual survey collects attitudinal information on a variety of topics including health and welfare , education , housing , morality , economic expectations and political beliefs . |
| 20 | Later , he turned to a variety of topics within logic and philosophy : modal and many-valued logic ; the logic of entailment and of questions ; the paradoxes ; the Polish school of reism ; action theory ; ontology ; and intentionality . |
| 21 | ‘ A number of district officers have been asked to look at a variety of projects across the service , ’ he said . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They are generally based in youth clubs and centres , and work on a variety of projects including those for the unemployed . |
| 24 | The announcement by the Government funded Housing Corporation will help a variety of projects throughout Durham and Cleveland . |
| 25 | The process of socialization involves forming ideas of family life in children by a variety of devices including the stories that children read . |
| 26 | So unpleasant is the experience that nations adopt a variety of devices for coping with it . |
| 27 | The length and complexity of the sentences in the above extracts , and hence the potential difficulty of tracing participants , makes it necessary to use a variety of devices for establishing cohesive links in both texts . |
| 28 | He accumulated information on a variety of devices from different sources , including claimed contact with people from beyond this planet , and was able to elucidate certain basic principles , including the use of ‘ free energy ’ , no moving parts and the importance of shape , number and materials to proper functioning . |
| 29 | The Formalists maintained that there are a variety of devices in poetry which have the effect of ‘ roughening ’ or ‘ impeding ’ pronunciation . |
| 30 | Lord Bridge then outlined a series of cases , in particular the Court of Appeal decision in Crancour v da Silvaesa ( 1986 ) 18 HLR 265 , in which landlords used a variety of devices in their " licence " agreements to avoid the rigours of Street v Mountford , for example ensuring that the " Licensee " was only allowed to occupy the premises for 22 out of 24 hours a day , or the provision of " attendance " by the " Licensor " , such as window cleaning , laundering of bed-linen , or boxes of cornflakes left at the licensee 's door with a bottle of milk as " breakfast " . |