Example sentences of "a [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | • interesting discussions on a variety of topics with a visiting ‘ expert ’ ( eg Reflexology , Speech Therapy , Colour Analysis , Chiropractic , Music for Children , Assertiveness , Wills ) |
| 6 | The comprehensive course covered a variety of topics including a cut-down EPOS system — as used by the Company 's retail division . |
| 7 | This nationwide annual survey collects attitudinal information on a variety of topics including health and welfare , education , housing , morality , economic expectations and political beliefs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | They are generally based in youth clubs and centres , and work on a variety of projects including those for the unemployed . |
| 12 | The announcement by the Government funded Housing Corporation will help a variety of projects throughout Durham and Cleveland . |
| 13 | The process of socialization involves forming ideas of family life in children by a variety of devices including the stories that children read . |
| 14 | So unpleasant is the experience that nations adopt a variety of devices for coping with it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Formalists maintained that there are a variety of devices in poetry which have the effect of ‘ roughening ’ or ‘ impeding ’ pronunciation . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | Mark fished below the chalk hole and trotted a variety of baits including maggot , caster and redworm . |
| 20 | Her nine-month old business , Stephanie Ann Glassware , produces a variety of products including perfume bottles , brooches , tie pins and candlesticks . |
| 21 | Coupons , contained within the pack , may be collected over time and exchanged for a variety of products in a catalogue . |
| 22 | The large , multinational chemical company that is the subject of Case 1 had facilities in over eighty countries and produced a variety of products from pharmaceuticals to heavy chemicals . |
| 23 | The book describes ways of going about setting up a variety of programmes with different purposes . |
| 24 | The board of management , led by Newcastle man Dermott Killip , organised a variety of programmes in a bid to stimulate interest in the arts . |
| 25 | Entitled PZ092 part III , this collaboration between Phantasmagoria , Lighthouse and Brighton Polytechnic will provide video installations at a variety of venues in Brighton like Video Box , Ritz , Comet , Vision Hire and Blockbuster . |
| 26 | The course was well received and will be offered a variety of venues in the coming year . |
| 27 | Since these theories draw on a variety of disciplines including psychology , sociology , linguistics , etc. , the language component of initial training courses seems the ideal arena in which to bring together these perspectives . |
| 28 | It draws on authentic texts from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences such as economics , sociology , and political history . |
| 29 | The Royal Concert Hall will play host to a variety of performers including Victoria de los Angeles and Joan Baez , while the most inventive piece of programming will see the Glinka State Choir of St Petersburg perform in St Aloysius Church . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |