Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Routes like the Nameless/Autumn Flakes combination , a cuddly VS which can be protected , but a route on which climbers have lost their lives through belay failure . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that Saul 's Crack is not a route on which to learn the mystical art of jamming , but it is a good test of technique . |
| 3 | Alternatively , sail independently in any of our yachts on a route of your choice . |
| 4 | He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow . |
| 5 | For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel . |
| 6 | Many in France saw it as a route by which French prestige and French leadership within Europe could be restored . |
| 7 | Insider dealing provides a route by which they may do so . |
| 8 | Creggan was beginning to read the windscape around him and to plan a route by it . |
| 9 | Still , the activity all around him was reassuring , for every yard was another step nearer a payment to him . |
| 10 | Erm mm , no , you just play it , yo well , you he yes and no , I mean i er you , you , you were ge you were getting in pra i the equivalent of thirty pound a barrel discount erm , which is probably as much as you could er could get , er in , in in a free free house any , er except that you 've got , you know , fifteen , twenty thousand pounds up front as a payment to you . |
| 11 | A tax effective method of achieving this may be by means of a payment to your pension scheme . |
| 12 | The payment is said by the respondent not to have been ‘ voluntary ’ but ‘ forced ’ from it within the contemplation of the law … ‘ compulsion ’ in relation to a payment of which refund is sort , and whether it is also variously called ‘ coercion , ’ ‘ extortion , ’ ‘ exaction ’ or ‘ force , ’ includes every species of duress or conduct analogous to duress actual or threatened , exacted by or on behalf of the payee and applied to the person or the property or any right of the person who pays … . |
| 13 | In addition , where the landlord pays an inducement to the tenant in order to persuade the tenant to take up the lease , that is a payment on which the tenant must account for VAT ( Nevile Russell v Commissioners of Customs & Excise [ 1987 ] VATTR 194 ) . |
| 14 | No , well I mean , it were n't as though I had n't put a payment in it were just that it probably was this taking Tracey 's book and I marked it onto Tracey 's , er , Tracey 's book . |
| 15 | Although the matter does not arise in this appeal because Woolwich were fully aware of all the relevant circumstances , I can not help feeling that there is some illogicality in treating as voluntary a payment by someone who justifiably believes that the demand is lawful whereas in fact it turns out to be unlawful . |
| 16 | Hospitia were numerous enough in 866 , for instance , for a special rate to be assigned them when Charles " imposed a payment throughout his whole realm " to pay tribute to Vikings . |
| 17 | This is a 'photograph of me . |
| 18 | Such an equivalence suggests , perhaps wrongly , that most candidates in comprehensive schools will be expected to do no better than score an F or a G in their GCSE . |
| 19 | Convinced by his period of residence with the king at Holdenby as a parliamentary commissioner in 1647 that Charles ‘ was a prince under whose government we may yet be happy ’ , Holland returned to the Continent after the failure of further peace moves . |
| 20 | There were few things more calculated to endear a prince to his subjects than a display of stern retribution on unjust officials . |
| 21 | Dathan and Abiram for their part reject Moses ' leadership and reproach him with these words : ‘ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey , to kill us in the wilderness , that you must also make yourself a prince over us ? ’ |
| 22 | Their Moorish ancestry was still visible , not only in the land but in the tilt of the head , the hard , sensuous lips , the quick glitter of their eyes , and she had to admit that Felipe de Santis was a prince among them . |
| 23 | Demonstrating parental behaviour towards infants may be a ruse by which low-ranking males are able to gain mating opportunities . |
| 24 | After twenty-eight rounds Cribb was unable to come to scratch , but a ruse by his seconds gave him time to recover , and Molineaux retired in the thirty-third round . |
| 25 | She sees her tears as meeting a variety of her needs . |
| 26 | The latest add-on for the PC is a combined Modem/Fax/Answering Machine , a variety of which is the ‘ Teleputer ’ a review copy of which has been kindly provided by hardware specialists Solwise Technical Services of Hull . |
| 27 | Planting can be done in spring or autumn , and increase is by division , or by seed sown in spring , or early autumn ; the wild Madder , R. peregrina , may be a variety of it and also contains a pinkish dye . |
| 28 | Concrete can also be used as a base on which to lay paving slabs on five dabs of cement and sand , or you can bed crazy paving on it . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm after a Brian Clough-style dynasty , which we could use as a base on which to build everything else . ’ |
| 30 | The first product to come from the alliance is expected in the second quarter of 1994 , and is intended to form a base on which network operators can develop specific software applications . |