Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when Fernandez was hired from Miami for $195,000 a year and a basket of pension plans that would excite a baseball player . |
| 2 | The fines imposed upon the Earl of Lancaster and his followers were remitted , and Lancaster received confirmation of his right to Pontefract , Tutbury and Leicester , which he had not been able to recover after the revolution of 1327 , though he had to lease Pontefract from the queen for £1,000 a year . |
| 3 | The Ledingham-Smiths did not pay the £5,000 a week as required , but did continue the banker 's order for £1,000 a month . |
| 4 | Various reports a plea for support a plea for interest particularly for the seventy fifth anniversary year next year and after that we had the most lovely party . |
| 5 | European and Asian gourmands will pay up to $100 per pound for the morel , matsutake and chanterelle mushrooms that grow in the forests , creating an industry that , by some estimates , is worth $10m a year . |
| 6 | Actually , Ron does n't know it , but he 's got a point — you really ought to think about money a bit . |
| 7 | During March a number of mass graves were found near former concentration camps or prisoner-of-war camps . |
| 8 | Although the sale of tiger products is banned in Taiwan , a large and not-very-covert market continues there , where an IUCN researcher recently found tiger bone on sale for $180 a pound . |
| 9 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 10 | I even got a job cleaning for £26 a fortnight and he spent that too , that used to make me feel dead small . |
| 11 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 12 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 13 | Section 2(3) states : " Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . " |
| 14 | This was the regular practice in the North , especially in south Lancashire and on the barren North York Moors around Whitby where , typically , at Hutton Bonville only squire George Conyers was taxed — on lands worth £40 a year . |
| 15 | Less frequent travellers can have a transatlantic pager for £48 a week or £144 a month . |
| 16 | At Surrey the ‘ amateur ’ W. W. Read was employed as ‘ assistant secretary ’ to the club for £250 a year — a post he relinquished when he ceased to play . |
| 17 | For £250 a year , EDI users can subscribe to SITPRO 's EDIFACT Service , which provides a comprehensive guide to implementing the UN/EDIFACT standard , with regular updates as new message types are developed . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , a group of Catholic senators was trying to push through parliament a bill banning abortion and granting ‘ full human rights ’ to the foetus in time for the pope 's visit . |
| 19 | Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender . |
| 20 | To catch up with its rivals , UK industry must , the CBI believes , achieve productivity increases of at least 5% a year through the rest of the decade , double investment in plant and machinery per employee , and capture an extra 1% of world trade , worth £10bn a year . |
| 21 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 22 | If one has to identify a stimulus — for instance a word - then one can accomplish this more quickly if presentation of the word is immediately preceded by an associated word or picture . |
| 23 | If there are more or modified synapses , the chemicals and structures of which the synapses are composed must show signs of change , which might be measurable either by biochemical methods ( for instance , an increase in the amount of synaptic membrane protein ) or under a microscope ( for instance a change in the dimensions of particular synapses , or an increase in synaptic numbers ) . |
| 24 | For instance a man who is over fifty and who smokes over twenty cigarettes a day is four times more likely to suffer from heart disease than a non-smoker of the same age . |
| 25 | A disposition is a very wide term and for instance a transfer out of assets by trustees to a tenant for life although it would not be a transfer of value would nevertheless be a disposition . |
| 26 | The cost equation complicates further because coaxial cable needs only simple connections at each end , for instance a plug to fit a TV set . |
| 27 | For instance a pancake race in Stockton was just what the doctor ordered . |
| 28 | Choose a cake with particular relevance to the child in mind , for instance a pet-owner or animal lover would be thrilled to receive an iced rabbit in a hutch , the frog sitting on its own water lily pond or the ponies in their stable . |
| 29 | The focus on the addresser , for instance a speaker or an author , constitutes the emotive function , that of expressing the addresser 's attitudes or feelings ; the focus on the addressee or receiver , the conative function , that of influencing the feelings or attitudes of the addressee ; the focus on the context , the real , external situation in which the message occurs , the referential function ; the focus on the code , as when a message elucidates a point of grammar , the metalingual function ; the focus on the means of contact , as in the case , say , of expressions inserted by one party into a telephone conversation simply in order to reassure the other party that they are both still on the line , the phatic function ; the focus on the message itself , the poetic function . |
| 30 | Where the material to be used in enquiry work is audio-visual ( as for instance a filmstrip , perhaps with the accompanying booklet transcribed on to audio-cassette so that the eye can concentrate on the pictures and the slower readers have quick access to the text ) then of course suitable equipment must be available in sufficient quantity for the expected numbers of students at any one time . |