Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is quite simple : it is not a route to do on a single rope . |
| 2 | Employees may , for example , receive flat-rate payments , allowances based on a percentage of their salary , or a payment based on a number of weeks ' salary . |
| 3 | Unless the workers employed in a producers ' co-operative are the final custodians of its affairs , the bonus — or better , the bounty — remains a payment made as an act of grace ; and the co-operative is not properly so-called . |
| 4 | In response to a letter from the Law Society , the Revenue states that it is not possible to set hard and fast rules to determine whether a payment made to an employee who intends to seek further employment will be treated as made in connection with retirement . |
| 5 | Walton J. did not purport to decide the case on the basis of a payment made under a mistake of law and I agree with the doubts expressed by Romer J. in Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , 241 , as to this being a true case of money paid under a mistake of law having regard to the plaintiffs ' expressions as to their understanding of the law at the time of the payments . |
| 6 | A payment made by a third party to a company 's employee , but taxable under Sch E as arising from his employment , was subject to deduction of income tax at source under the PAYE Regulations , according to the High Court in Booth v Mirror Group Newspapers plc [ 1992 ] STI 662 . |
| 7 | They drove down to Causeway Bay where his junk was waiting , and were taken out to it in a sampan owned by an ancient Chinese in a lampshade hat . |
| 8 | So observed income in period is a reflection of a base earning from an individual 's raw uneducated ability or talent and past investments times their rates of return minus any current investment ( which usually is in the form of forgone earnings ) . |
| 9 | At the bottom of the forge was a water trough whilst some two feet in front of this stood the anvil , on a base cut from an elm trunk some three feet in diameter and two in height . |
| 10 | A base acts as an installation supporting the operations of a military force and serves as its point of origin . |
| 11 | An option is , typically , a contract , a deed or a provision made by a testator in his will by which one party grants to the other the right to buy property , from him or his estate , at a future date . |
| 12 | They were only a matter of metres away but , due to the insulation which separated every portion of dock superstructure — a provision designed as a safeguard against just the kind of occurrence which had threatened Rostov — both had been safe from danger . |
| 13 | This track offers a splendid high-level walk free of traffic ; it finally descends to Dent by way of Flinter Gill after passing below a hilltop crowned by a group of old cairns known as Megger Stones . |
| 14 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 15 | Judging a shoe merely on technical specifications or on a trial fitting in a retail shop is never totally satisfactory . |
| 16 | The pilot study is a trial run on a small number of ‘ guinea pigs ’ who should be as like the true respondents as possible in age , intelligence , social class , etc . |
| 17 | It is also , however , a trial run for a more extensive catalogue which is being considered . |
| 18 | I had also learnt not to waste energy making excuses , and to recognize the signs and symptoms of a sister suffering from an attack of acute haema-dementia . |
| 19 | Additionally , the horses were usually fed their dinner of oats in a bucket placed inside a motorcar tire ( so that they were less likely to spill it ) . |
| 20 | Homer is refreshingly critical about his chosen subject and questioning about the motivation behind such works as the truly horrible ‘ The Agnew Clinic ’ of 1889 which depicts a mastectomy performed in an operating theatre crowded with doctors . |
| 21 | Burston 's village sign — taking the form of a maypole surmounted by a wheatsheaf — a symbol of the village 's association with the land and milling . |
| 22 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 23 | The dive from a cradle secured from a crane earned Liz £650 in sponsorship money which went towards her local sea cadet organisation . |
| 24 | It was quite different , however , when through parental death or disaster a grandchild went for a time to be brought up by grandparents . |
| 25 | But lasting influence depended not only on some form of regular , close contact , but equally crucially on a sense of affinity , of common inheritance and character , which allowed a grandchild to see in a grandparent a model for his or her own development . |
| 26 | One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ . |
| 27 | There was a cabinet on the pavement beside the traction pole , in front of Holy Trinity Church , with a cable emerging from a hole in the top , which passed over a pulley near the top of the post and worked the overhead point , in conjunction with the rail point . |
| 28 | He has not even learned that Britain is suffering from a recession bordering on a slump . |
| 29 | You will be asked whether you want an S or a P trap , which often causes amusement : an S trap fits to a soil pipe in the floor , and a P trap to a soil pipe which goes out through the wall . |
| 30 | At 12.15 I was due at a function to pose for a photocall to launch a twenty-four-hour helpline for a worthy and deserving charity . |