Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needs to be sharp , of course , since you will use that to clear away surface vegetation and for cutting a route into a hedgerow to obtain easy access to the mouth of a burrow . |
| 2 | One of the best starts for later work in public relations , and one which can sometimes prove a route into a job , is working for a charity , organization or event which needs publicity . |
| 3 | Home energy efficiency is increasingly seen as a route to a reduction in national greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 4 | He 's drawn up a route for a walk to the South Pole … of Mars , that is . |
| 5 | Anyway , like I was saying , any jumped-up little nerd can come along , work on a route for a month and get it wired , then go down in the book as one of the greats . |
| 6 | In essence the result of this change was to ensure that when a contractor made a payment to a sub-contractor holding a tax certificate issued by the Inland Revenue , the sub-contractor could be paid in full . |
| 7 | A builder making a payment to a sub-contractor who does not have a certificate must make a deduction from the payment for tax . |
| 8 | In order to ensure consistency of treatment for all employees the Director of Social Work , in conjunction with the Director of Finance , will make a payment to a teacher in circumstances where an injury allowance would be payable to an employee covered by the terms of the Local Government Superannuation Regulations . |
| 9 | If the trustees make a payment to a beneficiary as an income distribution and the trustees submit trust returns supported by the relevant income tax certificates which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries and the trustees pay the additional rate tax chargeable on the UK income of the trust credit can be obtained for income tax suffered by the trustees . |
| 10 | The Clinton administration has endorsed a practice known as " mitigation banking " , under which property owners are allowed to develop protected wetlands in exchange for a payment into a fund to restore other wetland areas . |
| 11 | HOWARD Wilkinson has revealed how he transformed Eric Cantona from a frog into a prince with a piece of plain Yorkshire talk . |
| 12 | Stravinsky 's ballet The Firebird re-tells the most famous tale of this creature , who carried a prince to a land that had long lain asleep , there to rescue a princess and help her dispose of the witch who had enchanted her countrymen . |
| 13 | ‘ I hope you 're not going to turn from a prince into a frog , ’ she said with a shaky laugh . |
| 14 | However , the door has an irksome magical effect : a variety of a Rune of Renewal is etched into the wood . |
| 15 | Villagers believe that a proposed gypsy camp could serve as a base for a terrorist attack on a military college in Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | The neighbourhood ( for which physical limits may be assigned ) acted as a base for a group but , often , these groups could be more accurately defined by housing and class interests than purely by locality . |
| 17 | Could you buy in quite a bit of fresh fish , say ten portions if you plan to have ten fish meals in a month , so that there is always good healthy protein food available as a base for a meal ? |
| 18 | Occasionally pasta or rice is used as a base for a meal rather than potatoes . |
| 19 | ‘ The recommendation by arbitrators is not a reflection of the true economic situation and thus can not be a base for a solution to the conflict , ’ said Rudolf Seiters , Interior Minister . |
| 20 | A State is bound by a provision of a treaty to which it is not a party if : ( a ) the parties … intended that the provision in question should be the means of creating a legal obligation binding upon that particular State or class of States to which it belongs ; and ( b ) that State has expressly or impliedly consented to the provision . |
| 21 | A State exercising a right by a provision of a treaty to which it is not a party is bound to comply with any conditions laid down in that provision , or elsewhere in the treaty for the exercise of the right . |
| 22 | Could a relevant statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Budget Speech be admissible for establishing parliamentary intention in the construction of a provision of a finance Act in the absence of a clear ministerial statement during the passage of the Bill ? |
| 23 | Water quality manager at Essex Water John Devall yesterday said the main part of the plant was for pesticide removal although the company was making a provision for a nitrate removal plant . |
| 24 | Common Law would treat a provision in a contract as to time as being ‘ of the essence of the contract ’ , meaning that if a certain act was not done by one party within a certain stipulated time , he should lose all rights under the contract ; Equity treated such a provision in general as not being of the essence of the contract , but as giving a right only to damages . |
| 25 | So , for instance , a variation in ministerial statements on the legislative intention behind a provision in a Government Bill might be sufficient to characterize the statements as unclear , but a similar variation in the statements in the Commons and the Lords by the promoters of a private Members Bill might not be treated as having the same significance . |
| 26 | His lordship held that , while a provision in a company 's articles that restricted its statutory power to alter those articles was invalid , an agreement outside the articles between shareholders about how they should exercise their voting rights on a resolution to alter the articles was not necessarily invalid . |
| 27 | Where the difficulty is one of applying the provision rather than a conceptual uncertainty the court will not hold it to be void ( Brown v Gould ) ; and a provision in a lease will not be uncertain if it can be made certain . |
| 28 | So it has been held that a provision in a statute that regulations made under the statute will take effect as if enacted in the statute ( that is , they will be unchallengeable as if they were made by Parliament ) does not prevent the courts holding the regulation to be ultra vires . |
| 29 | It now offers charting by way of Microsoft Graph and you can include a chart on a slide as you would any other graphics object . |
| 30 | And out he goes and gets this woman and in she comes with a chart with a woman 's name the job number , that done it week by week or fortnight , whatever it does . |