Example sentences of "[pron] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Have I a good tape of quiet music for the reflection time ?
2 Can I a little bit of orange ?
3 I a numerical value of :
4 IN his black and silver warrior 's robes , brandishing his flashing , menacing sword — and it is a real one — Glenn Lobo looks ready to do someone a great deal of mischief .
5 Perhaps we could allow ourselves a small sherry before dinner just for a change .
6 We each filled ourselves a small glass of vodka , and he said , ‘ George Dionisovich , I will try to help you for your kind heart and for your kind deeds ’ .
7 We are ourselves a major source of the moisture in the air inside our homes .
8 Here we need to ask ourselves a whole range of questions associated with the ways in which staff are managed in general and about the ways in which appraisal will be managed in the future — for there are choices to be made there in particular .
9 We have allowed ourselves a little licence with the sauce , ’ Angelina explained .
10 We 've amused ourselves a little bit by putting William 's initials on there and the arms of his wife who was called Joan .
11 We need to challenge ourselves , to move ourselves on , but we need to give ourselves a safe framework in which to do so .
12 It was , said Mrs Thatcher , when she informed Cabinet colleagues of her decision to stand down , a ‘ funny old world ’ in which a Prime Minister with her record of electoral success should find it necessary to resign .
13 A purchase or redemption by a company of its own shares increases the percentage which a remaining block of shares represents and can result in a shareholder or group of shareholders obtaining control of that company .
14 This is the first occasion on which a Roman horde in Britain has been correctly excavated and much new information about the burial of such treasures is expected as a result .
15 Ionization is the process by which a fast-moving quantity of energy is transferred , leaving them as electrically charged ions .
16 A fire would always be an easy thing from which a superhuman creature like the monster could escape .
17 Monday 's display ran like clockwork , opening and closing of course with Sally B , in between which a veritable pageant of flight took place , ranging from the Barnstorming Days with the Crunchie Stearman trio , Dragon Rapide G–AKIF and the Tiger Moth Diamond Nine team ( the latter operating eight Tigers and a Hornet Moth ) , Biplane Warplanes involved the Shuttleworth Collection 's Hawker Hind and Gloster Gladiator ( making first appearance at GWAD ) and recently — revitalised Swordfish LS326 of the Navy 's Historic Flight .
18 For example , they may frequently be given a role in maintaining employment and thus helping to preserve the political accommodations between classes upon which a successful response to the crisis depends ; this may conflict with their central role in the restructuring of industries in crisis .
19 The removal of Barbe and Celor from the leadership in August 1931 , and the growing stature of Thorez within the party , conspired to create a situation in which a final decision on cultural policy was left in abeyance .
20 Between 1918 and 1929 the Labour vote rose by over six million to the total of 8,364,883 on which a Labour government with Liberal support was returned in 1929 .
21 Alternatively , Small and Hoy have tabulated a series of group molar attraction constants from which a good estimate of δ for most polymers can be made .
22 They saw the role of the state not merely as a set of instrumentalities for securing material welfare but as the focus of a sense of community and citizenship , an institution in which a good common to all classes and recognizable to all interest groups could be articulated .
23 Exploratory talks were held in Beijing on in November and December [ see pp. 37860 ; 37818 ] , after which a first round of full normalization talks was held in Pyongyang in late January 1991 and a second in Tokyo in mid-March [ see p. 38098 ] .
24 Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself , the new replicators will tend to take over , and start a new kind of evolution of their own .
25 Hopefully , sometime in the future , it will be possible to create community schools from which a new breed of professional will emerge .
26 A revised version of the paper was produced for a November meeting , at which a new committee with the same name as the 1968 committee was set up .
27 The Version table records the date on which a new version of an entry was added to the main archive .
28 The end of the cold war gave us real hopes that the Gulf operation could be the seed , round which a new role for the UN would develop .
29 In order to understand why it is that homoclinic orbits are such important features of the Lorenz equations , we will examine the change of behaviour of the system as r passes through a value at which a homoclinic orbit like that shown in Fig. 6.1a occurs .
30 The improvements made in the machines to date do not seem as though they ought to have added up to much , but they appear to have allowed the crossing of a psychological threshold , after which a rich harvest of human error becomes accessible .
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