Example sentences of "[pron] a [adj] [noun] of " 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 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 ’ .
6 We are ourselves a major source of the moisture in the air inside our homes .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Ionization is the process by which a fast-moving quantity of energy is transferred , leaving them as electrically charged ions .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 ] .
13 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 .
14 Hopefully , sometime in the future , it will be possible to create community schools from which a new breed of professional will emerge .
15 The Version table records the date on which a new version of an entry was added to the main archive .
16 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 .
17 The extent to which a planned use of tax benefits reduces a recipient 's tax burden is illustrated in the answer to a Parliamentary Question tabled by Gordon Brown , relating to the 1986. -7 tax year .
18 Having walked through the wood , she emerged on to a small , high plateau , from which a wide sweep of the countryside below was visible .
19 Awareness of these characteristics of language can help in the design of a generic spatial language with which a wide variety of users can interact with a spatial database .
20 W. T. Stead 's sensational exposé of the latter in his articles on ‘ The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon ’ generated a sense of outrage with which a wide spectrum of public opinion found itself in sympathy .
21 The justification of the partnership approach is that it encourages the notions of quality and excellence , whilst providing a framework within which a wide range of activities can be given a sense of coherence and wholeness .
22 The Challenge project would provide further resources for each development , and a new interdisciplinary theme through which a wide range of subject departments could make contributions to pupils ' learning .
23 In each school the library committee provided a forum in which a wide range of subject teachers were not only permitted to involve themselves , but to some extent obliged to participate in formulating specific curriculum/library plans .
24 This fluidity of grouping practice , in classrooms dominated by curriculum-specific work areas in which a wide range of totally dissimilar tasks were simultaneously undertaken , occasionally led to extremely complex organizational problems and a good deal of confusion .
25 Uncertainty extends also to the question of Molla Yegan 's death date , about which a wide divergence of opinion has grown up amongst the various sources , who give dates ranging from 840/1436–7 to 878/1473–4 .
26 More positively , they show how attention to detail may bring off results which a simple reorganisation of staff does not .
27 Another reason to be cautious of over-reliance on the mean is that there are certain important between-group differences which a simple comparison of group means can not reveal .
28 Instead , Angeloz proposed a pact among all political parties under which a concrete plan of government would be drawn up to preserve and consolidate a system of democracy at a time of acute economic crisis and increased social tension .
29 But I shall stop to buy some of those beautiful little slate-green lentils for which the district is famous and which a greedy guest of mine recently proclaimed as good as caviare — and also to telephone to Madame Barattero at the Hotel du Midi at Lamastre to say we are coming for dinner .
30 As a result they were unable to perceive the direction in which a genuine rehabilitation of price theory must be developed and proceeded instead to construct models which suffer from the very defects that invalidate the perfectly competitive model .
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