Example sentences of "and our [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its eyes can discern very small intervals of time ( it can respond to a falling hand in less than one hundredth of a second ) , and our clumsy attempts to kill it must appear ponderously slow , as if filmed in slow motion . |
| 2 | In an Assize Sermon delivered at Leicester in 1682 , Thomas Ashenden , rector of Dingley ( Northants ) , even went so far as to accuse the King of being too soft on Dissent : " our present divisions , and our manifold menacing mischiefs " , he argued , " we may chiefly date from the late Toleration " , which " allowances proceed from Royal mercy " , and he claimed that the strength for rebellion had come " from the Breasts of Royal Indulgence " . |
| 3 | That our perceptual apparatus is reliable and our abductive sense is sound do not , for the Quinean position , need arguing ; we have ample evidence that they have guided us to the truth on many occasions . |
| 4 | Telegraph/Times readers were more ambivalent , however , and our small sample of Guardian readers preferred the press by a big majority . |
| 5 | We have supported farmers and rural enterprise through features and our Small Rural Business Award and independent food shops competition . |
| 6 | The empty upstairs became the haunt of druggies and our small children would sometimes carry in their needles . |
| 7 | But elderly ladies make me feel uncomfortable and our small talk petered out ; I was glad when she said she must go and congratulate N'dosi and moved away . |
| 8 | Then , as things got worse , and our professional rights and status were further eroded , it seemed as if the only freedom left was to resist . |
| 9 | Thirdly , having overcome our sectional tensions and established a corporate identity we can perhaps enlist the support of our universities and our professional associations to establish more and better access to the funding which in relation to the sciences , has historically been denied to us . |
| 10 | Comic Relief is now in its fifth year , and our serious commitment to the work we support grows — as , unfortunately , does the need for that work . |
| 11 | We are cold and cramped , and apprehensive about our reception , the adequacy of our response to the speeches of welcome , and our awful singing . |
| 12 | In spite of this attitude by some of the die-hards , more and more money was being spent on new craft and equipment and our Technical Branch , which hitherto had concentrated on the maintenance on our fleet of small boarding launches , was being geared up to deal with the new cutter fleet . |
| 13 | Ring ( 0800 ) 373113 between 9.00am and 5.30pm , Monday to Friday , and our Technical Support Staff will talk you through any hardware or software difficulty . |
| 14 | Erm , I from Edinburgh branch , I 'm the Assistant Manager of Services there , erm , that means I 'm in charge of Personnel and Admin , erm , Personal Insurances and our Technical Services Unit . |
| 15 | The attempt would be made to ‘ expose in a lucid manner the relation existing between recent enquiries , and our actual store of knowledge ’ , and not ‘ merely isolated and unconnected abstracts of the several individual investigations ’ . |
| 16 | but er , we would get er , an actual allowance and our actual expenditure and we 'll be able to calculate an actual performance . |
| 17 | The Business Strategy Unit , headed by Ken Currie , will provide a wide range of support to the business managing directors and the chief executive and will be working closely with business and international staff , as well as with Strategic Planning , Corporate Communication , Finance , QIS and our chief scientist . |
| 18 | ‘ And our dear old Tobermory is your first successful student ? ’ |
| 19 | And she was almost looking forward to death , because then she would be with William and our dear mother in a place of peace . |
| 20 | Meantime it gives us great consolation to know that you and our dear children are well . |
| 21 | Kokmen et al , in an investigation of clinical risk factors for AD , stated : ‘ We are unable to rule out a similar increase in risk with a history of previous meningitis or encephalitis ’ , which indicates a possible relation between AD and our 5 positive cases . |
| 22 | It is the Government 's view that if we can implement the package of energy efficiency measures , not least through , for example , the home energy efficiency scheme , additional resources for the energy management assistance scheme , the best practice programme and our regional and publicity activities , we shall be well on the way to achieving significant additional savings . |
| 23 | Green consumers have strength and it lies in our growing numbers and our deep personal conviction that we want a planet fit for our children . |
| 24 | There is first a movement inward by which , instead of living in our surface mind , we break the wall between our external and our subliminal self ; this can be brought about by a gradual effort and discipline or by a vehement transition , sometimes a forceful involuntary rupture — the latter by no means safe for the limited human mind and accustomed to live securely only within its normal limit — but in either way , safe or unsafe , the thing can be done . |
| 25 | Only the general focusing problem and our suggested general approaches appear universally valid ; statements regarding the validity of particular parameter settings must await major breakthroughs in the development of our mathematical models and analytical techniques . ’ |
| 26 | All the motorways were cleared and our sixteen car motorcade cruised down the centre of the freeway at 6Omph . |
| 27 | ( For a political perspective on the issue of VAT on fuel we go live to Torquay and our Political Editor , Peter Hayes , who 's at the Liberal Democrat Conference . ) |
| 28 | Our behaviour shows it , although our talk , discussion and our political agendas and conference agendas do not . |
| 29 | We each got our prime eight and our peripheral … fifty ! ’ |
| 30 | The Volunteer Centre tell us : ‘ We are beginning to do some work in this area to change this practice ’ , and our best wishes go out to that august body . |