Example sentences of "[prep] our [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many religions encourage the idea that our current condition is temporary , and that old age should be a time of looking towards our place in the next life which is more important . |
| 2 | But much more detailed and as a result not only of about twelve days ' training which we 've undertaken in that area with the management team , or various of them , but also of our experience over the last eighteen months in operating it . |
| 3 | because of our fears over water supplies , we have reduced abstraction to less than two thirds of our licence during the last 2 years , but we can not get away from the fact that this is a severe drought which affects every underground source . |
| 4 | On Sunday 6th we have a free day — a much needed respite to enable us to prepare some of our work for the next week — but in the evening we went to dinner with from the embassy , as well as with two senior visitors from London , one from the British Council ( , who is responsible for all Chinese visits ) and one from the Foreign Office . |
| 5 | A very important aspect of our work over the last nine months has been the development of the new general SVQs . |
| 6 | have the er figures in front of you of our progress during the last twelve months you will no doubt see that we are in a very nice financial position er only a pound and a penny off that magic thousand pound in in the club now . |
| 7 | Jeffery ( 1960 , pp. 367–8 ) draws an interesting conclusion from this , which echoes one of our concerns in the last chapter : |
| 8 | It tells us that if we could just advance the intimacy of our relationship to the next step we would be satisfied to hold at that level until the wedding . |
| 9 | Our efforts at self-help have been much encouraged by the generosity of Mr Peter Leaver , Q.C. , Mr Samuel Stamler , Q.C. , and other members of Mr Stamler 's Chambers , who have undertaken to meet the cost ofthe Law Reports and some of our journals for the next five years . |
| 10 | Some members who had not taken a journey by train and particularly by steam train for years came on one or both of our trips on the 22nd of June ( Central Wales Line ) and the 15th of July ( Severn Valley ) , to recapture the atmosphere . |
| 11 | In any case , as the statement of our objectives in the last section shows , we were particularly concerned with the processes and practices by which the project was implemented and enacted . |
| 12 | That is why the Department has written to the Northern region saying in effect , ’ We hope you will take account of our reservations in the next year 's allocations , either in the formula or in tempering the pace of change where you have yet to satisfy yourselves and us that the adjustment you propose is entirely reliable . ’ |
| 13 | It was even more frightening when we reached the cooler highlands , where at night people would huddle on the road for warmth , barely visible and apparently asleep , yet able to leap dexterously out of our path at the last moment . |
| 14 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 15 | We were made so welcome that the evening of our last visit to the Club was a sad one , but we have happy memories of our time with the 1200th Branch . |
| 16 | What I 'm concerned about is those drawings that we 've produced with our resources over the last fifteen years . |
| 17 | This is in addition to and in combination with our agreement of the 29th November last . ’ |
| 18 | What I want to do up our steps on the twentieth of December |
| 19 | Versatile midfielder ‘ super Alan Pardew ’ joined The Eagles from Yeovil Town for a mere £7,500 in 1987 and made tremendous progress with the Palace , so that he missed only one match during our 1988–89 promotion season , for which his drive , energy and cultured right foot provided an invaluable component , and just two games upon our return to the 1st Division in 1989–90 . |
| 20 | It is , however , something that he will be given by Conservative Members and I am sure that he will want to make the most of it before — sadly — he retires from our midst at the next general election . |
| 21 | If there is a standard of comparison for the USSR 's wartime losses , it lies in McNamara 's statistics , rather than in our experience of the Second World War . |
| 22 | ‘ An outstanding feature of the result is the achievement of an underwriting profit in the UK where the benefits of rating action , more selective underwriting procedures and cost controls produced a substantial and continuing improvement in our performance in the second quarter . |
| 23 | ‘ Although we have reported an improvement in our performance in the third quarter the results for the period are dominated by the impact of losses on Hurricane Andrew ’ , which are now estimated at $38m net , including losses of more than $7m incurred through our London Market reinsurance operations . |
| 24 | Should not we include such a policy in our manifesto for the next general election ? |
| 25 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 26 | LAST year in our report on the last British crime survey for the Scottish Office , we were unaware of these findings . |
| 27 | We bought him and his friends a drink which gave him a chance to quiz us on our movements for the next day . |
| 28 | On our retreat in the last year of school , a visiting priest talked to us from Sister Superior 's throne . |
| 29 | Resembling the proverbial Cheshire Cat , SDR General Manager Richard Elliott commented : ‘ I 'm delighted to have ‘ City of Truro ’ on our railway for the first time . |
| 30 | ‘ There was never any doubt that England would be seeded … [ it ] was based on our record in the last two World Cups . |