Example sentences of "to our [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A simple Lecture to our easy Kind . |
2 | I think Holland were the better side last night … patient & pretty smooth moving the ball around ( compated to our typical British ‘ pashion ’ ) . |
3 | Palace went to Reading and poor Dick Graham had to pick the ball out of our net no less than 10 times as Palace slumped to our highest scoring League defeat . |
4 | Finally , congratulations to our contributing editor , GEOFF DYER , whose book about jazz , But Beautiful , has gained him a Somerset Maugham award . |
5 | Although the emphasis is on liaising between our clients and ourselves , attention has also focused on improvements to our internal records and controls . |
6 | How they are put into practice will vary , not only because of changing external circumstances , but also because our own state fluctuates , and we adapt our domestic lives to some degree to our changing levels of energy and mood . |
7 | This was largely due to our changing role as offshore operators increasingly contracted out activities not directly involved in their core business of exploration and production . |
8 | Further they were partying far into the night every night after most of us had retired to our weary bed . |
9 | It may sound rather fanciful to our western world , but many such ancient ideas are associated in some way with established scientific fact . |
10 | To our western eyes as he stood in his raggy , holed clothes in front of his mud hut he would appear very poor . |
11 | You ca n't find an example of pain and suffering , compared to our Western art where pathos is everywhere . |
12 | With the UK 's known oil and gas reserves in the North Sea beginning to run down , the search for new reserves has shifted to our western seas . |
13 | I am referring , of course , to the fact that birds ' knees apparently bend in the opposite direction to ours — they appear to lift their legs backwards in contrast to our forward movement ( Figure 5 ) . |
14 | But that has n't happened to our European competitors , who have more bank holidays than the British . |
15 | But Steedman said : ‘ The risk to our European status would be considerable with fans coming from the south to see games . ’ |
16 | Peter Harris on how the British approach of designing and buying a home differs to our European neighbours . |
17 | We must have many other things to say — to women about their interests , needs and values , to constitutional reformers about decentralisation and pluralism , to the party itself about democratising our own affairs , to our European partners about a new European agenda — but our main task is to identify with that majority constituency . |
18 | All this in a choice of four languages , English , French , German and Spanish , so will teach your child the basic understanding of foreign languages which ca n't be a bad thing , as every day , we grow closer to our European neighbours . |
19 | You will see from the lists above that modem education brings us up from early childhood to use our left brains in preference to our right brains . |
20 | Can he assure me that , if he has not already done so , he will send a copy of that report to our right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment ? |
21 | Will my hon. Friend speak to our right hon. Friend the Chancellor about introducing financial incentives similar to those for unleaded fuel so as to encourage speedier acceptance of a lower-sulphur fuel ? |
22 | He adds these words , which I ask my right hon. Friend to pass on to our right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer : ’ However , there is a recognition that some responsibility for securing fair competition lies with the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
23 | Lord Denning recognised that " in our constitutional theory Parliament is supreme but he saw the judges as the real " guardians of our constitution " and he felt that they ought to be able to pronounce on the validity of the conventions and " ought to have a power of judicial review of legislation similar to that in the United States : whereby the judges can set aside statutes which are contrary to our unwritten constitution — in that they are repugnant to reason or to fundamentals " . |
24 | But the word ‘ plane ’ could not possibly have conveyed to our eighteenth-century ancestors the meaning which it carries at the top of this page . |
25 | Creative solutions to our ecological problems ? |
26 | To our zealous eyes , hypocrisy was everywhere . |
27 | Thanks to years of quiet and patient work by our team , the relationship with the tax authorities is strong , effective and to our mutual benefit . |
28 | ( Three months later , to our mutual delight , The Mortgage Corporation came back for another £100 million . ) |
29 | I propose an advance on your future status that will assist you at this point and hold you fast to our mutual course . |
30 | Early in 1981 , our liaison with the French Customs was now well established and we often worked together to our mutual advantage . |