Example sentences of "our [noun pl] the " in BNC.

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1 So we set some of our comics the toughest challenge of all make us laugh about Maastricht .
2 Two will go down , and unless fortunes change for our clubs the South will make up half of the Konica league next season , re-inforcing the ‘ poor cousins ’ reputation of North and Mid Wales .
3 The writ was never served , but it was perfectly clear that without aggressive and persistent action by our solicitors the Department would have continued to stall indefinitely .
4 Peter Bergg , Liberal Democrat candidate for Darlington , said : ‘ Regional government has been our policy for some years now , I 'm flabbergasted by how many of our policies the Labour Party are taking on board at the moment to try and win the middle ground .
5 What we really need is more green spaces in cities , adequate public transport , traffic-free town centres and vastly improved public cleaning services to make our cities the thriving centres they could be .
6 Our roads were clean and unpolluted , and in our cities the air was not polluted with gases from a million exhaust-pipes .
7 God 's son , all our sons the same
8 We all know that the common agricultural policy has not given our farmers the return that their efficiency deserves or our housewives the food prices that they should be able to expect .
9 As you 'll recall , in the March issue of the Clothes Show Magazine , Wella offered our readers the fantastic opportunity to win a complete hair makeover .
10 Up to this point in our considerations the informational process may seem to have been followed of which many youngsters complain : they are told that " Mummy 's egg " is livened by " Daddy 's seed " but not how Daddy 's seed got there in the first place !
11 However , subject to the Note below , we will pay to our clients the equivalent of such damages as they would be entitled to receive under English law in an English court for any personal injury to the client including illness or death , caused by the negligence , as understood in English law , of the servants or agents of ourselves or of any of our suppliers contracted or sub-contracted by us to provide any part of the arrangements for your holiday as described in this brochure , or excursions as described above , except for air or sea transportation arrangements for which separate conditions apply ( see 8 opposite ) .
12 The Data System is just part of a massive development programme to keep us in front and to offer our clients the best licensed taxi service there is .
13 Roger : Learning for Work will give our clients the opportunity to study full time courses , instead of being constrained by benefit rules and having to attend part time courses within the 21 our rule .
14 Some executives of the company wanted to expand into the travel business , but in 1900 the testy head of American Express , James Congdell Fargo , was still adamantly against it , ‘ I will not have gangs of trippers starting off in charabancs from in front of our offices the way they do from Cooks ’ , he stormed .
15 I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives !
16 And to add an extra thrill to the afternoon , William Hill are giving both our winners the chance to win a fortune with £200 of free bets .
17 ‘ There are 11 players who can not wait to get this game started and as soon as those Scotland jerseys are pulled over our heads the dream of playing against the world champions will give way to proving individual worth , ’ said Robertson .
18 Unbelievably , it all dried out without a bubble , and was duly admired by our visitors the following day .
19 The BMC did a good job in showing our visitors The True Path .
20 It 's time people gave some of our youngsters the credit for realising the state the country is in and knowing that they are the ones who are going to have to put it right — and are prepared to work hard to do so .
21 To crown it all , we shall realise that this strong link between the Spirit and Jesus leads us to think of him in personal terms , as the one who makes Jesus real to us and works out in the common clay of our lives the priceless treasure of Christ 's character .
22 Help us to understand and appreciate more deeply all that the resurrection of our Saviour means , and may we show in our lives the joy which belief in Jesus ' promise means ; help us to live so that we draw others to meet Jesus for themselves .
23 No politicians ever come to visit them : 75% of the houses are in a precarious position , and compared to our lives the conditions are desparately poor for at least 40% of the population .
24 We are , of course , at liberty to employ adjectives like ‘ legal ’ as an inexpensive way of giving our texts the look of authority .
25 We were on our feet the whole time .
26 We can give our troops the means to make that call .
27 In most of our workshops the study texts would be used as a kind of mirror writing whose ‘ decoding ’ simply confirmed what was always and already known or felt to be inscribed in them .
28 However , for our purposes the kind of detail in our example should be sufficient .
29 For our purposes the special strength of the evidence from the interviews , as from the autobiographies , is for relationships within the family , and those must be our main concern here .
30 For our purposes the story starts in the dining-room at No. 10 on 26 July 1956 .
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