Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Shandwick offered the opportunity to retain our own name and develop autonomously with no interference and they have been totally true to their word . |
| 2 | It was a nice bit of play by Deane which gave Speed the opportunity to translate our complete domination into material advantage . |
| 3 | It was n't worth going back to Edinburgh ( after the graduation ceremony ) so we took the opportunity to visit our old friends the Kembles , who live in South Croydon , which is only a mega traffic jam 's throw from Gatwick . |
| 4 | Having said that , we have , of course , taken the opportunity to review our own sales operation in Europe . |
| 5 | When we were satisfied with every detail of our design , ERA made an application to the Commission of European Communities ( E.C. ) Energy Directorate for 30% of the funding to put our estimated £1.3 million , Easthall Passive Solar Energy Demonstration Project into practice . |
| 6 | ’ Can pay , wo n't pay ’ is shorthand : written out in full , their credo was , ’ We have the money to make our proper contribution to the cost of essential local services , but , because we wish to indulge in political point-scoring , we will withhold that contribution — knowing full well that by doing so we will force local authorities either to increase charges for the great majority of law-abiding citizens , or to cut services . ’ |
| 7 | He was soon called ‘ Neil drip ’ for he had the patience to feed our worst cases of enteritis with a fountain pen filler , in which he inserted nutritious liquid to keep life in the tiny bodies , and begin to build them up again . |
| 8 | The extent of these climatic zones , together with others of more intermediate type such as the Mediterranean , makes the attempt to regard our own climate as normal an extremely prejudiced point of view . |
| 9 | Jo Spence gave us the courage to open our own family albums , to remember the past , to acknowledge both the pleasure and the pain , and to celebrate the sublime , scruffy , misunderstood mystery of growing up female . |
| 10 | We can even be drawn into the need to fulfil our ideals , put forward our political ambitions , as well as the desire to see our religious beliefs accepted by others . |
| 11 | Accusations against his criminality and bestiality are related to the desire to purify our own culture and civilisation . |
| 12 | The need to generate our own income has to continue but we are loath to keep asking our teachers and members for ‘ money ’ — so — ‘ please ’ perhaps all Area Organisers and QTs will consider organising enjoyable profitable events for the benefit of members and the Society during 1989 . |
| 13 | I agree with my hon. Friend that it is vital at this time , when there is the greatest risk of proliferation that the world has ever known and when the world 's greatest nuclear power is in a state of disintegration , that we ensure that while we take every positive and constructive step to try to deal with that very grave situation , we recognise the need to maintain our essential safeguard , our own nuclear deterrent . |
| 14 | We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it . |
| 15 | In the wake of the gene-splicing revolution , we have the technology but have we the right to make our own animals ? |
| 16 | I hope we can use the occasion to brief our potential witnesses and to meet local Newport petitioners on whose behalf you are acting . |
| 17 | Because you 've lost the chance to use our physical attraction to divert me . ’ |
| 18 | One way or another , though , we must have the scope to lighten our self-imposed burden of debt . |
| 19 | Tackling crime and the fear of crime forms a vital part of the strategy to make our inner cities better places to live and work . |
| 20 | We are asking the Government to bring our two brothers to this plane . |
| 21 | All over Britain it was the same story — with shops re-stocking their shelves as the rush to read our stunning scoop continued . |
| 22 | We infiltrate informants into the underworld to organize our own counter-espionage apparatus … |
| 23 | It is probable that , for a large part of our lives , little emphasis was placed on the use of imagination , colour and rhythm and yet we were all born with the potential to use our right brain just as much as the left . |
| 24 | The treaties have the potential to change our constitutional arrangements and the powers of Parliament . |
| 25 | You come all the way to see our fine city with its many points of historical and civic interest , also many quaint customs , and you wake up dead in some back alley or as it might be floating down the Ankh , how are you going to tell all your friends what a great time you 're having ? |
| 26 | The ability to run our own business was very important . ’ |
| 27 | While most of us would acknowledge that some level of stress is required to enable us to function and to be sufficiently motivated , the effects of continued high levels of stress have been shown to have a damaging effect on the ability to maintain our personal sense of purpose , usefulness and well-being . |
| 28 | And in turn we can shed the soul to find our true self with the mind . |
| 29 | We also hope you will follow our campaigns in your quarterly newsletter and that you will find the time to study our in-depth campaign reports as they become available . |
| 30 | A minimum of historical awareness and a willingness to confront our own past is what is needed to teach us that , quite as much as knowledge of ‘ Arab culture ’ . |