Example sentences of "in our [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The past 10 years has seen an explosion in our knowledge of the molecular biology of cancer , and nowhere has this been as exciting as in the field of large bowel cancer . |
| 2 | Finally , we were supported in our approach by the social work department 's growing emphasis on trying to deal with problems in the context of the local community and where possible through mainstream schooling rather than any other provision such as residential schools . |
| 3 | Peter continued : ‘ The sales staff continually come up with innovative proposals , and their approach is reflected in our success of the past few years . |
| 4 | ‘ The bigger , brighter premises will be a great help in our work in the Finaghy area , ’ explained area manager Beth Robinson . |
| 5 | Join us in our quest for the classic canteen . |
| 6 | In our survey of the financial arrangements of NEP as they applied to the Smolensk guberniia , it was noted how they were unstable and poorly defined from the outset , leading to economic and social tensions at the lower levels . |
| 7 | Of course , what really drives the case for co-operative R&D ventures is technological spillovers , and , as we saw in our survey of the empirical literature on technological spillovers in section III , these can be easy to exaggerate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | This capacity to analyse feelings , hopes and intentions is taken in our culture as the main criterion for being a ‘ normal ’ ordinary adult . |
| 12 | In our discussion of the classic class theories in the previous chapter , we argued that there was a degree of common ground between Marxist and Weberian approaches . |
| 13 | As noted in our discussion of the optimum size of clubs , the arrival of an additional individual reduces the taxes that existing residents have to pay to finance a given level of expenditure . |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher succeeded in shifting the balance of power in our society from the reactionary state to the creative individual . |
| 15 | The imbalance in our treatment of the two languages clearly reflects the traditional non-acceptance of sign language as an entity capable of mastery by hearing users . |
| 16 | In our response to the English language , both as readers and writers , we depend on an intimate feeling for words and rhythms and innuendoes and images and ironies which can only be achieved by exposure to great English literature . |
| 17 | We believe the private sector has an important role to play ( see the section on Environmental Education in our response to the proposed National Sustainability Report ) . |
| 18 | Much of what we say in our response to the proposed National Sustainability Report is relevant to the points made in this section of Threshold 21 . |
| 19 | An important question in our interpretation of the moral structure of the tale must , however , be whether we regard the " swyving " of the two women as the visitation of some form of punishment upon them . |
| 20 | Should not we include such a policy in our manifesto for the next general election ? |
| 21 | We would stress that the broad lines of development which we propose in our description of the 10 levels under this attainment target will require flexible interpretation since we recognise that language development is not linear but recursive , with pupils returning repeatedly to the same aspects of competence and reinforcing their skills on each occasion . |
| 22 | If we allow Korea to go by default and to fall within the Soviet orbit , the world will feel that we have lost another round in our match with the Soviet Union , and our prestige and the hopes of those who place their faith in us will suffer accordingly … . |
| 23 | Er our only problem is that some of our housing is concentrated in rather large blocks , and that does put pressure looking for v var variety of sites in the county and we are erm getting a lot of objection for some potential development sites in our area at the present moment . |
| 24 | In our example of the Copernican Revolution , this included the development of an adequate mechanics and optics . |
| 25 | It is this increasingly autonomous nature of population change that prompts us to tackle this subject first in our review of the broad geographical patterns underlying the changes affecting individual places . |
| 26 | This positive facilitating function should not be lost sight of in our study of the negative controlling function . |
| 27 | In our search for the ideal occupational therapy we have examined motorised objects ( boring , according to the hens ) and water pumps which moisten their dry food ( more fun ) . |
| 28 | Identifying as unquestionably spontaneous whatever can not even on the most indulgent interpretation be ascribed to considered choice , what will be the place of spontaneity in our model of the rational man ? |
| 29 | We therefore included the case in our analysis for the post-Black period 1984–90 as this information should be regarded as testing rather than generating the Seascale hypothesis . |
| 30 | In our analysis of the 1987 campaign we have distinguished more clearly between personal factors such as political interest and mobilizing factors such as television viewing ; and we have detected a strong trend in the balance of influence between these two influences . |