Example sentences of "of our [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will it be possible in the context of our presence in the European Economic Community for us to restrict coal imports ? |
| 2 | We said we would let the WO have sight of our evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee , and that we would try to give them more consistent evidence of breaches of planning guidance . |
| 3 | That is the proof of our achievement in the 1980s , to which we can return . |
| 4 | I undertook to make it one of the priorities of our presidency of the European Community later this year to carry through an improved trade and co-operation agreement with Russia . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Light , of course , is an expression of our experience of the electromagnetic energy field itself . |
| 7 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Knowledge of this fact , together with understanding some properties of our body clock , will enable us to promote adjustment of our clock to the new time zone and so reduce the difficulties of jet-lag . |
| 10 | The restructuring has not only provided the opportunity to gather the best of our expertise at the new centres and better serve our clients through local offices but will also provide for much greater efficiency and make us better placed to meet the ever changing demands of the 90s . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A very important aspect of our work over the last nine months has been the development of the new general SVQs . |
| 13 | Lectures , courses , events , workshops etc are organised to promote education and understanding of our work in the broadest sense , as well as passing on specific information and expertise . |
| 14 | Harry Briggs was a burly centre-half from Shotton in County Durham who came late into Football League soccer when he joined the Palace in 1947 at the age of 23 years , but he developed into a pillar of our defence in the early 1950s as well as becoming club captain . |
| 15 | The problems become acute from the vantage of electronic geographic information as was made quite clear to participants in the seminar on The Future of Our Landscape at the Royal Society ( London ) in October 1992 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Bevin was much concerned that the revolution of allied public feeling after Truman 's confused press statement of 30 November 1950 about the possible use of nuclear weapons in Korea had compelled the President to retract it and ‘ thus weakened the deterrent effect of our possession of the atomic weapon ’ . |
| 18 | 4859 ) ; Bakal is another native name , attested in a late fourth-century decree of Ptolemy I from which we derive much of our knowledge about the early hellenistic city ( SEG ix.1 , line 81 ; M. Austin ( 1981 ) The Hellenistic World , no.264 for translation , but omitting the names at the end ) . |
| 19 | Much of our knowledge about the domestic and workshop accommodation has been derived from aerial survey , supplemented in recent years by larger area excavations and improved recovery techniques . |
| 20 | Children play beneath the Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception , Panjim . |
| 21 | Just after half-past eight on the morning of 3 January a small group of men and women entered the porch of Our Lady of the Seven Dolours in the Fulham Road . |
| 22 | This time the message was addressed to his friend John Macnab , who was among those kneeling before the altar of Our Lady of the Seven Dolours . |
| 23 | On the main altar is a Škréta painting of Our Lady with the old chains of the bridge hanging above Her head . |
| 24 | As part of the strategy to shift more of our activity to the rapidly-growing Asia-Pacific region , we are building , in a joint venture , a 200,000-tonnes-a-year polyethylene plant in Indonesia . |
| 25 | If we can see this wealth of ideas as stimulations to the imagination rather than as what we have hitherto understood as literal truth we may gain deeper insights into the true nature of our relationship with the living Earth . |
| 26 | The fact that rivers are such a symbol of endurance and of changeless change is what makes their management a touchstone for the whole issue of our relationship with the natural world . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This is a very high number of cases appearing only in local newspapers , especially because of the imbalance of our sample towards the national papers . |
| 29 | Ultimately , we must have a strong , indigenous film production industry so that we can make strong and successful films which will speak of our culture to the outside world with creativity , power and commitment . |
| 30 | We have also looked further back , to the roots of our culture in the classical period , when philosophers first interpreted happiness as peace of mind . |