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

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1 On behalf of the Ulster Unionist party , I join other hon. Members in expressing our sympathy to the families of those who have been killed and to all who were injured in the incident at the Musgrave Park hospital at the weekend .
2 We did not offer the all-day hospitality of previous years but were delighted to see members at the tea parties we organised , and enjoyed chatting with visitors to our stand in the Women in the Rural Community tent .
3 Er and that er in my view anyway demonstrated that we 'd got it about right in terms of our assessment of the effects of the Southern Bypass .
4 We have been trying to stop the deteriorating effects of ageing on our skin since the times of the pharaohs .
5 I spent most of my childhood holidays chasing our tent along the tops of cliffs in the middle of the night as gale-force winds carried it towards the sea .
6 Perhaps one should ‘ allow that a certain knowledge derived from our experience of the appearances of things should be termed genuine knowledge ’ .
7 This environmental movement today is really saying to all of us , erm in order to avoid building platforms off the coast of the United States , we are willing to risk sending our sons to the sands of the Middle East to die perhaps for the preservation of a life style , that some of us are unwilling to develop here in our own country .
8 I shall cover our response to the needs of the voluntary sector , of Eastern Europe , of Africa and I shall say a particular few words about the needs of children , the subject which is of course at the very heart of your work .
9 We are cold and cramped , and apprehensive about our reception , the adequacy of our response to the speeches of welcome , and our awful singing .
10 Equally , who is fighting our case in the corridors of power ?
11 Moreover , our support for the recommendations of the Common Land Forum is well known .
12 The last four lines of Kubla Khan are a dazzling testament to the power of the poet to address the most fundamental and intangible aspects of our lives , to retrieve the most powerful secrets of our existence from the depths of the subconscious and ultimately to convey their force and meaning to those willing to receive them .
13 May we open our eyes to the problems in the world around us and may we do whatever we can to make other people 's lives happier .
14 They were due to give a concert at the Odeon , Weston-super-Mare and it was planned that we would do our piece with the Stones on the roof .
15 He saw the foulness of sin , our rebellion against God , and our indifference to the sufferings of others .
16 For this reason , we have to keep a clear idea in our heads of the relationships between the variables in the whole causal process .
17 Newspaper , radio and television reports are intimately involved in the formation of our images of the places beyond our immediate experience , and the pictures we form of the places featured in our study are no exception .
18 It seemed to Locke that the strained sense of ‘ perceive ’ must indeed be the one on which all the rest of our talk about the objects of perception should be fashioned .
19 You published last week an account of our ordeal at the hands of burglars who left us barricaded for 37 hours in a tiny bathroom .
20 In September 1692 he produced a Whiggish Jacobite tract in which he rehearsed all the traditional charges against William ( adding to the list the recent massacre at Glencoe ) , and argued that " If it was to preserve our Liberties from the insults of King James , we placed the Prince upon the Throne , we have certainly either mistaken the Disease or the Cure " .
21 If we accept it , as many people seem to with enthusiasm , then we would have to include the rats , mice , dogs , cats , and numerous other creatures used in the laboratory , in our outcry over the revelations about the sale of microcephalic infants .
22 Taste the Natural Fruits of the Countryside with Our Traditional Fruit Wines , Produced in Our Cellars on the Banks of the River Nidd .
23 ‘ We hereby give our consent for the purposes of Section 57(1) of the Financial Services Act 1986 to the issue of the investment advertisement attached hereto , dated and signed for the purpose of identification ’ .
24 In Shklovsky 's view , Sterne 's Tristram Shandy consists of a series of violations of literary conventions which draw our attention to the forms of fiction ; in so doing it transforms formal questions into content .
25 This distinction between cognitions ( the informational building blocks , the stored bits of information ) and specific attitudes or opinions is critical , for it not only emphasizes the public 's growing dependence on the mass media for information but it also draws our attention to the consequences of such a dependence .
26 The case for re-thinking what we mean by practice and its relation with theory has been made at an abstract level by writers who draw on the two very different philosophical traditions which contest the dichotomy , Marxism with its concept of praxis , and the American pragmatists who direct our attention to the consequences of our actions .
27 Let's then just turn our attention to the facilities in this country , the sort of things you 've heard Stan saying here in the studio that there 's a lot to offer in this country , lot 's of different kinds of scenery , lot 's of different types of attractions , but let's just take a look at the sort of facilities that are available in this country .
28 None the less , the question we have posed is an important one even if it has no ready answer ; important because it directs our attention to the ways in which disciplines acquire , develop and , not to be forgotten , discard knowledge .
29 The preceding composite has focused our attention on the effects of the forthcoming legislation .
30 While organization theorists have provided a considerable service by focusing our attention upon the notions of ideologies and schemas , once this has been done it is relatively easy to identify what the schemas are .
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