Example sentences of "[noun] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at Lukla our intrepid group of sherpas , who had made our journey through this seldom explore , high-altitude region possible , were well rewarded for their stalwart efforts on our behalf . |
| 2 | In his inaugural speech on 28 July , President Fujimori promised to fully respect human rights : ‘ The terrorist violence our fledgling democracy currently faces can not justify the occasional or systematic violation of human rights . ’ |
| 3 | And in this sense , when we liberate South Africa we will also create , we hope a state in the world which will become foremost in fighting racism all over the world and at the lower level our community based organizations our non-governmental organizations that have across colour built up structures to move communities forward if our friends in Eastern Europe and elsewhere could see how that is done at grass roots level in the hell of racism as I say they would have a lot to learn . |
| 4 | At CBR our main productions originated in Studio ‘ A ’ . |
| 5 | At a stroke our artistic patrimony has been increased by a treasure which is about to go on display after being unseen for seventy years . |
| 6 | Yeah , but , but our dep our , our department our fat slob wo n't allow it wo n't let us have any overtime |
| 7 | ‘ I checked with Orson our head waiter , Mr Banville , and he swears you were served after fifteen minutes . ’ |
| 8 | On the Tuesday our proper visits began to the surrounding area . |
| 9 | No Pruning-knives our fertile Branches teaze , |
| 10 | We shall press to a vote our reasoned amendment , which will redress three important issues . |
| 11 | We hope that enough progress can be made for that objective to be accomplished , and shall continue to give the Secretary-General of the United Nations our full support . |
| 12 | All we have are accounts , and in that part of the study our contrasting sources are those within the class and its social order , and those without , including , of course , the teacher unfortunate enough to have to tangle with the kids whose daily life-situation that classroom encompasses . |
| 13 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 14 | For the first meeting of our 1990-91 winter programme our invited speaker was Mr Michael Parker of ‘ Centro ’ , the West Midlands Transport Executive , who gave us a fascinating insight into the planning , routes and probable operation of the intended West Midlands light rail system . |
| 15 | The only programme our free-with-petrol tranny would pick up was Soviet propaganda , in English , late at night . |
| 16 | Many in the Labour movement were prepared to admit that without a strong combination forcing the National Government out of office " we may not get a chance for a very long time of putting into effect our ultimate aims " . |
| 17 | PEGGY SECORD Our New President |
| 18 | We are doing our best to keep our costs as low as possible , bearing in mind our primary duty of setting and ensuring safety standards . |
| 19 | Paragraph , this is quite a major job , as I am sure you will appreciate it and I think a consultant is very likely a must for us , bearing in mind our various units . |
| 20 | First , the high earnings per share after extraordinary items , which is increasingly relevant to the proposed new accounting standards and secondly , that we 're recommending a maintained dividend which we can prudently do , bearing in mind our reasonable dividend cover and low net debt . |
| 21 | His words called to mind our own culpability , which we find hard to admit . |
| 22 | During the summer months our casual trade has been fairly steady and a number of these casuals are now regular customers . |
| 23 | To this end we asked Martin Beckett our regional pig adviser from ADAS to look into the alternatives . |
| 24 | But since the initial motion was put forward by the policy and resources committee the question of local government review has become more prominent within the minds of this council and other councils across the country , and I think that issue needs to be addressed before we make as a cou , a council our final decision on the County Farms estate . |
| 25 | May our apostolic work be affirmed and expanded in the years ahead . |
| 26 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 27 | I would n't say what is proposed would lessen the amount of work our external auditors have to do . ’ |
| 28 | Since that time there has been an uneasy peace in the world the price of which has been constant vigilance and in keeping that peace our two countries have continued together as the witness of young American Airforce men currently stationed in this country . |
| 29 | And tomorrow night we 'll see some of the more remarkable aerobatic feats our flying Falcs are capable of . |
| 30 | To improve matters our electronic Frankenstein monster needs better peripherals for expression , and internals for ‘ add-ins ’ to aid its comprehension . |