Example sentences of "[prep] our [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 2 | Robert Smillie , who became the leader of the Miners ' Federation , told the 1911 conference : " I think it is a shame and a disgrace that the lives of our miners ' wives , from four in the morning until 11 o'clock at night should be one long day of slavery . " |
| 3 | This service is provided through IRPC by a legal expenses insurance policy which we have taken out for each of our customers ' benefit . |
| 4 | To better understand and service your needs , we make a special effort to answer all of our customers ' questions and to help them with any technical problems that may be related to MiLAN products . |
| 5 | At present 85% of our residents ' care are paid for by DHSS Supplementation and we emphasise constantly that it is need that determines care with us not finance . |
| 6 | We had the eerie impression that we were the only people alive and the clip-clop of our horses ' hooves was the last remaining sound under heaven . |
| 7 | I listened to the echoes of our horses ' hoofbeats fade away , my ears straining . |
| 8 | The only thing I share in common with Princess Diana is the date of our fathers ' deaths . |
| 9 | If you 'd like to take out a subscription and become a member of our Subscribers ' Club , see PAGE 74 for details . |
| 10 | You 'll also enjoy all the benefits of being a member of our Subscribers ' Club — see page 71 for details . |
| 11 | Regional Railways have requested that they see copies of our contractors ' performance reports . |
| 12 | In Chemicals and the quality of life we set out to illustrate these achievements in the most effective way possible , consistent with prudent use of our members ' funds . |
| 13 | The outstanding success of the Tax Faculty illustrates the extent of our members ' involvement in taxation work . |
| 14 | And we must remember that our income in 1994 will be determined , at least in part , by the current level of our members ' earnings . |
| 15 | Therefore all of our members ' salaries will increase by 3.75% from that date . |
| 16 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 17 | Many of our beginners ' pieces are at pains to point out that there are three main types of filtration — mechanical — the straining of loose debris from the water ; chemical — the adsorption of chemicals from the water onto another media or a resin ; and biological — the breakdown of ammonia to nitrites to nitrates . |
| 18 | Unfortunately the third sentence sends us reeling back to square one in terms of methodological confusion : we are now told that just because Keynes had tried to provide a theoretical underpinning for the concept of involuntary unemployment does not , ipso facto , oblige subsequent theorists to ‘ 'explain ’ the theoretical constructs of our predecessors ' . |
| 19 | In radio productions I was constantly aware of our listeners ' reactions ; in the consideration of any idea for a show , my first concern was how it would be received in the homes of listeners , nationwide — and , say what you will , I still believe this is the first requisite of Good Showmanship . |
| 20 | ( 6 ) You may not do or permit to be done in the premises anything which may invalidate or increase the premium payable for any policy of insurance maintained by our clients and you will comply with all requirements and recommendations of our clients ' insurers . |
| 21 | We know , in ICI , which of our competitors ' leaders look on loss of market share as a personal affront and will react accordingly , and we know which will always seek technical excellence regardless of commercial application . |
| 22 | See my jazz feature in this issue for an example of what I mean ; it has n't meant less coverage of Classical Music but it will mean we 're acting upon a good number of our readers ' wishes . |
| 23 | ( See page 158 for details of our readers ' event on 12 June . ) |
| 24 | The truth is that they 're so often used as fast turnover test beds for review equipment , and new fishkeeping ideas , that they are probably less interesting than the majority of our readers ' tanks . |
| 25 | THE tip-top Mirror 's still the high point of our readers ' day … even when they 're precariously perched 170ft 2ins above Trafalgar Square . |
| 26 | Lesley : ‘ I think at least 50 per cent of our songs ' lyrics come from my anger at men and sexism generally . ’ |
| 27 | The English language is one of our nations ' greatest assets — culturally , politically and commercially . |
| 28 | I am making a very simple point : that the material conditions of our lives and of our characters ' lives shape , to a large extent , the way those lives progress . |
| 29 | Later they could have wedded sentences in constructions such as causal conditionals , being both a spur to and the reflection of our ancestors ' growing conceptual mastery of the world about them . |
| 30 | She was thinking of our grandparents ' home in the country , our father 's people . |