Example sentences of "[adv] our own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is that a " pluralistic " inference is based on the assumption that such relations depict an objective order of things " out there " , not merely our own impression of such an order , and this is precisely where the main difficulty lies . |
| 2 | My staff and I welcome the opportunity to sit down with local exporters and importers to offer not only our own expertise but to provide the link to the truly international help that is available . |
| 3 | Rattling through the broken no man 's land between the town and the dam , the dark windows of the train showed only our own reflections . |
| 4 | Use only our own girls and warn them to be on their best behaviour . |
| 5 | The solar system contains not only our own planet , but also many other planets , at varying distances from the sun . |
| 6 | Even if it 's only our own ambition . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We have put in entirely our own money , ’ says Hargrave , who has been far from down-at-heel since Biermann 's arrival . |
| 8 | Erm , our own is , obviously our own reasons for wanting this change but we ought to know the needs of others to see whether they correspond . |
| 9 | He said the committee was potentially a very important counter to ‘ that very curious British disease of talking down our own prospects and talking down our own country ’ . |
| 10 | We have stupidly cluttered our lives to the point of frenzy , cramming our culture down our own throats until we choke on it . |
| 11 | He said the committee was potentially a very important counter to ‘ that very curious British disease of talking down our own prospects and talking down our own country ’ . |
| 12 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 13 | We can not rehearse here the analysis supporting this scenario of great educational and training change but perhaps our own experience in the UK suggests how plausible it is . |
| 14 | ‘ We are arguing not just for ourselves , but also for our younger brothers and sisters — and perhaps our own children . ’ |
| 15 | Over largely our own countrymen , who see this usurper as a stronger king than young David can be ? |
| 16 | In supporting our own active participation in , and control over our own affairs , such people are giving us the right kind of help . |
| 17 | By which time the sexual revolution was also wearing a bit thin and became more to do with increasing women 's availability to men than the sexual autonomy and control over our own bodies we had all been promised . |
| 18 | Being honest about our motivation is crucial since , at this stage , we might discover that it is not our own Dream at all , or that our motivation is somewhat dubious : ‘ It will impress my friends ’ , ‘ It will be one in the eye for my parents ’ , ‘ It will ease my sense of guilt ’ , ‘ It will make me feel more secure ’ , ‘ It will give me power over other people ’ , ‘ It will make me feel special ’ , ‘ It 's what my partner keeps suggesting I do ’ , ‘ It 's the opposite of what my partner suggests I do . ’ |
| 19 | Rather , his argument is that our consciousness of ourselves conveys to us that we are not self-enclosed or self-sufficient , not our own cause or our own explanation . |
| 20 | You see , each of us has to make sure that we are listening to God 's voice and not our own fantasies . |
| 21 | Just our own lighting plant and the hens would even come out and meet you in the dark they knew knew you were coming . |
| 22 | To empathise is to set aside our own perception of things and attempt to think the way the other person thinks , or feel the way he feels … a very different quality to sympathy . |
| 23 | We can not jump off our own shadows . |
| 24 | In the past we have also been able to show off our own fairytale Princess — the Americans worshipped Diana for her beauty and commitment to motherhood . |
| 25 | There is quite a lot of X in coffee — probably' enough to affect directly our own enkephalin receptors — but whether it is the major stimulant remains to be seen . |
| 26 | Like usually the top shelf , is usually our own stuff . |
| 27 | Nonetheless our own business remained profitable and has succeeded in growing its market share to the point where it supplies over one third of the gold jewellery materials used in the UK . |
| 28 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 29 | Unlike the budget ‘ Rouge et Noir ’ series this is exclusively devoted to French repertoire and artists with names like d'Indy , Gounod , Fauré , Henry Rabaud , Debussy , Poulenc , Gabriel Pierné , Koechlin , and nearer our own time , Boulez and Messiaen . |
| 30 | We hung up our own coats , ordered G and Ts and settled into the menu . |