Example sentences of "[noun pl] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | No Pruning-knives our fertile Branches teaze , |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | During the summer months our casual trade has been fairly steady and a number of these casuals are now regular customers . |
| 5 | And tomorrow night we 'll see some of the more remarkable aerobatic feats our flying Falcs are capable of . |
| 6 | To improve matters our electronic Frankenstein monster needs better peripherals for expression , and internals for ‘ add-ins ’ to aid its comprehension . |
| 7 | ‘ Apart from membership and donations our main source of income comes from boarding dogs for people , ’ she explained . |
| 8 | In both areas our principal concern is in ensuring that the interests and expectations of life assurance policyholders and members of pension funds are best protected . |
| 9 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 10 | For years our annual mileage was as high as 37,000 — we could have saved a fortune . ’ |
| 11 | Over the years our local support groups — Open Houses , New Mums , Mobile Mums and Mothers in Employment , have evolved according to different needs at different times of parents and children . |
| 12 | Britain was actually given a lower standard check , on the basis that we would be using in many places our own coal , which has a quite a high sulphur content , or de-sulphurisation , we were given a lower standard , or a higher standard , or whatever it is , it was more relaxed for Britain , and that 's why I like the idea of taking this up with the M.E.D. , how it 'll happen , how it will square in his mind . |
| 13 | In evaluating its credentials our prime example will again be Rawls ' theory . |
| 14 | ‘ What foolish rabbit-warrens our well-to-do houses are obliged to be , ’ William Morris complained in 1884 ; ‘ instead of being planned in the rational ancient way … a big hall , to wit , with a few chambers tacked on to it for sleeping or sulking in . ’ |
| 15 | They ( the record company ) were impressed with how far we 'd got doing things our own way . ’ |
| 16 | They ( the record company ) were impressed with how far we 'd got doing things our own way . ’ |
| 17 | That resistance may also derive strength from a suspicion that improvisation in this context merely exploits our limited knowledge of medieval musical practices in order to establish a creative freedom for modern performers who are denied it in virtually every other kind of ‘ serious ’ music in the Western tradition . |
| 18 | Not just because of the extraordinary value it represents , but because of the unique qualities our auspicious holiday retreat has to offer . |
| 19 | Lindon Harrisson 's work tackling the problems our young people face and the ongoing work of David Martin to democratize the European Community institutions . |
| 20 | Other examples from his list of claimed sense-qualifiers turn out to belong , instead , to a class of peculiarly restrictive adjectives which we discuss elsewhere ( Chapter 7 and also Ferris , in preparation ) : ( 31 ) their main faults our prime suspect he was named first citizen These adjectives , unlike most , are inherently restrictive , and select the particular entity to be identified by a speaker out of an already assumed body of entities ; thus the faults in the first example are not main faults in any general sense , as would be required if they were to be sense-qualifiers ; they are those that come out in front , relative to the background group of all their faults , relevant on the particular occasion where the expression is used . |
| 21 | erm yes , we , we have problems in this country in relation to cleanliness and erm litter free areas and various other factors , but in genuine terms our English hotel still stands up well in comparison with our European and American colleagues . |
| 22 | We will always give the security forces our full backing within the rule of the law , and — against Labour opposition — ensure that they have the special powers they need to protect the whole community from violence . |
| 23 | The World Cup illustrated what high standards our aspiring outside-halves must achieve . |
| 24 | During one of my absences our open grate was replaced by a wood-burning stove . |
| 25 | Since then Jim who manages the project engineer course , has spoken to Trevor , and also since then we 've had er contact from Regional Railways our major client , who have actually said that they require us to have this expertise . |
| 26 | For these various reasons our own use of full life stories for understanding later life both in the past and today remains exceptional . |
| 27 | For two hours our own guns have been bombarding us , and if it goes on I shall take my company and bombard the gunner with these grenades ! ’ |
| 28 | Now the present British government is very anxious to give the Russians our financial expertise rather than practical help to promote a market economy . |
| 29 | Our sales volumes at these sites are five times our European average . |
| 30 | The return of women to the homefront to live in varying degrees of poverty has been paralleled by an intensification of family-centred propaganda to remind us that women are the ‘ natural ’ homemakers , and that in difficult and unsettled times our prime responsibility is to make sure that our men and our children and our dependent relatives are properly cared for . |