Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] our " in BNC.
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1 | Quaint tools such as cockles , bows , strikes and pages are skilfully welded by our master craftsmen to this day . |
2 | It is the people who work in the institutions who are most exposed to our dislike . |
3 | When we see the sun , he says , the ‘ immediate object ’ of our perceiving mind is not the sun itself ‘ but something that is intimately joined to our soul , … an idea ’ . |
4 | This opened the issue of how nerve cells might communicate with each other and eventually led to our now-sophisticated understanding of neurotransmitters . |
5 | Of course , this has been keenly misread in our century . |
6 | We are all perhaps very much formed by our inheritance . |
7 | On the wine waiter 's advice we ordered Chateau Rousset 1982/3 Cotes de Bourg ( £15.75 ) a smooth Bordeaux that was gutsy enough to cope with our food . |
8 | We only discriminate between our mediated experiences by a conscious effort , finding ourselves watching comedy , beauty contests and international disasters from the same chair . |
9 | This important thought has been constantly at odds with the equally influential notion that we are all blank paper at birth , ready to be entirely formed by our society . |
10 | My hon. Friend rightly referred to our job as a guarantor power and , in that respect , we must do everything we can with the Turks , the Greeks and the Cypriots to help Secretary-General Perez De Cuellar to make some progress in his remaining weeks of office . |
11 | This desire has shewn itself in some minds in the advocacy of the introduction of some new style especially marking our own age , in others in the wish to see the Architecture which so especially belongs to our own and immediately neighbouring Countries , — and which for some classes of buildings has already been so completely revived , — adapted to the especial requirements of our own times and all the inventions habits and comforts incident to them . |
12 | If ‘ science ’ ( the relativist might well be inclined to use quotation marks ) is highly regarded in our society , then this is to be understood by analysing our society , and not simply by analysing the nature of science . |
13 | ‘ An abscess , long hidden within our society , had just burst : the abscess of complacency and self-flattery , of corruption and protectionism , of narrow-mindedness and self-serving privilege . ’ |
14 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
15 | As Jan Urban , the head of Civic Forum , pointedly remarks in our interview , it 's a case of ‘ too much velvet in our revolution ’ . |
16 | To safeguard against this sort of distortion , yet without basically interfering with our random system , we can build in a sort of screening device which is called stratification . |
17 | Herein perhaps lies the reason why feet have been so downgraded in our religious life . |
18 | For example , we believe as a group that we can only survive in our chosen business of the chemical industry if we serve the customers who are at the leading edge of development , wherever they may be . |
19 | The division of labour is the division of expertise which depends on the shared assumption that almost all work needs special skills , that we do better to concentrate on our own skills , leaving others to their own , and that this arrangement is functional for the community . |
20 | ‘ I literally found about our endorsement of used motor-oil from someone I was phoning to find out whether the stuff was OK , ’ says the group 's Education Programme Co-ordinator at the time , Dave Bruer . |
21 | We have been constantly reminded of our 25th anniversary by the Official Opening Ceremony on Saturday 29th August , the Service of Thanksgiving in the Church of the Holy Rude , the Logie Kirk Commemoration of the University Mace , a prestigious series of public lectures , concerts , exhibitions , parties of all kinds and , yet to come , the Silver Jubilee Graduation Ball in early July . |
22 | ‘ Forgive us , Mistress Tolonen , ’ one of them said , recognising her , ‘ but we are only acting on our master 's orders . ’ |
23 | Much depends on our interpretation of the word ‘ Lawagetas ’ , which was discussed in Chapter 2 , pp. 21–9 , ‘ Social structure ’ . |
24 | The most healing tears are those which neither overwhelm us with pain , nor are so detached from our feelings that we do not really own them . |
25 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |
26 | It could lead to what the theologians have called ‘ Modalism ’ , as though God disclosed himself in these three successive modes or forms — forms which do not correspond to any differences in his own nature , but are merely adopted for our benefit . |
27 | The fact that this is an open question is obviously related to our earlier open question : can a standard route to chaos always be identified in transition to turbulence ? and |
28 | It is naturally made in our own bodies , and is also contained in the animal-derived foods we eat . |
29 | You are n't perhaps related to our previous correspondent , are you ? |
30 | Very few of us naturally look like our dogs so a little augmentation might be called for . |