Example sentences of "[v-ing] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see it may be that Dean 's right I must admit I think I , I agree with Dean I think he is right that the real problem is that natural selection may have fitted us by , as it were , rigging our emotional system . |
| 2 | It seems obvious that the time is now ripe for a completely new approach to our commercial position in the present and future world , by using our new natural resources , creating new jobs and new industries , and utilising our known talents , facilities and advantages to the best possible effect . |
| 3 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 4 | He appeared reasonable at first , speaking to us slowly and explaining our daily routine . |
| 5 | Censorship is the banning of material on political grounds , selection is matching our proposed client with their projected information and leisure needs . |
| 6 | FOR THE entire 1970s , this was the standard NME favourable review , enabling our non-hippy staff to write about anything weird without listening to it . |
| 7 | We define ourselves as ‘ normal ’ by repressing our own capacity for violence or the visionary — just as we suppress and marginalize those people in the body politic who 've gone over limits . |
| 8 | So the notion of individual deterrence seems to be of little value in justifying our penal practices . |
| 9 | WE 'RE HAVING BIG TROUBLE JUSTIFYING OUR LARGE SALARIES SINCE WE STOPPED SPYING ON THE RUSSIANS ! |
| 10 | Thus in April 1988 he wrote in the New Statesman , ‘ Underpinning our social policy are those traditions — the diffusion of power , civil obligation , and voluntary service — which are central to Conservative philosophy … |
| 11 | With debates about feminism and culture it had been seen by many as the key to understanding our current dilemmas . |
| 12 | Pressing our itching ears to the caressing fingers . |
| 13 | The author of the report , Dr Lynda Warren , shows how Marine Nature Reserves provide an important way of protecting our marine heritage . |
| 14 | Conventional publications will be made more efficient by networking our copy-preparation hardware and software to the databases . |
| 15 | We 're on Sixth Avenue , puffing on a prosaic perfecto and minding our own business — when John turns down Twenty-Second Street , breaks into a run , and starts loosening his pants … |
| 16 | My Right Honourable Friend will be announcing our imposing Standard Spending Assessments in the near future . ’ |
| 17 | Do we have an officer co-ordinating our 1992 effort ? |
| 18 | In France , out own man , Bernard Violet , has been successfully co-ordinating our appointed distributors Heuga SARL . |
| 19 | But is it not a fact in the real world that we prepare for war during peacetime by keeping our armed forces equipped and ready , rather than disbanding them and waiting until war breaks out before beginning to re-arm and train new forces ? |
| 20 | The horse 's behaviour may be modified by trying to get it to have confidence in us and to like us ; and by keeping our own aggression under control , so that we do n't arouse the horse 's aggressive instinct . |
| 21 | Well again you see , I , I , with us keeping our own pigs which we always did , we were always better off than anybody else and er we er , we , you see when we kept these pigs , we used to either buy or , or breed some young ones see . |
| 22 | A stylish smock-style fleece jacket worth £120 will soon be keeping our fourth prize winner warn . |
| 23 | A man with a little tin cart was keeping our beautiful city clean , like it says on the posters , watched by the usual couple of loafers , one of them sitting on a fire hydrant . |
| 24 | The increased qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers , to which we have agreed in the treaty , means that we must have a way of keeping our national Parliaments better informed than they are at present . |
| 25 | It feels like there are more of us coming together in all our groups to continue challenging our various communities on their continued exclusion of us . |
| 26 | ‘ Oil , if you like , is the white canvas on which we 're painting our multi-coloured vision , ’ said Mr MacDonald . |
| 27 | We can not establish this special responsibility of officials merely by applying our ordinary convictions about individual responsibility to the circumstances of their case . |
| 28 | This again highlights the complexity of real situations which we must bear in mind when applying our over-simple divisions of executive , bureaucracy and assembly . |
| 29 | In fact , we were so absorbed in relating our relative rites of passage , the interview was almost forgotten . |
| 30 | Not to be individuals doing our own thing and , walking our own path , but working together with you , in harmony with you and your body in our community , in our situation where we are . |