Example sentences of "[v-ing] our [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He appeared reasonable at first , speaking to us slowly and explaining our daily routine . |
| 4 | Censorship is the banning of material on political grounds , selection is matching our proposed client with their projected information and leisure needs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | The author of the report , Dr Lynda Warren , shows how Marine Nature Reserves provide an important way of protecting our marine heritage . |
| 8 | Conventional publications will be made more efficient by networking our copy-preparation hardware and software to the databases . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | My Right Honourable Friend will be announcing our imposing Standard Spending Assessments in the near future . ’ |
| 11 | Do we have an officer co-ordinating our 1992 effort ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A stylish smock-style fleece jacket worth £120 will soon be keeping our fourth prize winner warn . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Oil , if you like , is the white canvas on which we 're painting our multi-coloured vision , ’ said Mr MacDonald . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | WE should be REBUILDING our run-down transport services , roads , hospitals and schools — yet Ministers plan to SLASH spending . |
| 18 | THOUSANDS of Mirror readers yesterday voted a massive 7-1 in favour of Diana becoming our next Queen . |
| 19 | The verdict came on top of an earlier Mirror phone-in in which readers voted a massive 7-1 in favour of Di becoming our next Queen . |
| 20 | By working with others we can demonstrate the real contribution that chartered architects can make in reviving our urban environment . |
| 21 | We continue to devote resources and incur costs in developing our international presence , as we believe this is essential for the realisation of our medium term business potential . |
| 22 | In developing our simple model , we shall assume that the demand for labour ( D L ) , which we shall define here as the number of jobs being offered by all firms in the economy , depends directly on the rate of national income ( Y ) and inversely on real labour costs ( RLC ) . |
| 23 | The next stage in developing our simple model is to identify the main determinant of the unemployment percentage ( U ) . |
| 24 | He appeared unrepentant and impassioned in favour of us developing our nuclear muscle — for defence . |
| 25 | And finally , and I ca n't emphasize this strongly enough , in developing our open accounting product we developed a totally new application . |
| 26 | As part of the ongoing process of developing our corporate identity we have recently introduced a new logo , new mastheads and letterheads and improved the quality and presentation of our publications and documentation . |
| 27 | Is he aware of the part played by the humanities in preserving and developing our national heritage ? |
| 28 | President , this report is the basis for developing our own action programme to improve health and safety standards at the workplace . |
| 29 | Although PRO wo n't confirm that it paid some $600,000 for the suite ( UX No 406 ) , the decision to plump for 88open 's testing technology was thought to be purely financial : ‘ we could n't afford to spend that kind of money developing our own alternative , so we bought in . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We are intending to expand our share both under the Harrison 's brand and through developing our own label business ’ . |