Example sentences of "[to-vb] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases where clients are reluctant to accept our standard letter , and for further advice generally , reference should be made to Corporate Financial Services Unit . |
| 2 | In cases where clients are reluctant to accept our standard letter , and for further advice generally , reference should be made to Corporate Financial Services Unit . |
| 3 | More than any others in the alliance , we have stated our willingness to host and to accept our nuclear responsibilities during the years that such forces have been present in Europe . |
| 4 | But if we go on refusing to accept our true age and try instead to remain at a stage of life to which we no longer properly belong , then looking younger than our years is a false statement . |
| 5 | ‘ we want to encourage our young people wherever possible to be heterosexual ... |
| 6 | Would I be right in thinking that there really are people with ‘ green fingers ’ and should we be doing more to encourage our younger generation to take an active interest in the garden ? |
| 7 | Quite often we have to encourage our younger executives to take more risks because their natural reaction , particularly if they qualified as accountants , is to be conservative . ’ |
| 8 | Not only do these pictures help to consolidate our general knowledge of glass-making processes , but they also reveal some new and important evidence on the ways in which specific types of glass wares were produced . |
| 9 | Accusations against his criminality and bestiality are related to the desire to purify our own culture and civilisation . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , as we have been at pains to argue , to do so would be only to impose our own interpretation of reality on the reader . |
| 11 | It is especially so when we try to impose our twentieth-century interpretation upon a word which once conveyed a subtly , or dramatically , different meaning in the past . |
| 12 | In the same way , the electronic spectra of molecules can give information about their electronic structures , and have helped to establish our present understanding of chemical bonding in molecules . |
| 13 | The Central Council of Physical Recreation helped to establish our first course in 1955 with an external examiner from the physical education profession joining internal adjudicators to ensure compatibility with nationally accepted standards at the qualifying examination . |
| 14 | The argument runs something like this , whether in the territories that were once Yugoslavia or the islands that will one day no longer be the United Kingdom : since the state mainly belongs to them , we others are excluded , and therefore want to seek to establish our own state . |
| 15 | As this 12-note harmony can not be discussed through the rules of conventional harmony , we have to discover our own methods . |
| 16 | By sunrise , one or two members of the family , having slept on it , start to think , ‘ but I wanted to show ’ , or ‘ 1 wanted to work our new dog ’ and on reading the pup 's ancestry find no track record for either . |
| 17 | Still the point was well made , I mean not sounding like you can sort of freeze an article to , not compromise the sort of committee , I mean , it is , dead if you give it away and you would n't consider pressure groups , they 'll pick up their report and their copies anywhere , and take bits out and quote you , I mean , I mean I know I 'm in this , I like to distort , like them to know our official disposition before it 's dead . |
| 18 | To know our ultimate destination ? |
| 19 | Lucky to have parents who did n't throw up their hands in horror and carry on about unmarried mothers , being too young to know our own minds , etc . |
| 20 | To retrieve our wooden bowls , two other tree-like structures are necessary : an index to the database allowing us to find all wooden objects quickly without checking every one , and a thesaurus which remembers that ‘ beech ’ , ‘ mahogany ’ and so on are all forms of wood . |
| 21 | My own ruse was to ‘ swap ’ credit cards with an equally debt-ridden friend ; for three months we had to travel halfway across London to retrieve our own card and ask ‘ permission ’ before making a purchase ! |
| 22 | Erm , and so too our body has got stuck on our soul erm but we can shed it again erm to find our inner self . |
| 23 | So it is that the fetish of masculinity is fashioned in men-only milieus — we look to footballers , boxers , soldiers and miners to find our real men . |
| 24 | And in turn we can shed the soul to find our true self with the mind . |
| 25 | We have not been … picked out … simply to be abandoned … set loose to find our own way … |
| 26 | And we , the ones who kept the dream alive all these years , made their beloved Party possible , are told to find our own way home . ’ |
| 27 | Europe should not try to mimic either Japan or the USA : instead we have to find our own path to successful modernisation . |
| 28 | … We 've jilted them and eliminated them and we 've got to find our own solutions for our own peculiar moral problems … |
| 29 | Each of us has to find our own truth and our own self in relation to the world ; all you can do is to remain true to yourself and your chosen path . |
| 30 | Obviously this does not signify that we have resolved our specific problem of " being women " nor that militancy can be the panacea which allows us to find our own identity . |