Example sentences of "[pron] [be] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm our favourite guard detail commander , right now . ’ |
| 2 | Certainly in the work that the Greater York er authorities did in preparing their proposals over the past er four or five years , er we have worked fairly closely with what was then the Yorkshire Water Authority and National Rivers Authorities on the questions of drainage erm and so forth which are our major problems around York . |
| 3 | Diodorus ' sources were less interested in it than in Sicily , as was Diodorus himself : he gives the Roman consuls and even some episodes of Roman history like the Decemvirate , but does not help much with the Greek cities which are our present concern . |
| 4 | Nor are evolutionary processes progressive or purposive ; the primitive single-celled creatures which were our early forebears were not possessed of a burning imperative , or driven by a mystic higher force , to evolve into sentient humans . |
| 5 | We walked through the gloomy , echoing streets to the pub , past turdy parks , past the Victorian school with outside toilets , past the numerous bomb-sites which were our true playgrounds and sexual schools , and past the neat gardens and scores of front rooms containing familiar strangers and televisions shining like dying lights . |
| 6 | This figure will be inflated by those who have attended more than once on a Sunday , but , provided that church-going habits do not change , you will still have an accurate trend measure over a number of years , which is our primary interest . |
| 7 | We turn now to a type of power that is more specifically an attribute of large companies , and which is our central concern . |
| 8 | In the last three years we have opened three brand new laboratories : at Colchester , serving rigid packaging and tubes ; at Bristol , with a new complex for flexible packaging scientists ; and at Muscatine , Iowa , which is our largest plastic tubes plant . |
| 9 | Some say that worship means the giving of our lives to Christ , presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice to God which is our spiritual worship ( Romans 12:1 ) , and that expressing praise is relatively unimportant . |
| 10 | That man , okay , singular , who was then each one of us , plural , erm erm , I take it that , that erm one of the things that we could conclude from this entire discussion is that our notion of selfhood erm which is our modern notion of selfhood , deeply bound up with erm personal history , you know , Locke 's erm , what is Locke 's example ? |
| 11 | ‘ We must beware lest unscrupulous people exploit these areas of misunderstanding and divert our attention from the really important task , which is our common defence of the kind of freedoms we hold so dear : the freedoms for which this noble university so proudly stands and for which so many of its sons gave their lives in foreign fields . ’ |
| 12 | It should come as no surprise then , that some of those who see bolting as fundamentally reducing the experience I 've outlined above , and which is our common heritage , should cast around for some solid arguments to counter its spread . |
| 13 | Now unc and for this to be a minimum , its differential with respect to x ( see 1.11 ) must vanish ; i.e. unc which is our original set of Equations ( 2 ) with e = 0 , premultiplied by AT ; it gives m equations for the m unknowns . |
| 14 | So we shall use this at our great banquet which I 'll tell you about in a moment when we go round , which is our next event . |
| 15 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 16 | And they say you have to send in some of your product and then they come round to your stand and if it does n't comply they just take it off your stand which is our whole merchandise really . |
| 17 | As regards care of the neonate , which is our particular concern here , what are important are the criteria whereby resources are allocated . |
| 18 | Erm of which were there were many in those days er , not so many today of course but er er ooh I should say there were probably on Vale which was our nearest sort of shopping area to where we lived , there were probably two or three erm shoe repairers , including , and you could go and buy leather there . |
| 19 | With our Masai translator and guide we lived with them and accepted their hospitality which was our biggest witness to them . |
| 20 | Who are our closest troops ? ’ |
| 21 | When Johnson enquired the cause of the difference , Sir Alexander claimed that there was ‘ more occasion for them in war ’ , but Professor Thomas Gordon ( no relation , Boswell ? ) said , ‘ Because the Germans , who are our great rivals in the manufacture of stockings , are otherwise employed in time of war . ’ |
| 22 | It could not have been written if the " eagles " who are our modern gurus had not shown the path from altitude ; Lecercle calls himself , by contrast , a " centipede " grubbing about among tiny linguistic details , but he is a sensible and humorous centipede where some of the great eagles — the thinkers who have brought about the famous Copernican Revolution of Structuralism and Since — have been impenetrable or extremist . |
| 23 | You are our dear Führer , but for God 's sake keep your hands off , do n't undertake the campaign . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I see you 're our new cabin-boy . |
| 25 | ‘ Here is Mr Bailey 's version : ‘ Oh Marjie , we always read your column Marjie , For Forty years , you 're our favourite Agony Aunt , You 've given thousands good advice , that 's what we want , Oh Marjie , long may your column greet our eyes each waking day , Count your job a task well done , now go out and have some fun . |
| 26 | You 're our lucky charm . ’ |
| 27 | ( seated , has completed 22 years service — could she be our longest serving secretary ? ) |
| 28 | It helps us to know in advance your prize preference should you be our lucky winner . |
| 29 | It helps us to know in advance your prize preference should you be our lucky winner . |
| 30 | Although during the years I worked there I had the opportunity to meet many people , mainly the farmers who were our principal customers , I can honestly say that my job was the most boring and monotonous I could possibly have had . |