Example sentences of "[adv] to our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The modern popularity of burger bars , coated nuggets , and ready-made stir-fry mixes owes much to our growing repugnance at the bleeding carcases , the veins , the sinews , which to our grandparents were an everyday sight . |
| 2 | This is in line with the obvious policy , not just of the ruling group , but I suspect of the council as a whole that we know that sooner or later courtesy of this government , whether we like it or not we are going to have to get down to our standard spending assessment . |
| 3 | ‘ I can only think it 's down to our Gabbichi cardigans , ’ he laughs . |
| 4 | His voice was golden , too , a melodious baritone that carried effortlessly down to our open floater . |
| 5 | The flood of diverse human experience which it brings down to our own life and time is in no sense or degree foreign to us , but has become the native experience of men of our own race and culture . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the attitudes which Wordsworth adopted towards industrialization were successfully transmitted to the later nineteenth century , and ultimately down to our own day , where they have sometimes been incorporated into the law of the land . |
| 7 | Yet it , too , was a registration of the triumph of European culture ; down to our own day the political life of the world has increasingly been debated in the terms forged by European history and in a European idiom . |
| 8 | Three times as many people had been packed into the old confines as could prudently be housed there , even by the low standards of a hundred years ago , and the slums of Nottingham have remained a byword down to our own day . |
| 9 | Sarcasm and theoretical criticism of these in due course preyed on FitzRoy 's mind , and in 1865 he killed himself ; after an intermission , and despite ‘ scientific ’ criticism of the empiricism of it all , the weather forecasts were resumed , perhaps with slowly increasing accuracy down to our own day . |
| 10 | Accordingly , courses range over syntactic and phonological structure , and both temporal and spatial variation , embracing all the major stages of the language , from its Anglo-Saxon origins down to our own times . |
| 11 | His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism . |
| 12 | Soon we were down to our last lumps of coal . |
| 13 | We 're down to our last tumbler … |
| 14 | Some of the school 's achievements were then listed followed by the invitation ‘ Want to know more ? … then come along to our Annual Meeting for Parents on Tuesday 5 July . ’ |
| 15 | As neither of us knew anything about it we tried to glean as much information on the technical side of sailing as possible and build it in to our globe-trotting plans . |
| 16 | You fly to Europe , put the boot in to our top people , get them looking , then fly back here . |
| 17 | The final examination of the year was early in December at the elegant Victoria Rooms in Clifton , Bristol , when a Promotion Evening was held to publicise the Institute not only to our own profession but to the business community in Bristol . |
| 18 | A programme which will be of interest not only to our 1,400 pilgrims of ‘ 92 but also to all members of the Diocese . |
| 19 | As we move towards the next century , voluntary organisations will need to develop further their contribution not only to our national life , but also to the international community . |
| 20 | Early in 1981 , our liaison with the French Customs was now well established and we often worked together to our mutual advantage . |
| 21 | They could n't put it down , of course — from our revelations of exalted David Mellor 's earthy follies , our gem new £ million Diamond Bingo , through to our great 14-page sporting Fanzine . |
| 22 | Heathrow was very busy as usual but it helped not having our luggage to carry as it was booked right through to our final destination . |
| 23 | The cup was handed over to our regional director , Mike Mann by safety director , Brian Cowie at a special presentation attended by all staff . |
| 24 | And now for something completely different we go over to our roving reporter in the North East of England who is interviewing a member of The Marauders . |
| 25 | It would seem so after we received a phone call from a North Wales resident who was bringing some American pals over to our fair city to sample some entertaining nights out in Liverpool . |
| 26 | I do n't imp intend to preach to the converted but what I do intend to say to anyone in this hall that 's either indifferent or complacent or just too idle to do anything than let this motion drift by them , that if we do n't get together on this issue to get the message over to our national officers and in turn the T U C , that if we do n't stand and fight for the right to uphold the basic principles of what I believe to be trade unionism , that is the right to withdraw labour , the right to protect our brothers and sisters from oppressive employers , the right to command decent conditions and fair pay without fair reprisal . |
| 27 | On one such incident I was in command of Venturous patrolling in the Straits of Dover at the end of a very busy Bank Holiday , during which we had followed a suspect yacht from just outside Calais , and handed her over to our special unit in Dover . |
| 28 | It clearly implies a world order in which the prime virtue is obedience , not a world order that 's exactly to our twentieth century democratic taste , but then after all not a world order altogether to Milton 's taste , as we can remind ourselves by thinking of his plea for unlicensed printing the Areopagitica . |
| 29 | It was of course pure bluff , and rank-pulling on a vulgar scale , but from then on the crew was to become almost irritatingly attentive to our safety , if not to our general well-being . |
| 30 | The BPIF 's director of employment affairs Andy Brown said : ‘ We have had no indication that the GPMU is prepared to settle at anything close to our final offer . ’ |