Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course we all like to get on with people at work , but our relationships are based on our skills , our expertise or our functional roles , not on friendship . |
| 2 | Today , using our standard Components and techniques , we can work to your plans or our own designs , to produce the most attractive and economical structures . |
| 3 | If we Christians set our own judgement or our inherited traditions above the Old and New Testament scriptures we part company with the Lord and the apostles , and cut ourselves off from our one source of knowledge of God . |
| 4 | Although the answer he gave was perfectly correct , neither his reply or our accompanying diagram make absolutely clear the importance of glass thickness from a safety point of view . |
| 5 | It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility . |
| 6 | ‘ Reality itself is an illusion that our nervous system puts together for us . |
| 7 | ‘ It is also nearer the coast than our previous activities so offers different constraints of beaches , wildlife and vessel traffic . |
| 8 | This special five-year chart shows a more balanced result than our two-month version ( see page 67 ) ; here longer term , established titles mix it with the ‘ Big Names ’ . |
| 9 | Another indication that our medieval forebears had very different standards from ours for recording the lapse of time is revealed by the way in which they dated their letters . |
| 10 | FOLLOWING the massive increase in the popularity of rugby union as a result of the World Cup , and the demands that our top players now endure , surely it is time for British rugby union to go professional . |
| 11 | If it held the shares intact it would suffer the same disadvantage that our ordinary investor encountered . |
| 12 | Furthermore , a constant emphasis on development in old age may be at variance with both our intellectual and our emotional response to decay and death . |
| 13 | I watch what Emilio and our 10-year-old son Nayib eat , too . |
| 14 | Right recollection : developing our awareness and concentration until our unruly nature is firmly under control . |
| 15 | Neil for two congresses I 've come here and I spoke to your predecessor about team working and the team working concept and I told th your predecessor that the steel union was about to takeover our craftsmen and our general workers . |
| 16 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 17 | By Boris Johnson in Brussels and Our Foreign Staff |
| 18 | That shows the side of the health service that the hon. Lady is not so keen to talk about — our investment in the future and our effective use of facilities and resources . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend is right to say that we live in an increasingly competitive environment and that much in the social action programme would damage that competitiveness within the European Community — to the interests of the Japanese , the United States and our other competitors . |
| 20 | Will the Government now say that we shall initiate urgent discussions with both the United States and our European partners to isolate Burma — . |
| 21 | The discrepancy with this latter study and our present results can not easily be explained . |
| 22 | In the U S we continued with our expansion by opening sixteen shops and our bridal wear in America was a market leader . |
| 23 | A tri- national research network is being set up to study measures of the quality of life , which includes Queen Mary and Westfield College and our collaborating centre in France ( INSERM CJF 88-12 ) . |
| 24 | It was the place where we had to display our knobbly knees and pimply backs , our sometimes not very clean underwear and our sweaty socks . |
| 25 | Is the Minister aware that feeling within the industry and the related sales industry is that if the VAT gap between this country and Ireland and between this country and France is not narrowed significantly we could lose a considerable part of our breeding industry and our entire sales industry , which are the most prestigious in the world ? |
| 26 | We have benefited from our industry and our rapid transport . |
| 27 | And indeed , it was then that I felt a new resolve not to be daunted in respect to the one professional task I have entrusted myself with on this trip ; that is to say , regarding Miss Kenton and our present staffing problems , But that was this morning . |
| 28 | My heart kept jumping as I read it , remembering Dana and our many days and nights together . |
| 29 | Keegan , who ten days ago was boss of an apparently invincible Geordie side , said : ‘ I know what people are thinking , but the only difference between our defeat at Leicester on Saturday and our early season results was that we gave away a silly goal . ’ |
| 30 | It 's no good blaming the chef if our own broth tastes disgusting , or is simply bland and boring — because we not only chose the recipe , but stirred in each ingredient with our own hands ! |