Example sentences of "[noun] on our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants to see their future on our political agenda . |
| 2 | By contrast there were lots of walkers on our next top which beckoned beyond the shallow , peaty col that separates the two hills . |
| 3 | Yet here is a dark continent on our own doorstep , crying out for missionary endeavour . |
| 4 | If you have a special request please advise your Travel Agent at the time of booking and ensure this is either correctly noted by the Agent on our computerised Reservations system or given to our Telephone Reservations department as appropriate . |
| 5 | It 's a sad indictment on our present housing chairman , when asked in committee about the changing roles of housing associations , he said , it 's a bitter pill to swallow . |
| 6 | No one can condemn the murder of a child in Warrington and be equivocal about a similar attempt on our own streets . |
| 7 | ‘ The change will have little immediate and obvious effect on our future plans . |
| 8 | It 's probably the single most significant invention of the industrial age , in terms of its effect on our everyday lives . |
| 9 | In the UK , preferential tax treatment for imported wine has had a serious adverse effect on our domestic spirits industry . |
| 10 | We have similar difficulties when we look at such aspects as soul and intelligence : these have a profound effect on our daily existence , yet we have problems whenever we try to quantify them . |
| 11 | I have no difficulty in accepting certain supposedly key Freudian notions , such as the existence of the unconscious mind and its effect on our daily living , and the self-contradictory and self-defeating quality of much human behaviour , but these are far from being original discoveries . |
| 12 | Early in the year , it had become apparent that the combination of recession and low growth was having a punishing effect on our downstream businesses and that we could no longer continue investing at our previously high levels . |
| 13 | The effect on our own accounts is that we now show all the mainstream activities of the Council together , and they are then separated out from the entries for all the other funds , appeals , and trust funds and so on . |
| 14 | Yes , well the economic effect on our own country , well when I say under , er Europe , er , with this proposal that er , we have to open up our markets er for the benefit of the Soviet , er because , that is going to cost er , what they 're , what they 're asking for , not only in Soviet but also across Eastern Europe is that the agricultural market , the steel , and the textile market , all the most sensitive areas , should be opened up to them , and that 's going to shed a , a great increase in unemployment er within the , within the common market . |
| 15 | Research evidence shows that , whilst human adults vary greatly in their intellectual curiosity and their levels of mental energy , most of us learn by the unconscious process of internalizing knowledge , skills or attitudes that have a more-or-less permanent effect on our subsequent behaviour . |
| 16 | This new self-awareness , which the contemplation of alien cultures and institutions promotes , throws light on our own past as well as present . |
| 17 | All of us have different levels of tolerance to the demands on our mental energy . |
| 18 | Does n't it recall the time when the church taught that our Earth was the centre of the universe , and the stars just little pinpricks of light set in the sky for our delight ( or , even more absurdly presumptuous , that the stars go out of their way to exert astrological influences on our little lives ) ? |
| 19 | You can phone Sue on our special helplines . |
| 20 | Gravity gets weaker the farther you are from the star , so the gravitational force on our intrepid astronaut 's feet would always be greater than the force on his head . |
| 21 | And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial , devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for . |
| 22 | With such a varied and profound background in such sensitive areas , his views can only be described as useful to many of us , and of intense interest to all of us , as we struggle to keep abreast of complex daily developments which appear remote , but frequently have a direct influence on our daily lives . |
| 23 | That has not prevented them exercising a great influence on our cultural development . |
| 24 | Over the winter , since the work on our current project , Glenburrell bridge , is out of doors , our activities have been reduced drastically . |
| 25 | We welcome the wider scope now open to married women of serving on town councils , and hope in the near future that many of our women will have the opportunity of doing useful work on our local health committees . |
| 26 | ‘ The sale means we shall be able to carry out essential work on our original buildings which form the centrepiece of the college and are part of the national heritage . ’ |
| 27 | For a long time I was afraid that he had survived the raids of the Khabiris on our last outposts in the north ; but an infantry captain who had known him managed to make his way back to the Southern Capital and contacted my steward . |
| 28 | But what has saddened me especially was the repeated rumour which I and some friends heard in the 1950s and early 1960s : that Leslie 's plane had been brought down not by the storms nor by enemy action , but by human error on our own side . |
| 29 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 30 | We were silly to take so much sun on our first day , but it was just too nice to go in . ’ |