Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If such stipulations are made for so mundane a practice as motoring , they would seem to be reasonable precautions for protecting our environment for the rest of time from possible damage by man-made creatures . |
| 2 | Government will work in partnership to secure our heritage for the benefit of future generations . |
| 3 | Let me give you the text of a talk I gave to the Bridport Women 's Institute , before the Scandal , and when Julian and I were still developing our blueprint for the world of the future . |
| 4 | Remember , you can at any time exchange our equipment for the latest models as soon as they become available . |
| 5 | Let us consider here just the relationship between the focusing and reasoning components in a system of this general type , and restrict our attention for the moment to the case of one pronoun in a sentence in the absence of any non-anaphoric ambiguity . |
| 6 | Thus , if we restrict our attention for the moment to pupils for whom a statement is made , the proportion ranges across LEAs from less than 1 per cent of the school population to nearly 3 per cent . |
| 7 | In spite of this , we have continued to invest in existing facilities and in extending our range of services in order to strengthen our position for the future . |
| 8 | It undermines our demand for the return of our homes . ’ |
| 9 | If you prefer to select your own meals , rather than follow our suggestion for the day , you will find selections of breakfasts , salads and snacks to choose from , with precise calorie values for each , on pages 99–100 , and main meal recipes at the end of Stage I and each week of Stage II . |
| 10 | ‘ We hereby give our consent for the purposes of Section 57(1) of the Financial Services Act 1986 to the issue of the investment advertisement attached hereto , dated and signed for the purpose of identification ’ . |
| 11 | Two ideas over-large for reconciliation are fronting each other now , and there 'll be no peace until there 's been — no , ’ he checked himself , ‘ I wo n't say a settlement , but at least a temporary losing and winning that shall silence us both until we get our breath for the next bout . |
| 12 | We were n't exactly holding our breath for the arrival of these Lakewood flat-top guitars , but within five minutes of the boxes being opened , the two of them — and one of them in particular — were drawing noises of appreciation from all present . |
| 13 | ‘ It is vital that we maintain our concentration for the entire match . |
| 14 | Last November ; we began our search for The Most Beautiful Hair of the Year in conjunction with Supersoft . |
| 15 | May we reserve our admiration for the qualities people have rather than for what they own . |
| 16 | Until we begin to recognise our responsibility for the current situation , we will not come close to finding a solution that will lead African families to choose to have smaller families . |
| 17 | I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs , and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors , begging our way for the love of God , so that we might be beheaded there … . |
| 18 | We had arrived in Indonesia speaking very little of the language , with 20,000 feet of film stock and what was left of Ringo 's £2,000 , intending to film our search for the Bird of Paradise with the Bugis pirates aboard the schooners which Alfred Wallace himself had sailed in 125 years before us . |
| 19 | I think we still want our songs ( poetry , story , play ) to enable us to get through the day tunefully , to afford some new angle of vision that will ‘ give ’ us the world in a new way , elicit our love for the world again , though our faculties may be tired , though the world may be desolated . |
| 20 | Not only does it ignore the sense in which suffering can be unwitting but it also begs the question in favour of saying , when specific symptoms like struggling or urination occur in animals , that these are properly to be seen as , emotional responses ' ( which covertly elicits our sympathy for the conscious distress of the stricken human parent rather than the symptoms of it observed in the struggling , yet unaware , athlete ) . |
| 21 | Lincolnshire is a flat county , you see , exactly right for aerodromes , and they took our house for the airmen , I suppose . |
| 22 | In Britain 's heyday we provided financial subsidies as well ; but though we have retained our fighting abilities , as was demonstrated by the Falklands Campaign , the decline in our resources relative to the superpowers now limits our influence and inhibits our quest for the greatest possible measure of national independence . |
| 23 | That is the most tangible way to demonstrate our concern for the health service and to continue to improve the service available to everyone in this country . |
| 24 | ‘ I can only express our sympathy for the lady and I will bring this to my manager 's attention . |
| 25 | Also we 've been arguing our claim for the sparsity factor , in other words , the national reduction of one hundred and sixty one million in ninety-four , ninety-five compared to ninety-three , ninety-four for the sparsity factor . |
| 26 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ Artai said , ‘ We have issued our order for the watch to be strengthened . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We finalise our campaign for the opening of the fair at Naxxar . |
| 28 | Please thank our friend for the thought , but I prefer to stay on the ground ’ . |
| 29 | But the amazing thing was that , just after we 'd recorded our bit for the Gardeners ' World programmed , I spotted a couple of butterflies fluttering around the garden . |
| 30 | For it is a condition of Dostoevsky 's art to arouse our longing for the settled and the normal and the beautiful itself . |