Example sentences of "[adj] of our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , our weekly bill for provisions alone came to 25 shillings , or half of our total income . |
| 2 | Over half of our total investment of more than £350 million next year will be spent on refurbishment of our sewers and sewage treatment works — the vast majority of this investment being made outside the London area . |
| 3 | Naphtha at that time represented half of our total costs , and was bought by central purchasing in London . |
| 4 | More than half of our first intake acknowledged that they would have preferred a traditional course , having the study of literature as its principal component . |
| 5 | Natural gas , which is an ecologically acceptable hydrocarbon fuel , now represents more than half of our reserve base . |
| 6 | Yet English is not the native language for almost half of our overseas visitors . |
| 7 | Interestingly , 12 of our 13 patients with AA showed a remarkable improvement in bowel function after receiving total parenteral nutrition treatment . |
| 8 | We will supply and buy back foreign currency and Thomas Cook US dollar and sterling travellers cheques FREE of our normal commission charges ; and you will be offered a FREE eurocheque card . |
| 9 | So these two nutritional factors go together in societies free of our Western ailments — and also in the F-Plan diet . |
| 10 | For those holidays abroad , we will sell you foreign currency , and buy back what you do n't spend , FREE of our usual commission charges . |
| 11 | Third World communities who remain free of our degenerative diseases have been found to live on diets which contain a much higher percentage of carbohydrate than ours — carbohydrate obtained from cereals which have not been stripped of their dietary fibre , fibre-rich vegetables ( potatoes and other root vegetables ) , legumes and fruits . |
| 12 | For instance , she was possessive of our eldest son and I was n't allowed to go near him . |
| 13 | The question arises whether some of our married quarters may be sold to housing associations who will give priority to service men . |
| 14 | The extent to which the Sussex population is involved in these movements is unknown , but at least some of our wintering birds move overland , and parties have been reported over Kingley Vale , Eartham , and West Chiltington recently , usually in spring . |
| 15 | Paula Kahn , chairman and chief executive of Longman Group , commented that it had been a good year for Longman ‘ despite the impact of the recession in some of our key markets around the world , particularly our ELT markets in Europe ’ . |
| 16 | There were strong performances in some of our key business sectors , although theses were offset by poor results elsewhere . |
| 17 | My wife and I are looking forward to contact from your readers and eventually meeting some of our diving cousins from the ‘ Motherland ’ . |
| 18 | This , through John Gibson , we certainly received , and foremost among helpers were some of our newest members , whom it was a joy to have with us . |
| 19 | When I 've written to you in the past , it 's usually been to tell you about the developments of some of our long term programmes . |
| 20 | It would be impossible not to enjoy staying at the Venus — they 're some of our nicest apartments in Ibiza . |
| 21 | The interest rate is not as high as that on some of our other schemes , but you only need £1 to open the account and you can withdraw your money quickly . |
| 22 | Although our sense of smell does not compare as favourably as some of our other senses , it allows us to detect tiny traces of a very wide range of complex chemicals . |
| 23 | The only occasions on which you will have to pay anything are if you take advantage of some of our other services linked to the Current Account , which are subject to their own costs . |
| 24 | ‘ We pass on knowledge to our trading partners , telling them what we see to be the benefits , and what some of our other customers have found to be the benefits . |
| 25 | Well , we 're all looking at it at the moment of , of course , but some of our first impressions are that for example on global warming , there 's no commitment to , to a carbon taxation . |
| 26 | During the summer why not try some of our new Vintage Selection wines ? |
| 27 | Is my hon. Friend aware that some of our European partners , with a very high standard of health care , are offering to perform operations for which there is a demand in this country — such as hip replacement — at competitive prices ? |
| 28 | Also — unlike some of our European partners — we have implemented that dimension too ; 19 out of the 33 measures in the social action programme have been agreed . |
| 29 | We do not believe that such operations can be shown to meet our public transport target safety level , and it may be that some of our European colleagues do not consider such operations to be public transport , or do not apply the same target level of safety to such operations . |
| 30 | I would only add that although the behaviour of some of our major construction companies is a little short of criminal in some cases , no amount of legislation will change things unless subcontractors are prepared to band together and take a much firmer stance against some of their tactics ( they could start by employing members of the Institute perhaps ) . |