Example sentences of "[be] [prep] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place he draws our attention to the fact that not all our desires are for our own future states of affairs , desires can be impersonal . |
| 2 | We need to be certain that the revelation stems from God ; and we can not be as certain of this as we are of our reason-based knowledge of the particular truth in question . |
| 3 | The mink has had a chequered relationship with us , but we must remember that the changes are of our own making . |
| 4 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're in our sixth year of drought , ’ said farmer Joe van Gundy . |
| 6 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |
| 7 | The more in touch we are with our own life experience , the greater chance we will have of listening to God screaming his love for us in the ordinary events of our lives . |
| 8 | The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year . |
| 9 | We 'd been in our first house for just over five years , and I 'd served my d-i-y apprenticeship then , improving slightly as each room was restored and decorated . |
| 10 | We want to make the most of our membership , and create the sort of institutions and rules which we believe are in our best interests . |
| 11 | We are in our fifth year as the now Interim Licensing Authority for Invitro-Fertilisation and Human Embryology . |
| 12 | However , it is important that alarm calls have been requested from and agreed with the other person when we are in our right minds . |
| 13 | I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties . |
| 14 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 15 | Roger : Their main route will be through our local offices , particularly through Jobplan Workshops . |
| 16 | If this involves going back to first principles , then however removed they may be from our present experience , we have a responsibility to go back . |
| 17 | I was left in bed trying not to show how scared I was — shivering and wondering how long it would be before our own house caught fire , as from my window I could see the flames from the burning laundry , less than three hundred yards away . |
| 18 | Erm , so that 's going to be before our next meeting is n't it ? |
| 19 | It might be in our best interests to amalgamate . ’ |
| 20 | Not like it used to be in our young day . ’ |
| 21 | I feel a cup win this season but what I , d like to know is what does anybody think the score will be in our first game . |
| 22 | In short , restoring ordinary people as part of the we who run things , rather than the them for obstacles to be regulated , managed , I fear even duped and certainly simply left out , and the chief place to focus our search for pragmatic coalitions and cooperative democracy must be in our local communities . |
| 23 | Neighbour Maureen Clark agreed : ‘ They might as well be in our back gardens . |
| 24 | So although the gamma ray background tells us that there can be no more than 300 primordial black holes per cubic light-year on average , it tells us nothing about how common they might be in our own galaxy . |
| 25 | At less than half that age , Mary declared , in her act , ‘ the full administration and ruling to be in our own hands ’ . |
| 26 | Where would we be without our dedicated Chairman of our Training , Publicity , Finance and Membership Services Sub-Committees , our hardworking Treasurer , our National Development Officer , who is employed part-time , and our full-time Secretary ? |
| 27 | My proposition , I assure you , would be to our mutual benefit . ’ |
| 28 | It 's a good plan which would be to our mutual advantage . |
| 29 | To form one good mixed practice would be to our mutual advantage . |
| 30 | You 'll be on our bloody phone line if you do n't move your ass |