Example sentences of "[be] in our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're in our sixth year of drought , ’ said farmer Joe van Gundy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We are in our fifth year as the now Interim Licensing Authority for Invitro-Fertilisation and Human Embryology . |
| 6 | However , it is important that alarm calls have been requested from and agreed with the other person when we are in our right minds . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It might be in our best interests to amalgamate . ’ |
| 10 | Not like it used to be in our young day . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Neighbour Maureen Clark agreed : ‘ They might as well be in our back gardens . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At less than half that age , Mary declared , in her act , ‘ the full administration and ruling to be in our own hands ’ . |
| 16 | Both those ideas now said were in our future targets . |
| 17 | Five of our seven riders this season were in our championship-winning side . ’ |
| 18 | I remember how helpful you were in our own cases . ’ |
| 19 | It was n't until we were in our own ship that Mala asked . |
| 20 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 21 | Travellers and officials looked weary , and we perhaps more than most : we were in our sixth hour of confusion at the border . |
| 22 | " Yes , my child , she 's in our living quarters , just back there . |
| 23 | but all of which are gone and we 've replaced them with these since many , you know , quite a few years ago , er we bought one utility suite from an engineer who was going to Rhodesia and that 's in our second bedroom still it 's , well the bed is but the |
| 24 | Stars & Stripes now shares a first-place tie with Kanza , America 's sister ship , with four victories apiece in the defenders ' semi-final , and Connor said : ‘ We have to beat America once more to assure that destiny 's in our own hands , but we 're going to keep our feet on the ground . ’ |
| 25 | It 's in our own hands now . |
| 26 | The good thing is our destiny 's in our own hands . |
| 27 | ‘ The good thing is our destiny 's in our own hands , ’ said Keegan . |
| 28 | Rather they alert us to just how powerful female potency really is in our collective psyches , despite , and even because of , its long repression . |
| 29 | It is in our primary schools that potential above the commonplace is likely to be first identified . |
| 30 | It is in our primary schools that such potential can be tended or crushed . |