Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed one of the great worries that I have about life in general is the lack of growth which so may of our admirable people , particularly those who have not achieved educational qualifications , actually manage during their working lives . |
| 2 | We held hands all the way through Live Aid , having not spoken to each other for a week , and then rushed off to the Post Office as soon as we could with our three pounds . |
| 3 | That means that the irrelevant suggestions being made by the European Commission for mandatory information for and consultation with employees would bear much more heavily on British business than it would on our major competitors . |
| 4 | Erm , I think these refugees are likely to include the most enterprising , the best trained and so on , they 'll be a grave loss to the Soviet economy , erm , but I think they 're a potential gain to us and er , I do n't think that , I think therefore we should make arrangements to try and absorb them if we can and , and let them contribute as they undoubtedly will to our own economies . |
| 5 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 6 | There is much to do , in the inter-connected aspects of caring for human beings , animals and the environment , and we all have the opportunity to do what we can in our own situations . |
| 7 | Having achieved this , we can in our concluding section point to some of the strengths and weaknesses of these explanations and the various prescriptions which flow from them . |