Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] our [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would Chloe be prepared to pose with our new toys in glossy American mags ? |
| 2 | When we feel lack of status it is easy to cling to our hard luck stories about how totally powerless we are to change the things we 'd like to change . |
| 3 | Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples . |
| 4 | Yeah , he said we 're not supposed to go on our own ! |
| 5 | Aragorn sings his song of Beren and Lúthien some fifty pages earlier with a certain reluctance , explaining that it is ‘ in the mode that is called ann-thennath among the Elves , but is hard to render in our Common Speech , and this is but a rough echo of it ’ . |
| 6 | In his An Inquiry into the Causes of the Progressive Depreciation of Agricultural Labour in Modern Times ( 1820 ) and A Statement of the Consequences Likely to Ensue from our Growing Excess of Population ( 1830 ) Barton argued that only where land was cheap and plentiful would economic growth be maximized and accordingly favoured emigration schemes and colonization of Canada . |
| 7 | However , all this was in the future and hard to visualise on our first visit . |
| 8 | You bring us news of what the public prints Think fit to say upon our royal performance ? |
| 9 | You are welcome to browse in our main showroom , and select any number of designs from our own ‘ PRINT TO ORDER ’ fabrics and silks , and from other major manufacturers . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it is useful to distinguish between our various means of correlation and I make no apology for suggesting another term , just to draw attention to its usefulness as a method . |
| 11 | With reduced cow numbers ( courtesy of quotas ) and some investment in fencing and sheep handling , I hope we shall be able to cope with our reduced labour force especially as Chrissie is out teaching more and more . |
| 12 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
| 13 | We seem increasingly able to talk about sex , but wholly unable to talk about our own ageing and our feelings about it . |
| 14 | I hope er that you will be able to choose from our wide range of crackers and favours , just what you want to enhance your special day . |
| 15 | One afternoon we went up to Croydon St. in Karori to look at our old house . |
| 16 | We made no mention of Oswald or his murder ; he seemed totally oblivious of that , being more concerned to hear about our private conversation with Lord d'Aubigny . |
| 17 | We can be in danger of saying or feeling that bereavement is something that happens to everyone else , and that ‘ those people ’ need support , but we are perfectly able to manage on our own . |
| 18 | Then there are those we can all remember from our own schooldays who just ca n't teach at all , though we are unable to recall from our own experience any example of the stratagem reported by one of our informants . |
| 19 | Destroy them and we will impoverish future generations simply because we are unable to live within our environmental means . ’ |
| 20 | The civil servants ensured that our drafts were the ones that eventually went into the Statutes , so we were able to return to our second Report . |
| 21 | This knowledge ensures they start every letter with ‘ I know you must be swamped by requests to open bizzarres [ sic ] like these but — ’ and ‘ Your secretary assures us that you are unable to speak at our annual dinner in John O'Groats but — ’ and that 's about as far as understanding goes . |
| 22 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 23 | In education we are overly inclined to rely on our own tradition and intuition and to overstate the uniqueness of our particular circumstances ( think of the thousands of teachers with their own stock of test questions in their drawer ) . |
| 24 | We were obliged to interpret from our native tongue into the language concerned and everything was repeated in English , Russian and French . |
| 25 | The louvres will come ready to install on our superb mono-control headrail systems , ( which can also be colour-keyed if required ) . |
| 26 | We have our analogue of REPRODUCTION , which , like DEVELOPMENT , we can wrap up in another small computer program , ready to embed in our big program called EVOLUTION . |