Example sentences of "[noun pl] in our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Manuel and I sat drinking our rum punch outside the tavern in the midday sun , patting Sombro and discussing dogs as pets in our respective homelands , we both knew Sombro 's manhood would remain intact and that , as long as he was able to mooch down to the village , he would do so . |
| 2 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 3 | To put it another way , we are not foreigners in our own language , we are at home in it . |
| 4 | I want to connect this up with something I said earlier : ‘ We are not foreigners in our own language ; we are at home in it . ’ |
| 5 | Will we all have long-term careers within one company , or will more of us become self-employed , maybe operating on a free-lance basis from electronic offices in our own homes ? |
| 6 | I am worried by the enthusiasm of some of my constituents for the Bengal tiger and rare species in various parts of the world , while tending to disregard animals in our local habitats . |
| 7 | We need to learn and understand how he composes his rage , so we can harness similar potencies in our own writing . |
| 8 | Describing the deal as ‘ a highly significant step in European retailing ’ , the chairman of Kingfisher , Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy said : ‘ Our merger will create a business with the muscle to compete on a European basis as well as enhancing growth opportunities in our domestic markets . ’ |
| 9 | I suppose we 're nutters in our own way . ’ |
| 10 | We had first hung the avant-garde pictures in our main room , but as the man in charge of our building , and a local policeman , sometimes called on us , my wife and I decided to hang the pictures in the bedroom and put the icons in the living room . |
| 11 | But we do ourselves no service if we neglect to ask fundamental , difficult questions about our understanding of some of the key issues , processes and terms involved ; if we ignore contradictions in our underlying discourses ; if we fail to grapple with the limitations of our assumptions about pedagogy and how subjects and subjectivities are formed ; and if we fail to notice how economic , political and cultural differentiations are undermining older fixities around the ethnic , class and political identities of the minority communities . |
| 12 | NORTHERN Echo promotions executive Ian Trotter presents an answerphone ( above ) to S.A. Miller , of Darlington , who was one of four prize winners in our British Telecom competition . |
| 13 | We did n't have enough ocean-going vessels in our own tanker fleet . |
| 14 | But suicide has been shown to have important roles in our immune system . |
| 15 | Apart from two periods apart from the beginning of the fifteenth century , and I think in certain respects in our own day , and for the rest of the time we were dass land ohne muziek the land without music , I fear . |
| 16 | The conclusions we characteristically reach about this were learned in childhood when we needed to make sense of the many confusing and contradictory recordings in our three ego-states . |
| 17 | The typefaces in our new design are those on this page : a classic cut of Baskerville for the main body of text , and Franklin Gothic for headlines ( in most parts of the paper ) . |
| 18 | New products currently under development and in clinical trials in our biomedical business offer exciting potential for future growth . |
| 19 | Certain countries in our 1975–76 survey , Sierra Leone , Tanzania and Zambia , and others outside it such as Ethiopia and Somalia , are seeking to raise their minimum age of entry into primary schools . |
| 20 | Many of us , however , do not realise that we unwittingly induce Pavlovian-type responses in our own dogs by establishing a rigid routine for feeding . |
| 21 | Now my argument in the present chapter , which grounds certain duties in our natural responses to each other , and in those towards infants and animals as well ( instinctive responses that provide the initial springboard for language itself ) lends support to Rollin 's development of contractualism . |
| 22 | Gaps in our existing knowledge will be highlighted . |
| 23 | In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt . |
| 24 | We take a look at the latest perming techniques and show you how to care for your curls in our brilliant perm feature . |
| 25 | The most critical one in some ways is a change in the structure of our lower jaw , so instead of having a lot of bones in our lower jaw we have just a single bone in our lower jaw , the dentory , which articulates with a bone called the scremosal , whereas in reptiles the quadrate and articular for the articulation and those bones have now got stuck into our inner ear and do some stuff about conducting sound impulses . |
| 26 | Bill was seldom able to put together a consistent run of appearances in our 2nd Division seasons 1921–25 but , when he did play , his graft and pluck were always appreciated by our fans and the press of the time because Palace continually struggled in Division Two and the hard-working , tenacious attitude which Bill always showed was a valuable asset against powerful and more skilled opponents . |
| 27 | David became a regular member of Palace 's 2nd Division side during 1965–66 and in three seasons rarely missed a match , although a mid-season injury at Millwall kept his appearances in our 1968–69 promotion team down to thirty . |
| 28 | There is nothing wrong with ensuring that a benefiting nation spends its gift vouchers in our national shops . |
| 29 | In dedicating our book to six grandmothers in our own families , we mark the special inspiration which each in different ways has given us . |
| 30 | As already explained , subject to there being no further significant deterioration in trading conditions , once the Hanley factory is closed there will be no further reductions in our permanent manufacturing capacity . |