Example sentences of "[noun sg] and our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , a constant emphasis on development in old age may be at variance with both our intellectual and our emotional response to decay and death . |
| 2 | That shows the side of the health service that the hon. Lady is not so keen to talk about — our investment in the future and our effective use of facilities and resources . |
| 3 | The discrepancy with this latter study and our present results can not easily be explained . |
| 4 | A tri- national research network is being set up to study measures of the quality of life , which includes Queen Mary and Westfield College and our collaborating centre in France ( INSERM CJF 88-12 ) . |
| 5 | It was the place where we had to display our knobbly knees and pimply backs , our sometimes not very clean underwear and our sweaty socks . |
| 6 | Is the Minister aware that feeling within the industry and the related sales industry is that if the VAT gap between this country and Ireland and between this country and France is not narrowed significantly we could lose a considerable part of our breeding industry and our entire sales industry , which are the most prestigious in the world ? |
| 7 | We have benefited from our industry and our rapid transport . |
| 8 | Upon signing for us he immediately became a pillar of the Palace side and our leading scorer with 12 goals in 1954–55 , as Manager Cyril Spiers sought to introduce younger players to an ageing Palace staff . |
| 9 | And this brings us to the end of our clockwise tour of Thrush Green and our brief meetings with the chief inhabitants . |
| 10 | NAS chief executive Laurie Caple said : ‘ This expenditure is set against money raised in the private sector from sponsorship and our various income generation activities . ’ |
| 11 | In another school , which is er , locally managed , we are I think about the only school in the county who have decided to employ our own caretaker and our own cleaners , and , and in fact the latitude that gives us , has really allowed us to do a lot more in that school , erm with the staff and the staff are happier . |
| 12 | Major development during 1991 will enable the Tour to grow both the sport and our financial foundation in the future . |
| 13 | In spite of this attitude by some of the die-hards , more and more money was being spent on new craft and equipment and our Technical Branch , which hitherto had concentrated on the maintenance on our fleet of small boarding launches , was being geared up to deal with the new cutter fleet . |
| 14 | But we have our own dream and our own task . |
| 15 | We were not inundated with offers for the company from the private sector and our financial advisers doubted whether we could sell the business at all . |
| 16 | Hume and Kant ( 1724–1804 ) are two towering giants of philosophy and our brief indications of their positions on morality — which must tear them from their systems as a whole — may irritate the knowledgeable , but with the space at my disposal and the particular purpose of supplying background to Part Two of this work , the only alternative was to ignore them altogether . |
| 17 | ‘ So it 's down to a combination of continued good Presbyterian attitudes to housekeeping and our taking advantage of the recession to continue with our policy of expansion and growth . ’ |
| 18 | While we have strong reserves to support the pound it is likely Bank of England Governor Robin Leigh Pemberton would advise a Labour Chancellor to combine firm words with firm deeds if support from the Bundesbank and our other exchange rate mechanism partners is to be assured and a drawn-out war of attrition avoided . |
| 19 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 20 | Right , so if we want to be er ninety percent certain about inference that corresponds with ten percent significance level and our critical value there is one point seven zero . |
| 21 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 22 | Nationally Sir Matt Busby would probably qualify especially since Bob Paisley 's retirement from the Liverpool board and our learned friend knows of two 44-year men at Ross County , a team he seems to know well . |
| 23 | In the year we earned city status , our polytechnic becomes a university and our local football team reach the FA Cup final , I have no reason to doubt that City Challenge will signal yet another major success for Sunderland . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I simply told them that you were my wife and that you had taken all our money and our little girl and were running off to London to be with your lover . ’ |
| 25 | Initially we talked of our course and our fellow students , but soon the conversation veered off into more personal matters . |
| 26 | Because I am delighted to report that education standards in Wales have been rising over the last few years following the introduction of the national curriculum and our other reforms . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're picking those businesses where the market opportunity and our competitive position justify an expansion on a global basis . |
| 28 | In the early part of this year I , along with the relevant Group director , visited the majority of Wood Group companies to report on progress and our future plans . |
| 29 | ‘ This bid is a clear indication of our confidence in the potential still offered by the UK Continental Shelf and our continuing commitment to exploring it , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ I see no contradiction between my CND membership and our current policy . ’ |