Example sentences of "[vb pp] by our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK the water scene has been dominated by our good relationship with South West Water , with whom a sole supplier arrangement is now in place . |
| 2 | The first was used at our meeting on 6 September and was won by our popular member , Mr Syd Breeze , who was thrilled at having won a prize . |
| 3 | But worst of all we were attacked by our own side . |
| 4 | TODAY is roaring ahead with thousands of new readers attracted by our unique mix of hard news , great supplements and bright sports coverage . |
| 5 | Nightlife : Plenty is organised by our local representative . |
| 6 | Our danger is to be beguiled by our own fiction into imagining otherwise . |
| 7 | It may indeed be exaggerated by our traditional dialectic habits of clash and argument , as I have suggested elsewhere in this book , but it does not arise from them . |
| 8 | The information is stored on computer and regularly updated by our own network of river watchers , supplemented by our regular Sunday outings . |
| 9 | These former gang members will be required to go through police training and must comply with all of the laws instituted by our established authorities . |
| 10 | ‘ … the extent of the establishment is but barely sufficient for the exigencies of the County , and it can not be contended that it is on too large or extravagant a scale ; the number of patients constantly on the books of the Infirmary ; the high reputation which it has justly acquired under the excellent management of the medical and other officers belonging to it ; the strict economy which to the general satisfaction of the Governors has been observed in the ordinary expenditure of the House … call forcibly upon the County at large to hold out a protecting hand to save it from ruin which appears inevitably to have waited , if not averted by our timely interference . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The business carried by our urban railways could double or treble within three to four years , ’ Pettitt believes . |
| 12 | It is a pity more serious issues are not being pursued by our political representatives . |
| 13 | A large proportion of the posts already announced for relocation are destined for locations targeted by our regional development or urban programme policies and we expect that about 60 per cent . |
| 14 | David Holman strikes again with a faithful Dickens adaptation ; recommended by our own Richard Bates . |
| 15 | Cats and humans both evolved as meat-eaters — as predators — and until our biochemists have been able to produce synthetic meats , with the magic mixture of essential amino-acids , we are both trapped by our evolutionary past . |
| 16 | But one reason why on Thursday I shall for the first time be voting Conservative , with passionate conviction , may be illustrated by a meeting I attended in our constituency last Sunday , at which several hundred people were addressed by our four candidates . |
| 17 | When I was taught chemistry at Regent 's Street Polytechnic in the later 1930s , we 16-year-olds were treated as adults , not incompetents , and were expected to achieve titrations accurate to 1 per cent or less from the moment we began quantitative analysis : for were we not addressed by our splendid lecturers as ‘ Mr ’ ? |
| 18 | In fiction , he thought , Alice and I should have been tormented by our joint knowledge , distrustful , guilt-ridden , unable to live apart yet miserable together . |
| 19 | The inclusion or exclusion of information is decided by our historical experience which is gained by reading , discussion and thought . |
| 20 | Parliament met at the nunnery outside the English-occupied town , and on 7 July agreed with the French commander and envoy , the seigneur d'Essé , that ‘ the ancient bond , confederation and amity standing between the realm of France and this country ’ was the best chance against ‘ the mortal wars , cruelties , depredations and intolerable injuries done by our old enemies of England ’ . |
| 21 | We are well fed and watered by our willing support and once more I am into the fear of the unknown . |
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| 23 | The final indignities suffered by our old church has been in the last few years . |
| 24 | Our experience and understanding are shaped by our own minds , and necessarily so ; for they are our experience and our understanding . |
| 25 | For too long , the British have been reluctant Europeans — for understandable reasons , because our strong sense of national identity has been shaped by our exceptional history . |
| 26 | I would suggest that a sexual problem might best be defined as an obstacle to the satisfaction of sexual need — that need which arises in us partly from innate instinct and urge , partly from the circumstances of any given time , and which is tempered by our personal upbringing and development , our moral outlook and the social norms to which we subscribe . |
| 27 | We can only look to the practices within which we treat animals , be it as pets , racing animals , food , experimental subjects , or denizens of the wild , tempered by our natural disinclination to cause them needless suffering , or treat them with disrespect . |
| 28 | Between 1984 and 1990 in-depth studies of paraprofessional social service personnel were carried out on-site in Britain , India , Israel , Spain and the USA , in order to examine in more detail the trends and issues revealed by our international survey . |
| 29 | Sometimes our dreams tell coherent stories , but more often they are a jumble that seems logical at the time but is revealed by our conscious memory as a nonsense . |
| 30 | Connected by our infernal sound cable , and distributing our weight over as broad an area as possible , we crawled upwards again , like bears pretending to be spiders . |