Example sentences of "[vb -s] to our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the thirteenth century , Marco Polo described Bukhara as the finest city in all Persia and Tabriz as the most splendid city in the province ( of Iraq ) , neither of which corresponds to our contemporary understanding . |
| 2 | It corresponds to our classical intuition , and everyday experience , of how particles behave . |
| 3 | It is this uneven development that links to our central interest in time-space distantiation and its effects on people 's consciousness and actions . |
| 4 | This leads to our second reason for feeling that we had to explain how women have come so far : when women achieved the vote little else changed . |
| 5 | The same applies to our Conservative members , let us know in due course . |
| 6 | This he attributes to our oceanic climate . |
| 7 | Gender identity is dependent on the personality of the individual and refers to our inner feeling of being masculine or feminine in outlook . |
| 8 | Peter Harris on how the British approach of designing and buying a home differs to our European neighbours . |
| 9 | But the principal credit goes to our legal team for identifying at the outset the essential weakness in the plaintiffs ' case . |
| 10 | Which , of course , momentarily , it did : ‘ Two weeks , ’ she boldly and brightly continued , breaking the trance like stillness with a frisky movement of her head and braceleted right arm , ‘ yes , two weeks , in Kyoto and Osaka , it should be quite fascinating , quite an opportunity to see a completely different culture , of course it relates to our own work at the Institute in a very particular way , it seems that there has been a considerable amount of research done in the department we are visiting on the problems of adoption and stepparents . |
| 11 | Objective a ) requires the provision of information resources to underpin the research effort , and implicitly provides for our function as a publisher ; b ) explicitly mentions the library and the archive collection ; c ) implies the efficient curation of information , and the granting of access to the resources ; d ) specifies our enquiry , consultancy and educational functions , all of which have a high information content ; e ) demands the use of expertise and data for the provision of specialist services , and f ) relates to our public amenity function , and sets out the purposes for which access to the amenity is provided . |
| 12 | It is to the shame of this Tory government that er er our senior citizens have to struggle to feed and clothe themselves and to try to keep warm , and as inadequate pensions that they receive from this government if you compare the way in the other European countries what they get and what the British government gives to our old age pensioners , our senior citizens they 're more they 're worse off than actually second class citizens . |
| 13 | And it is this that connects to our specific concerns with the instinctive bases of human behaviour . |
| 14 | The damage this does to our Christian life is incalculable . |
| 15 | We can even be afraid of fear itself or the chaos it brings to our inner world . |
| 16 | But when it comes to our emotional profile , to our below-surface identity , then there are no longer any doubles . |