Example sentences of "[to-vb] in our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | To be a highly visible minority of two in communities which were often as expressive as they were antagonistic was an abrupt reversal of the roles we had so unthinkingly come to accept in our British prep schools . |
| 2 | WE have concentrated up to now on ways of starting to write in our own voice : through calling up early memories , waking up the senses and developing an ear for the rhythms of speech . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps you and Cleo would like to participate in our little experiment , ’ Drago said to Dauntless . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Because prayer is the language of our hearts before God , it enables us to grow in our emotional life before God , so that these qualities of Christian joy become part of our very selves . |
| 6 | For many who adopt a liberal and free-enterprise approach the explanation of our present problems is the increasing role which government has come to play in our economic life . |
| 7 | Most of them will have to play in our remaining games . |
| 8 | All levels of decision taking have an important part to play in our political process . |
| 9 | Britain 's historic buildings — of all types — have a vitally important role to play in our daily lives . |
| 10 | The lives of the saints are of course available for me , or anyone else , to use in our own journeyings . |
| 11 | Many external influences can affect our state of mind , from the food we eat to the time of year , from programming in our past to stress in our current situation . |
| 12 | It is all down to what we have to do in our coming matches . |
| 13 | ‘ A couple of years ago we realised we had to invest in our own training programme , ’ said Ben Stocks , UK general manager and group marketing manager for the business , part of Courtaulds Coatings . |
| 14 | We each had to sit in our own chair . |
| 15 | ‘ We are all trying to cope in our own way . |
| 16 | PFA spokesman Brendan Batson surveyed the ever-increasing number of imports and said : ‘ The cost of ground developments after the Taylor Report is so steep that many managers ca n't afford to shop in our domestic transfer market . |
| 17 | We are glad that you are coming to share in our National Conference on 10–12 March at the Scottish Churches House , Dunblane . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We have to , we want to live in our own country , and we have a right to live in our own country . |
| 20 | We have to , we want to live in our own country , and we have a right to live in our own country . |
| 21 | The abolition of the old 75 percent grant system for adaptations to privately owned homes has been replaced by the bureaucratic nightmare on the new system which has dramatically decimated the number of grants made to enable us to live in our own homes . |
| 22 | We are lucky to live in Oxford and to have in our Labour Council a body which cares not only for our community but also for our environment . |
| 23 | We must ensure that such movements are not given the opportunity to develop in our own country . |
| 24 | How it managed to survive in our sophisticated century remains one of the modern wonders of the world . |
| 25 | It is a special occasion as it coincides with a lovely Flower Celebration and we have Canon Harney to thank very much for allowing this to happen in our lovely Cathedral . |
| 26 | He gives us that space to grow into the maturity he wants from each of us : freedom to think , freedom to pray in our own way , freedom to worship according to our temperament and inclination . |
| 27 | I think that what happened was that a lot of traditional union members , that is , the white , heterosexual male stewards who normally formed its backbone , for once took a back-seat , and allowed us to get on with it — to organize in our own way which we did . |
| 28 | A home is the single largest capital investment to make in our entire life , and yet only some ten to fifteen percent of purchasers will commission a detailed report . |
| 29 | The nation 's scientific success depends also on the ability of our schools to instil in our young people a good basic scientific knowledge and an enthusiasm for further work in science . |
| 30 | We were given a lot of work to prepare in our spare time and I remember trying to keep warm in the daytime in an overcoat and scarf while I wrote an essay or struggled with Latin composition . |