Example sentences of "our [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We much appreciate your support in our fight to maintain the independence of Palatine , which your Board is convinced is in the best interests of its shareholders , employees and customers alike . |
| 2 | Our play offended the King . |
| 3 | At the same meeting at which the Vial memorandum was read , on 6 September 1791 , a letter to the secretary from Messrs Kirkman and Hendy ( who were present ) was produced : ‘ Sir , In consequence of your Advertisement we beg leave to inform you , that we have contracted with Lord Camden for about 100 acres of building land , near [ Old ] St Pancras Church , abutting on the Turnpike Road leading to Kentish Town , which is intended to be called Camden Town conceiving the situation eligible for your truly valuable Institution we request you will lay this our proposal before the Society — We hold this Land under his Lordship for 99 years from Michaelmas last , the three first subject to no Ground Rent , our proposal is , that Lord Camden does and he will under our direction grant the Society a lease for 99 years from that time , the three first subject to no rent but for the remainder of the term an Annual Rent of thirty pounds per acre , should this proposal meet with approbation , the Society have only to direct their Surveyor to make out any quantity of land and in what position they conceive will best answer their purpose ’ . |
| 4 | We ca n't tell whether our decision to move the sale to Ireland has helped influence the Chancellor but it went right home in Government circles , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Our decision to give the Commissioners of Inland Revenue responsibility for overseeing the work reflected our understanding of the demand in Scotland for consistency in the way in which taxes operate throughout Great Britain . |
| 6 | Our decision to give the assessors that responsibility reflects the views put to us during the consultation which persuaded us that they were best placed to undertake the work and to do the job well within the timetable allowed . |
| 7 | There was substantial agreement on changing policies on South Africa , which I much welcome , and there was a warm welcome for our decision to implement the Trinidad terms arrangement , which , if fully implemented by every member , will relieve the poorest countries in the world of $17,000 million of debt . |
| 8 | We have shown our commitment to better equipment by our recent purchase of the Westland helicopter and our decision to re-equip the Army with the Challenger II tank . |
| 9 | Our experience passed the limits of abhorrence : I lost all my earthly faculties and fought like an angel . |
| 10 | The organisation of our course recognizes the fact that our school population is of above average ability , and that our pupils and their parents wish to see real progress being made . |
| 11 | Local Christians took over our cinema to show the film Jesus of Nazareth and on the eve of the opening , the resident poltergeist threw a fit behind the closed doors of the projection room . |
| 12 | Our story jogged the memory of a former chauffeur with Balfour Beatty , the construction firm . |
| 13 | Many in our branch recognize the need for the strength , the baddening , the experience , the equal rights , health and safety , training opportunities within a large union , but they were also very worried about losing our own identity . |
| 14 | Our driver got the mail bags stowed away , and made his horses strike out in good style . |
| 15 | We had ample occupation watching the play of the clouds over the sides of the hills , and the bits of rugged moor and moss and flowing stream that enlivened the way ; but at a turning within some three miles of the inn of Kinlochewe , as we were about to pass the east-going mail gig with its complement of travellers , our driver jerked the horses into a ditch , which upset our machine and broke one of the springs . |
| 16 | His front leg was paralysed from an old road accident , our vet guessed the owners had abandoned her rather than pay for the amputation . |
| 17 | If , however , the social properties of objects are not as ‘ evident ’ as they are visible , this very factor may actually be , in part , responsible for our inability to appreciate the significance of the object . |
| 18 | Erm this whole problem does give ministers erm a great deal of tension and heart searching erm and er we 're in the throws of , of , of looking for a leaflet that 's gon na help ministers faced with er parents who come and have to be turned away because we feel embarrassed , we feel erm the weight of our , our turning away people and our inability to minister the grace of God to them , although I 'd of thought gravity of but er anyway erm er but we have this problem and erm it seems to me that one way out of it is to pick up on what our brother from the Church of England said and look at new rites , and new ways in which we can open our arms to a public out there which is desperately in need of rites of passage . |
| 19 | Our inability to standardise the timing of the initial packed cell volume is unfortunate as large changes in plasma volume occur in the first few hours of life . |
| 20 | The stress comes from our inability to handle the situations in an effective manner . |
| 21 | It describes a physical expression of emotions : we blush when out emotional and physical states collide , implying a loss of control , a betrayal of inner feelings , our inability to disguise the truth . |
| 22 | Our extract shows the interweaving of philosophy and narrative characteristic of the poem . |
| 23 | ‘ My niece , ’ he said , ‘ wished to thank us for our kindness following the death of Sir Ralph . |
| 24 | In our attempt to understand the diversity of tropical forests , using largely the example of the trees , we have had to take into account all the features of the plant that would appear to reflect the forces of natural selection in terms of physical factors : meteorological , topographical , pedological , and biotic ones . |
| 25 | Here are some less-contrived examples more helpful for our attempt to understand the nature of science . |
| 26 | What sort of economic approach to law is to be adopted in our attempt to establish the merits , or otherwise , of the Chinese Wall ? |
| 27 | It is our attempt to get the world to recognise what we can do technologically . |
| 28 | Inevitably , our friendship overlapped the boundaries of work and we began to meet in the evenings . |
| 29 | Other examples of such ambiguity are plentiful ; we offer at random : ( 3 ) ( a ) she wants to play the character limping ( b ) this process leaves the items date-stamped ( c ) Elmer made all the excuses imaginable ( d ) our lawyer sent the packages registered For instance , taking example ( c ) , under the attributive version , a speaker has a low opinion of Elmer as a man who prevaricates or procrastinates ; but with the alternative interpretation she may be giving credit to him for lending colour and credibility to a defence which has to be put forward . |
| 30 | Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered |