Example sentences of "most of our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of our ordinary lives are governed by the part that sees , which is capable of performing ordinary tasks . |
| 2 | This was made worse because most of our second phase was from ruck ball as opposed to their reliance on mauls , which kept forward momentum going . |
| 3 | However , erm you know you came back about the retail aspect of course and most of our traditional sales people have never had telephone experience in that sense . |
| 4 | ‘ Approval of these plans will enable us to retain and build on our existing workforce , which is what we want to do , otherwise we would have to find a completely new site , probably out of Wales , too far away for most of our existing employees . ’ |
| 5 | By 1963 the first round of green belt submissions had been vetted by the Ministry and controls were in operation around most of our major cities . |
| 6 | Most of our major meetings are preceded by these sessions . |
| 7 | ‘ And with interest rates down by 4 percentage points in just six months , Britain enters the year ahead in a more favourable position than most of our major competitors . |
| 8 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 9 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 10 | The city was he believed , rightly enough , ‘ fairly representative of the conditions existing in many if not most of our provincial towns ’ , providing a range of industrial and service employment with average pay and employment levels . |
| 11 | It is absolutely imperative that we get inflation down to the lowest level and keep it there , for most of our future prospects depend on that being the case . |
| 12 | First , there seems at present less to complain about in most of our primary schools than in secondary or tertiary education . |
| 13 | Most of our short-term patients are suffering from diseases such as muscular dystrophy , motor neurone disease , Huntington 's chorea or multiple sclerosis . |
| 14 | Labour , for example , whose position was voiced by shadow education secretary Jack Straw , was correct to complain that Britain currently invests considerably less in its research base than most of our industrial competitors . |
| 15 | Today , most of our deaf children are being educated in units attached to ordinary schools , under various names such as ‘ deaf units ’ , ‘ partially hearing/partially deaf units ’ , ‘ units for the hearing-impaired ’ . |
| 16 | Most of our extra work comes in fact the run-up to er bonfire night . |
| 17 | The modern legal aid scheme , which provides financial assistance ( subject to eligibility ) in connection with proceedings in most of our civil courts , has come a long way since 1495 when statute provided for poor people , at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor , to sue without payment to the Crown , and to have lawyers assigned to them without fee . |
| 18 | It 's rather ironic that , over a quarter of century later , we 're still relying on a charitable organisation to meet most of our preschool provision needs . |
| 19 | Then we 'll have most of our forty-eight hour local leave to fix up the deal . ’ |
| 20 | If it is achieved , the production costs will be not much more than half the current figure , and the undertaking will be able to compete with most of our opencast coal facilities . |
| 21 | In fact it was surprising how good they were to us on most of our official visits . |
| 22 | Most of our red deer are feral , having been introduced to or having escaped from deer parks . |
| 23 | Economically , we can not afford to be excluded from a group that includes most of our main trading partners , including our biggest partner of all , the Federal Republic of Germany . |
| 24 | The efficient two-way transfer of information between ourselves and external systems can be seen to underpin all of our scientific activities , most of our public information functions , and a great deal of our internal records management . |
| 25 | ( Lakoff and Johnson ( 1980 : 14 – 21 ) argue that spatial metaphors structure most of our fundamental concepts . |
| 26 | ‘ In most of our large cities there are so-called ‘ residents ’ who get their orders from a boss in Poland . |
| 27 | As a result most of our large towns had their select residences on the western side , in positions where they received the benefit of the prevailing wind before it passed over the town or city ; the poorer population residing on the eastern side . |
| 28 | We are very proud to have participated in such a successful development , particularly because it was a real team effort alongside CFI , the Tencel team and Research , and most of our own activities were involved , with Process Machinery and Spinnerettes having prominent roles . |
| 29 | We could get a word-processor and do most of our own typing . |
| 30 | Most of our potential customers are quite young — secretaries and office staff . |