Example sentences of "of our [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's important that we look at the pattern of our spending as a local authority over the past five or six years . |
| 2 | They were spectacular efforts often launched some distance from the target , who would be dillying and dallying with his foot on the ball when , suddenly and without warning , he would end up in a twisted heap at the bottom of our wall amid a terrible noise of stud on bone . |
| 3 | He appeared to strike a strong position in relation to the current GATT round by stating : ‘ I would say to those outside the community , we have reached the absolute limit in terms of our contribution towards a GATT deal on agriculture . ’ |
| 4 | We at first wanted to know each other , then knowing became friends , and every day as our knowledge increased , greater liking , deeper sympathy , and so on to love and feeling our love , knowing it to be true , pure , and everlasting ; then the desire for the perfect life of unity , and then of giving the world the benefit of our love by a little child . |
| 5 | Apart from improbable luck , much of our success as a two-man team — and siblings at that — comes less from our similarities than from our differences of character . |
| 6 | This is not an attempt to return to a nineteenth-century form of laissez-faire but to change the structures of our society in a direction more consonant with our Christian principles . |
| 7 | It 's part of our heritage in a way |
| 8 | The KPMG Investigations Service Practice Guide suggests a format for drafting the section dealing with the scope of our work as a separate Appendix . |
| 9 | Moreover , the right hon. Gentleman said in terms that neither Iraq nor Argentina was in any way deterred from attacking British interests by reason of our possession of a nuclear weapon . |
| 10 | ‘ And a statue of Our Lady in a blue-and-white dress with a golden crown , ’ said Lili . |
| 11 | Mr Carroll W. Collins requested the pleasure of our company for a ranch party , in Western dress , at Texas Lil 's Diamond A Ranch . |
| 12 | We have rational grounds to attribute a grasp of our concept of a bone to Fido ’ ( 63 ) . |
| 13 | The quality of our vision on a dark night must be far poorer than 5 per cent of what it is at midday . |
| 14 | ‘ It is an example of our support for a variety of worthy causes around the country . ’ |
| 15 | During 1991 and after 10 years of negotiations , the START treaty was signed , and in itself it is indeed only a start as it still leaves enormous stockpiles of delivery systems and nuclear warheads , enough to reduce most of our planet to a radioactive cinder heap . |
| 16 | ‘ Commitment of our authority to a training policy : adequate resources will not , without such a policy , solve the problem ’ . |
| 17 | It is a sign of our growth as a movement that one magazine is no longer enough . |
| 18 | The EPA 's analysis , found much of our world in a single oyster — 40 different chemical compounds that natural selection did n't leave there . |
| 19 | ‘ This is n't the first time in the past two years he 's stalked out of our house in a jealous rage , swearing that this time our relationship is over for good . ’ |
| 20 | Finally , the KGB assassinated a dozen members of our group as a warning to the others . |
| 21 | The third task was to get the five members of our group through a large spider web . |
| 22 | So that it would be a means of comparison of our organization with a competitor . |
| 23 | As part of our commitment to a quality service to patients , we will end compulsory competitive tendering for hospital support services , which has driven down standards of cleanliness and catering . |
| 24 | Paying cash had the added benefit of leaving no record of our visit except a pencilled telephone booking under two untraceable names . |
| 25 | That disparity lies at the heart of our opposition to a property tax . |
| 26 | Fifty two year old Agnes Smith does n't need to lose anything like that amount , but as part of our search for a healthy lifestyle she 's agreed to try this form of group therapy . |
| 27 | I think our delegate will appreciate that er , it is a difficult issue , we do try as much as we possibly can to project all aspects of our membership in a fair fashion , and we go out of our way er , to be fair in respect of er certain er areas . |
| 28 | Quail Eggs Arnold Bennett — perhaps the name should put one off , and what arrived was enough for a full meal , with much haddock , but the sauce was rather thick , reminding one of our party of a school-sanatorium dinner . |
| 29 | We finally reached the top — to discover that the party behind had used some of our gear at a belay . |
| 30 | It seems to me that the really critical thing that has happened since the emergence of the gay movement is the affirmation of our identity through a sense of community , through an involvement with each other . |