Example sentences of "the [noun sg] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the daytime our top balcony gave us a grandstand view of the arena in which the final events would take place . |
| 2 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 3 | It may even be that our exceptionally limited use of the sense of smell , and our twentieth-century obsession with eliminating body odours , are a recognition of the chaos our unmasked scents could create in our overcrowded lives . |
| 4 | All we have are accounts , and in that part of the study our contrasting sources are those within the class and its social order , and those without , including , of course , the teacher unfortunate enough to have to tangle with the kids whose daily life-situation that classroom encompasses . |
| 5 | We are staying at the Chateau de Maubisson and have brought to the village our royal master 's deep condolences on the sudden and tragic death of the Abbe Gerard . ’ |
| 6 | For the moment our principal concern will be to enquire into the forces which produce deviations of p , from , . |
| 7 | At the moment our whole economy is based on natural found hydrocarbons — oil , petrol — as these begin to run out , then we 've got to find a way of making these or substitutes for them , and this is what chemistry is all about , making new compounds or making old compounds in new ways . |
| 8 | We can still develop the business our own way , and we 've got a hotline to our financial backers when we need advice . ’ |
| 9 | But it helps to give the band our own sound , and I ca n't think of anyone else in the whole world that 's doing it . ’ |
| 10 | If there are four candidates in a constituency — Conservative , Labour , Liberal Democrat and Scottish Nationalist Party — and if thanks to the AV the Labour candidate is elected , first votes given to him will get 100% political representation in the constituency and first votes given to the other three candidates will get none at all : a strange sort of PARR , just like the sort our present system provides ! |
| 11 | We had to take our own meals at all times , even when we had cups of tea we had to take to the station our own tea , sugar and milk , but there was always a large kettle during the winter months on a coal fire , and during the summer months on a gas ring . |
| 12 | These fugitives that are Negroes go by the name of Maroon , whilst the renegades to the King 's laws are called by the common sailors red legs ( that being the colour our white skins take on in the heat of the sun in these regions ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't have anything to say to the nonsense our French friend has been uttering . |
| 14 | Years later , on the day our first child was due to be born , when it became obvious that the birth was not imminent , my husband Roger suggested that we go to a film to take our minds off the event . |
| 15 | That was the day our new licence to broadcast came into force . |
| 16 | So the the manager our greatest enemy , we used to know when he started from the house in the morning actually by quarry that er he was coming , but the on this particular day anyway , somebody had slipped up somewhere . |
| 17 | On the other hand , we do n't want to get in your way , and we should clarify at the start our respective roles . |
| 18 | We bring to bear on the various officers and employees and shareholders and others associated with the corporation our ordinary standards of personal responsibility . |
| 19 | On the journey our eldest child picked up bubonic plague , and when the steamer moored at Chauk my wife managed to get medicines from the BOC Hospital shortly before it closed . |
| 20 | You may be surprised by the success our direct actions have achieved so far . |
| 21 | For McLuhan argues that the way our cognitive apparatus works is determined by our ‘ sense ratio ’ , the balance between inputs to the various senses ( aural , visual , tactile , and so on ) . |
| 22 | To a very large extent the way our primary schools develop in the future will be a comment on how much we have learned from the largely fruitless traditionalist v progressive debate of the '60s and '70s . |
| 23 | It shows up in the way our best run companies now organize their work , regard their workers , design their enterprises . |
| 24 | But I was proud of the way our young players kept going . |
| 25 | Most members are only too pleased to go through their professional lives without the need to obtain an intimate understanding of the way our professional conduct committees work . |
| 26 | ‘ We are very pleased with the way our new destinations are performing , ’ says Mr Coe . |
| 27 | At the end of the chapter I shall make the paradoxical point that the theory we are looking for may actually need to seem improbable , even miraculous , to our subjective judgement ( because of the way our subjective judgement has been made ) . |
| 28 | The National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 will bring about important changes in the way our caring services are run . |
| 29 | These laws more than any others depend on the way our semantic model treats non-determinism , and would probably need to be revised in other systems . |
| 30 | To and all the family our deepest sympathy . |