Example sentences of "of our [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thrown high into the air by one bump , one of our closer neighbours , a young man in a gallibaya , lost control of his bowels . |
| 2 | Higher body temperatures in the daytime could be the result of our greater activity when it is light , with muscle effort producing the increased heat . |
| 3 | Traditional teaching is relative rather than fixed because of our greater understanding of the limits imposed by culture . |
| 4 | The politico-military problem that we face in our post-imperial era is how to maintain the greatest practicable measure of national independence without jeopardizing the security of our islands and of our wider interests in the world at large . |
| 5 | The consultants ' report is part of our wider consideration of the future role of the inspectorate . |
| 6 | So , if turning away qualified candidates , on the one hand , and significant loss of quality , on the other hand , are to be avoided , that leaves only the third option , namely the funded expansion of our higher education provision . |
| 7 | At some of our higher category hotels , our customers staying 3 nights or more are invited to a meal at their hotel . |
| 8 | In part two of our go-faster series , we consider getting even more out of the hard disk — by cacheing . |
| 9 | The most critical one in some ways is a change in the structure of our lower jaw , so instead of having a lot of bones in our lower jaw we have just a single bone in our lower jaw , the dentory , which articulates with a bone called the scremosal , whereas in reptiles the quadrate and articular for the articulation and those bones have now got stuck into our inner ear and do some stuff about conducting sound impulses . |
| 10 | When er , the headmaster when he was reading out the the subjects that people were taking for highers , and one girl was doing physics , maths and further maths , he said oh , one of our cleverer girls ! |
| 11 | Later , when Caxton set up his printing press in the fifteenth century , the expert printers he employed were Dutch : so although the written language became more standardised , many of our odder spellings derive from the attempts of Dutchmen to symbolise English words . |
| 12 | Also I happen to think he is still one of our better players . |
| 13 | We may find the attractions of a particular member of the opposite sex irresistible , even though the better judgment of our better self tells us that a liaison with that person is not in anyone 's long-term interests . |
| 14 | ‘ Buying a Permutit water softener from EcoWater was certainly one of our better decisions ’ |
| 15 | On top of our better understanding of plasma physics , we also had a wide range of new diagnostic techniques . |
| 16 | Quick as a flash one of our older officers answered " the breast stroke , I think . |
| 17 | The constrictions of our older cities will become more and more irksome . |
| 18 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |
| 19 | This led on to many of our older members recalling their experiences too . |
| 20 | It was a delight to see the pleasure , particularly of many of our older employees , once again meeting up with the former MD 's of the company . |
| 21 | The objective of the exhibition was to encourage creative solutions to everyday obstacles and to replace what Helen Hamlyn , the founder of the Trust , called ‘ the sordid warehousing of our older people . ’ |
| 22 | Most tasteless item has to be the LUFC tie-dye t-shirt ( makes you yearn for the return of black-and-white photography ) , while certain of our older list members may be interested in the fetching blue slippers with Leeds United crest . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've often been guilty of overwriting and some of our older songs used to have two three pages of words , ’ Gedge told Sounds . |
| 24 | Your recollections will no doubt revive a lot of memories for many of our older readers and provide quite a few talking points for younger ones . |
| 25 | No small part of the low earnings of many Negroes , Puerto Ricans , Mexican nationals , indigenous migrating farm workers , poor farm people and some of our older workers reflects the failure to have invested in their health and education . |
| 26 | Is it possible to make more of our later lives ? |
| 27 | This proof suffers from a slight defect in that one of our later aims is to show how to construct Q on the basis of Z so that officially Q does not yet exist . |
| 28 | Less commonly known , but equally polished , are the performances of Patrouille de France and Frecce Tricolori at some of our larger air displays . |
| 29 | The superb main battle tank engine is made by Perkins Engines , one of our larger employers . |
| 30 | THE DUSSELDORF YACHT HAS A SPECTACULAR ANDREW WINCH INTERIOR WHOSE THEME CAN BE REPEATED ON ANOTHER 68 OR ANY OF OUR LARGER MODELS . |