Example sentences of "to our [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Special thanks must go to our many suppliers and customers for their most generous gifts and donations which ranged from 3 Nights in Paris for two , to a bottle of whisky . |
| 2 | Dorothy Sayers ' Harriet Vane was 31 at her Gaudy , yet her nostalgia and sense of life-lived-since put her nearer our mid-forties ; paradoxically I think we 're much closer to our former selves — or do they all say that ? |
| 3 | Our defence policy is based on our massive commitments , due to our former empire and colonies , now our Commonwealth , and the variety of organisations with which Britain is involved while our European partners are not . |
| 4 | I thank him for his most generous tribute to our former colleague Richard Holt , who will be remembered by hon. Members on both sides of the House with considerable affection . |
| 5 | The flood of diverse human experience which it brings down to our own life and time is in no sense or degree foreign to us , but has become the native experience of men of our own race and culture . |
| 6 | It has been fundamental to our own work here . |
| 7 | Which , of course , momentarily , it did : ‘ Two weeks , ’ she boldly and brightly continued , breaking the trance like stillness with a frisky movement of her head and braceleted right arm , ‘ yes , two weeks , in Kyoto and Osaka , it should be quite fascinating , quite an opportunity to see a completely different culture , of course it relates to our own work at the Institute in a very particular way , it seems that there has been a considerable amount of research done in the department we are visiting on the problems of adoption and stepparents . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the attitudes which Wordsworth adopted towards industrialization were successfully transmitted to the later nineteenth century , and ultimately down to our own day , where they have sometimes been incorporated into the law of the land . |
| 9 | Passing to our own day , fine editions include the Nonesuch Press issue of 1924–27 , in five volumes with engraved titles and head-pieces by Stephen Gooden ; but many will give pride of place to the Doves Press The English Bible containing the Old Testament and the New , published in 1905 , also in five volumes . |
| 10 | Yet it , too , was a registration of the triumph of European culture ; down to our own day the political life of the world has increasingly been debated in the terms forged by European history and in a European idiom . |
| 11 | His stress on Marxism as a historical method that presupposed and required the idea of totality initiated a course that determined the history of Western Marxism to our own day . |
| 12 | Three times as many people had been packed into the old confines as could prudently be housed there , even by the low standards of a hundred years ago , and the slums of Nottingham have remained a byword down to our own day . |
| 13 | Sarcasm and theoretical criticism of these in due course preyed on FitzRoy 's mind , and in 1865 he killed himself ; after an intermission , and despite ‘ scientific ’ criticism of the empiricism of it all , the weather forecasts were resumed , perhaps with slowly increasing accuracy down to our own day . |
| 14 | Beginning with jet 's origins as a fossilised wood hence its lightness and relative warmth to the touch Mabel 's well-illustrated 280-page book traces the use of jet from prehistoric times , through the amazing Victorian jet boom , to our own day . |
| 15 | I assumed that somewhere in our contracts there was a clause in which we relinquished our rights to our own nationalities . |
| 16 | Through this behaviour we not only accept irreversible environmental damage to our own backyard , we also export serious atmospheric problems across the whole world . |
| 17 | Recondite though her theme may be , she succeeds , by focusing on its scientific aspects , in demonstrating that it is not without relevance to our own times , as becomes immediately apparent when she finds the origin of the movement in an information explosion . |
| 18 | Marx 's son-in-law Edward Aveling was so great an enthusiast that his death was noted in Wisden , and nearer to our own times C.L.R. James attained guru status to West Indian followers of both Leon Trotsky and George Headley . |
| 19 | Accordingly , courses range over syntactic and phonological structure , and both temporal and spatial variation , embracing all the major stages of the language , from its Anglo-Saxon origins down to our own times . |
| 20 | But we must have the right to carry out our duty to impart the moral convictions , the moral teaching of our Church to our own members . |
| 21 | But I mean I I expect , I mean even we had some left over e eventually you could sell them to our own members because they 'd all want to use it |
| 22 | There is surely a lesson here for us , as we turn to information technology for solutions to our own problems of communication . |
| 23 | ‘ In other words , ’ says Maurice Melloul , ‘ our Preferred Suppliers are those which help us most to be preferred suppliers to our own customers . ’ |
| 24 | Have we contributed to our own marginalisation ? |
| 25 | This is our chance therefore to bring another aspect of the developing culture to our own doorsteps . |
| 26 | This motion is about Labour Party accountability to our own union members and not about our accountability to a handful of M Ps , so whatever the result of the er particular , er Labour Party links debate we 've just had , it 's still important to consider the practical er effects of the link we have with the Labour Party locally . |
| 27 | We must be prepared to face the cost of being a part of the answer to our own prayers . |
| 28 | However , most two pack systems , similar to our own Wood Bleach , do not contain any acid and as Mr Leach himself points out the ‘ A ’ solution is usually a strong alkaline . |
| 29 | Yet Ruddock , the man with a similar Jamaican-Canadian upbringing to our own Lennox Lewis , proceeded to batter former world champion Greg Page and then knock out big-punching top ten prospect Phil Jackson . |
| 30 | This could well form a separate main activity , since it encompasses goal-directed research ( preparation of lectures , tours and exhibitions ; enquiry answering ) , research involved with the supervision and teaching of information management , bibliography and research methodology to our own students , M.Sc. |