Example sentences of "our own [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the courgettes has been allowed to grow into a marrow , ready for our own harvest festival . |
| 2 | I think the dashing strain in these emigres appealed to the countrymen of Henri IV , Bernadotte , Foch ( and our own Fieldmarshal Alanbrooke ) , and Dumas 's d'Artagnan . |
| 3 | erm that sounds like , you know , our own housekeeping problems . |
| 4 | It was fogged , possibly by our own lab boys , we 'll never know . |
| 5 | And his programme was to try to show that really ultimately the only things that can be accepted are our own sense experiences , and to try to exhibit everything else , ordinary material objects , and then of course , physical objects in turn , as constructions , as logical constructions out of these . |
| 6 | And he wanted to do this because he thought that if it were possible , if we could start just from our own sense experiences , then a great simplification would have been achieved . |
| 7 | With Descartes he felt that our own sense experiences are the one things about which we can be absolutely certain . |
| 8 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 9 | ‘ The toughest test is staying the course during our own Duns Summer Festival , ’ said John , who 's a craft attendant at Torness . |
| 10 | The Gulf War , he said , had revealed the " weakness of our own intelligence services " and their " extreme dependence " on United States sources . |
| 11 | I have always tried , in these cases , to ensure that any diversification we seek is found in an area which is contiguous to our own skill base . |
| 12 | Throughout adulthood we are constantly reinforcing our own ageist attitudes by blaming our own inadequacies on ageing . |
| 13 | The damage to the integrity of the US banking system caused by the feckless management of the savings and loans system — which before US financial deregulation did much the same job as our own building societies — has been so extensive that its impact often goes unstated . |
| 14 | ‘ It ties in pretty well with our own satellite observation reports , ’ Hayman muttered . |
| 15 | We have our own animal magic at Redcar . |
| 16 | If they are not mounted , we can perhaps discuss procedures for having them mounted , probably using the services of our own Preservation Division . |
| 17 | Within our own catchment area considerable progress has been made towards developing the concept of a pyramid of schools working together to create coherence and continuity in curriculum and effective transition from school to school throughout the 3–16 age range . |
| 18 | We infiltrate informants into the underworld to organize our own counter-espionage apparatus … |
| 19 | When the weather starts to improve in the New Year , note that we have , by popular request , another talk by Graham Vincent , and talks by John Massey and our own member Len Davies . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is quite a lot of X in coffee — probably' enough to affect directly our own enkephalin receptors — but whether it is the major stimulant remains to be seen . |
| 22 | We have our own tour products , such a villa holidays but most people want to be independent . ’ |
| 23 | But the U.S. has space and a welcome for even more of us : with travel and tourism its third-largest retail industry , the ailing American economy can not afford to leave it up to our own tour firms to persuade us that the time — and price — is right . |
| 24 | I suppose that we each of us are born with our own primitive computers : two hands and ten fingers . |
| 25 | Another conclusion must be that if we as teachers are relative experts in our own subjects , and tend to read textbooks in our own subject area with the same skills as the Cornell students , then we may be insensitive to inadequacies in those textbooks . |
| 26 | As we are part of our own subject matter , we ultimately find ourselves . |
| 27 | Well we all know from our own history books that fire has been with us for a long long time has n't it ? |
| 28 | Energy Efficiency Since February 1989 we have operated an energy conservation programme through our own management team and contractors . |
| 29 | ‘ We have made our own management team , to control and reinvest profits into the group . |
| 30 | Our efforts to provide Cuba with the petroleum products it needed put a heavy burden on our own shipping system and forced us to order extra tankers from Italy . |