Example sentences of "of our [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important working library on South-East Asia and much modern French literature has come to us by bequest of M. Jacques Dauphin , father of our former Lady Carlisle Research Fellow , Dr. Claudine Dauphin ; we owe special thanks to Dr. Dauphin and the army of Somervillian and non-Somervillian friends who helped transport this large collection of books across the Channel , and to Ann Raynes who stepped in at short notice to deliver the last consignment from London to Oxford . |
| 2 | Amongst his responsibilities are the relationships between the United Nations and our government and of course for us his very , very special claim to fame is that he is the younger brother of our former chairman Simon Boyd . |
| 3 | He continued ‘ Many of our former members who left the Association because of this type of subtle coercion now bitterly regret their decision . |
| 4 | Two of our former staffers now edit their own magazines James Truman as Details in New York , Lesley White at Mirabella ( UK launch in autumn ) . |
| 5 | If she had heard the circumstances of our former meeting , I am very sure she would prove as remorseless as Mrs Pigdon at the Feathers . ’ |
| 6 | Neil Campbell , principal craft and design teacher , said : ‘ We managed to run several SCOTVEC modules and now some of our former pupils are working in the field of mechanics . ’ |
| 7 | It is for the Association to continue to build a sound foundation of welfare facilities and support that will enable both today 's and the future 's needs to be met — in meeting this objective we are deeply indebted to the continuing dedication of our members and the support of our many friends . |
| 8 | However , one of our many mountain goats points out that had Sir Ranulph taken full advantage of mod.tech. he would have reduced his load drastically . |
| 9 | To the Indonesians , we found out later , one of the quainter of our many vulgarities is our predilection for depositing the contents of our noses in embroidered cloth and carrying it around in our pockets with us . |
| 10 | " Ibu and the Keraing are good people , " he told us unexpectedly , during one of our many conversations sitting one the beach . |
| 11 | At night , the action really begins to heat up , as guests from the nearby Irene and Sunshine Studios meet up for BBQ 's or for one of our many Club party nights . |
| 12 | HISTORY , as Marx once said , is not made in conditions of our own choosing . |
| 13 | As Marx remarked , even when we make our own history , we do not make it in conditions of our own choosing and much of it is made behind our backs . |
| 14 | But the degree to which we can control our environment is often determined by others as Morgan goes on to point out : " We all construct or shape our realities but not necessarily under circumstances of our own choosing " ( p. 140 ) . |
| 15 | This was the first major operation to take the fight to the enemy and establish a new theatre of war in a place of our own choosing . |
| 16 | If all science were as Lendrem portrays it , we could ascertain everything by resort to introspection and examination of our own motives . |
| 17 | From the beginning , photographers have recorded every facet of our own society , and many also made superb visual documents of foreign races and cultures , none more than John Thomson |
| 18 | From the beginning , photographers have recorded every facet of our own society , and many also made superb visual documents of foreign races and cultures , none more than John Thomson |
| 19 | Similarly , the violence in many sections of our own society today is , in the media , taken as proof of ‘ the animal nature of man ’ which — an insult to many animals — is always understood to be destructively aggressive . |
| 20 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 21 | While many other countries suffer more — and more violent — crime , it is still a worrying feature of our own society . |
| 22 | But before long , a correspondent of the STC was pointing out that " 60 to 70 per cent of the fair intruders are being sedulously drilled into the p's and q's of the art by members of our own society ! " |
| 23 | The temporality of the object may also contribute to our sense of identity by evoking the past of our own society . |
| 24 | For creativity is of the peak experience and the imagery in it is part of our own substance and it is in sympathy with our very being — so it is incomparable . |
| 25 | The , the amount of money is allocated on a weighted mileage basis so it 's to do with the length of mileages in the area and it also reflects the various types of surveys that are done to assess the condition of the , the roads in the various areas , so that 's how the money is first divided up on an area basis , but within that all the schemes that are listed here have been promulgated either from such as yourself , from members of the general public , or as a result of our own inspections er and a priority has been assessed to them in a methodical way . |
| 26 | Britain will be able to approach the European Community , and the critical period of our own presidency later this year , with determination to defend British interests and turn back the follies of the Euro-federalists , without the need for a constant backward eye upon political threats and divisions at home . |
| 27 | Close in the pod of our own concerns |
| 28 | The sameness of yellow road lights , shaped like faucets , flash black flash upon the desert of the motorway , and then , the bit where the road goes dark , where there is no light at all , but for the torch-like eyes of our own headlights . |
| 29 | It is created partly by our experience of our own mothers , partly by our individual nature , and partly by giving birth . |
| 30 | These characters have become so much a part of our own childhood that we almost forget their origin . |