Example sentences of "of our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when we are more aware of our personal attitudes can we become active in confronting ageism wherever it is encountered . |
| 2 | So far , I have thought mainly in terms of our personal relationship with God . |
| 3 | On one flight from England , carrying some of our personal possessions , bells started ringing at the Customs Desk — and my carving knife was temporarily confiscated in case I attempted to hijack the plane ! |
| 4 | The social contract involves our sacrificing a portion of our personal liberty to achieve this end , but not out of some innate desire for the common good , since ‘ If it were possible , every one of us would prefer that the compacts binding others do not bind us ’ . |
| 5 | In earlier chapters , we saw that our emotional life is centrally important in the growth of our personal life and faith . |
| 6 | Instead , they express the source of our personal well-being and blessing . |
| 7 | To introduce such a law in Britain would be ridiculous and would be another part of our personal freedom taken away . |
| 8 | In every Barclays branch you can get free professional advice on savings from one of our Personal Bankers , or another member of our trained staff . |
| 9 | If you would like some help to decide which account is right for you , talk to one of our Personal Bankers . |
| 10 | Conversations in stall rooms frequently centred around the pressures of waiting lists , the burden of heavy caseloads , the ‘ hopeless cases , , the lack of appreciation from management , the absence of support and the inevitability of working countless hours of unpaid overtime , at the expense of our personal lives . |
| 11 | Despite this there is a growing market in the sale of personal data , as companies and employers try to find out the details of our personal lives . |
| 12 | The kind of morality which Spinoza recommends is one which guides us on how we may live out our lives in the fullest possible exercise of our personal urges and abilities . |
| 13 | Very few of us remain confident of our personal power in every situation and with every sort of person . |
| 14 | Er it 's an invasion of our personal privacy . |
| 15 | In all aspects of our personal lending business , we shall act fairly and responsibly . |
| 16 | An interesting adaption of our 10 day holiday to Alsopahok in Hungary occurs when we make an overnight stay in the Vienna Woods area , thereby giving you plenty of time for sightseeing in Vienna itself . |
| 17 | I have , therefore , taken 1957 as the true starting Point of our post-imperial era . |
| 18 | The exact date of the beginning of our post-imperial era is , however , relatively unimportant . |
| 19 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 20 | There has to be an operational role or ‘ peg ’ , which provides the raison d'être for each regiment , if it is to survive in the harsh financial climate of our post-imperial era . |
| 21 | Throughout the first three decades of our post-imperial era , equipment-cost inflation has outstripped monetary inflation , and there has been insufficient growth in the British economy to make up the difference . |
| 22 | Does my hon. Friend think that the Labour party was acting in the best interests of Britain and of our Baltic friends when , in 1969 , it did a deal with Brezhnev and handed over the Baltic gold ? |
| 23 | ‘ We will continue to defend the place of our proprietary mainframes , even though we are well aware of the irreversible erosion of this part of the market . |
| 24 | Zipping in and out of our blue jeans — |
| 25 | It reminded me again , as did Plum Warner 's letter to Edrich , and the story of Drake on Plymouth Hoe , that an important part of our Anglo-Saxon heritage is a sense of proportion . |
| 26 | To Leese immigration and race-mixing was a jewish plot to undermine the British Empire , and to ensure that the ‘ poisoning of our Anglo-Saxon blood by this yellow negroid horde is proceeding a pace ’ . |
| 27 | The Ancient Britons surged forward and began forming themselves into lines , Elinor in front as Boudicca in a pretend chariot and Otley as Venutius , the belligerent Brit , consort of our Brigantian Queen Cartimandua . |
| 28 | Children are subjected every day to newspaper and television news bulletins revealing the brutality and ugliness of the world and no matter how hard we try we could never successfully protect our young from the harsh reality of our violent world . |
| 29 | Then we 'll have most of our forty-eight hour local leave to fix up the deal . ’ |
| 30 | But Copernicus dealt it a crippling blow when he discovered that the sun , and not the earth , was the centre of our insignificant system . |