Example sentences of "and our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its eyes can discern very small intervals of time ( it can respond to a falling hand in less than one hundredth of a second ) , and our clumsy attempts to kill it must appear ponderously slow , as if filmed in slow motion . |
| 2 | That our perceptual apparatus is reliable and our abductive sense is sound do not , for the Quinean position , need arguing ; we have ample evidence that they have guided us to the truth on many occasions . |
| 3 | Telegraph/Times readers were more ambivalent , however , and our small sample of Guardian readers preferred the press by a big majority . |
| 4 | But elderly ladies make me feel uncomfortable and our small talk petered out ; I was glad when she said she must go and congratulate N'dosi and moved away . |
| 5 | The empty upstairs became the haunt of druggies and our small children would sometimes carry in their needles . |
| 6 | Then , as things got worse , and our professional rights and status were further eroded , it seemed as if the only freedom left was to resist . |
| 7 | Thirdly , having overcome our sectional tensions and established a corporate identity we can perhaps enlist the support of our universities and our professional associations to establish more and better access to the funding which in relation to the sciences , has historically been denied to us . |
| 8 | Comic Relief is now in its fifth year , and our serious commitment to the work we support grows — as , unfortunately , does the need for that work . |
| 9 | We are cold and cramped , and apprehensive about our reception , the adequacy of our response to the speeches of welcome , and our awful singing . |
| 10 | In spite of this attitude by some of the die-hards , more and more money was being spent on new craft and equipment and our Technical Branch , which hitherto had concentrated on the maintenance on our fleet of small boarding launches , was being geared up to deal with the new cutter fleet . |
| 11 | Erm , I from Edinburgh branch , I 'm the Assistant Manager of Services there , erm , that means I 'm in charge of Personnel and Admin , erm , Personal Insurances and our Technical Services Unit . |
| 12 | Ring ( 0800 ) 373113 between 9.00am and 5.30pm , Monday to Friday , and our Technical Support Staff will talk you through any hardware or software difficulty . |
| 13 | but er , we would get er , an actual allowance and our actual expenditure and we 'll be able to calculate an actual performance . |
| 14 | The attempt would be made to ‘ expose in a lucid manner the relation existing between recent enquiries , and our actual store of knowledge ’ , and not ‘ merely isolated and unconnected abstracts of the several individual investigations ’ . |
| 15 | The Business Strategy Unit , headed by Ken Currie , will provide a wide range of support to the business managing directors and the chief executive and will be working closely with business and international staff , as well as with Strategic Planning , Corporate Communication , Finance , QIS and our chief scientist . |
| 16 | And she was almost looking forward to death , because then she would be with William and our dear mother in a place of peace . |
| 17 | Meantime it gives us great consolation to know that you and our dear children are well . |
| 18 | There is first a movement inward by which , instead of living in our surface mind , we break the wall between our external and our subliminal self ; this can be brought about by a gradual effort and discipline or by a vehement transition , sometimes a forceful involuntary rupture — the latter by no means safe for the limited human mind and accustomed to live securely only within its normal limit — but in either way , safe or unsafe , the thing can be done . |
| 19 | Our behaviour shows it , although our talk , discussion and our political agendas and conference agendas do not . |
| 20 | ( For a political perspective on the issue of VAT on fuel we go live to Torquay and our Political Editor , Peter Hayes , who 's at the Liberal Democrat Conference . ) |
| 21 | Keegan , who ten days ago was boss of an apparently invincible Geordie side , said : ‘ I know what people are thinking , but the only difference between our defeat at Leicester on Saturday and our early season results was that we gave away a silly goal . ’ |
| 22 | This has been done with very harmonic negotiations on contracts , er big operators er and our substantial savings . |
| 23 | In earlier years , he may have smiled indulgently on seeing us and our makeshift tables with their colourless array of old books and goods . |
| 24 | After the last time , he 'd vowed not to do any more , but we all found our firm stances weakened as soon as the blindfold was pulled down and our well-rounded arguments got vaguer and vaguer as our minds raced with apprehension . |
| 25 | In the coming year , every one of us must raise the level of our performance , enhance our personal skills and ensure that we meet successfully the challenges of the current market and our planned expansion . |
| 26 | That is , we refer to our sensations as ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ because they are the sensations which usually go with our bodies being hot or cold ; and it is not the case that we call external things hot and cold because we think there is something in common between them and our bodily sensations . |
| 27 | It is the information with which we feed our computer , our unconscious programming and our negative reactions to these images — or even our imaginations being used negatively — which all fuel fear . |
| 28 | However , this is not a study of symphonic forms , and our sole purpose is to indicate the situation . |
| 29 | Then he can do the night calls and our connubial bliss wo n't be interrupted . ’ |
| 30 | In no area is this more significant than in the field of medical research , and it will become evident that the principles outlined above apply equally to interactions between living cells and our mental functioning . |