Example sentences of "and our [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | The empty upstairs became the haunt of druggies and our small children would sometimes carry in their needles . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Meantime it gives us great consolation to know that you and our dear children are well . |
| 7 | Our behaviour shows it , although our talk , discussion and our political agendas and conference agendas do not . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the crossing in was poor and our best chances came when Strach , Sharp , or Mcallister ran at the defence ( good tackling denied Strachan a certain goal ) . |
| 9 | The Volunteer Centre tell us : ‘ We are beginning to do some work in this area to change this practice ’ , and our best wishes go out to that august body . |
| 10 | I 'm sure it 's your wish to congratulate on his appointment and our best wishes for the future . |
| 11 | This has been done with very harmonic negotiations on contracts , er big operators er and our substantial savings . |
| 12 | In my first year as chairman I am delighted to report that we have again achieved outstanding results , and we have increased the gap between ourselves and our nearest competitors . |
| 13 | In earlier years , he may have smiled indulgently on seeing us and our makeshift tables with their colourless array of old books and goods . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And our greatest pleasures may be found there . |
| 18 | We should see our respective institutions as having equal status , and our individual functions as equivalent regardless of grade . |
| 19 | Therefore the nostalgic gloss my grandmother cast backwards upon her own childhood and on her favourite brother , can not be separated from their histories , and our easy condemnations of slaughter miss the complicated realities . |
| 20 | We do it wrong , being so majestical , To offer it the show of violence ; For it is , as the air , invulnerable , And our vain blows malicious mockery . |
| 21 | As the war moved northwards , there was greater pressure on the hospital and our convalescent homes . |
| 22 | They do , now and then , and our Egyptian friends usually cut out their tongues and their livers . |
| 23 | And our cheap clothes for that matter . |
| 24 | ‘ But we 'll be treating my daughter and our four grandchildren who live next door . ’ |
| 25 | And our four winners ( who must have a handicap of 24 or under ) will tee off alongside such celebrities as Henry himself and a host of other stars such as John Conteh , Roy Walker , Eddie Large and Richard O'Sullivan . |
| 26 | The following companies also make a substantial contribution to the IFSCC in supporting members of the Praesidium , and our grateful thanks therefore also go to : |
| 27 | The four days went all to quickly and our grateful thanks go to everyone who helped to organise such a smooth running event . |
| 28 | ‘ There has been an unfortunate combination of injuries and suspensions and our better players not performing as they can . |
| 29 | President , Congress and our inclusive visitors as well , because nobody 's mentioned them yet . |
| 30 | cakestand and our snottery noses at the pane well and truly up |