Example sentences of "our [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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1 | We are not quarrelling with this decision in any way , because I believe that our full-time forces are already overstretched for the roles and tasks that the Government have outlined for them both in and out of area , and that the territorial forces play a vital support role . |
2 | We 're also running erm without , we must be running without or we 've got a significantly reduced level of chase-ups because our turn- rounds are , in most areas , are significantly better than they were . |
3 | Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator . |
4 | Our mobile home was well equipped with two bedrooms , bathroom and kitchen . |
5 | Charlie 's combination with George Garratt on our right wing was a pleasing feature of Palace teams of the period , while Charlie himself was twice selected to play for London against Birmingham in inter-city representative matches . |
6 | Most of our short-term patients are suffering from diseases such as muscular dystrophy , motor neurone disease , Huntington 's chorea or multiple sclerosis . |
7 | In these circumstances where we have referred a sale opportunity to the purchaser , the terms and conditions of our introductory fee are set out in sections 1103.1 and 1108.1 . |
8 | These omission errors are small compared with the effects of changes in diagnostic criteria : rates in our broad class are more than double those in the probable class . |
9 | Our broad beans are like that ! |
10 | Nor is it a question of quality ; our technical standards are higher , our news programmes better illustrated , and our interviewers more competent , than in any other country . |
11 | Well , let's see how our private war is progressing . |
12 | ‘ I nearly stepped into space because our private car is n't there . ’ |
13 | When we heard on the grapevine that one of our four-legged friends was setting up her own fan club , it certainly gave us paws for thought . |
14 | Even our 12-year-old boy is there in the clippings in his Mickey Mouse shirt with his cup of tea and his Kalashnikov rifle , scampering across page one on 25 September 1976 , behind that barricade of old doors , travelling with us to page four , column three , into that grassy interior . |
15 | We eventually made good our escape to Braemar , where we sat miserably in the pub , lamenting the fact that our dry clothes were a 200 mile bus and train journey away in Aviemore . |
16 | Erm and i also need to be concerned that the health authority I think is claiming that this merger will actually give them a better erm size population for research purposes for for purchasing , however , I think that it may well be that particular health needs , people in West Essex and Harlow in particular which has , for example , a rapidly ageing population and therefore needs facilities had not been planned into the town by way of health erm , that those statistics , those pockets of need are going to get overlooked in a much more large and vast disparate statistical picture , stretching from Hertfordshire right across to the coast I think it 's too big a sample and we need to make sure that our specific needs are n't going to be overlooked in all that . |
17 | It is a feature of modernity that our elder citizens are considered to be a nuisance to be dealt with as quietly and unobtrusively as possible . |
18 | When they realised that our combined ages was nudging 150 years , one wag said that if he reached our age he would settle for soloing over a stile ! |
19 | Our combined age is 151 so we think we can cope with any problems life may throw at us ! ’ he jokes . |
20 | SOME OF OUR FINEST HAMS ARE NUT ROASTS . |
21 | Some of our finest landscapes are designated as National Parks . |
22 | Our high-flying 18-year-olds are superbly grounded in their specialist areas , compared to their counterparts in other Western countries , but we seem incapable of producing engineers with a fluent second language , or historians who understand information technology . |
23 | Our eight finalists are : Mrs Helen McNulty from Armagh , Northern Ireland ; Mrs Rose Collier , Liverpool ; Mrs Ann Mooney , Manchester ; Mrs Pauline Rushforth , Wakefield ; Mrs Mary Edwards , Prestatyn , N. Wales ; Mr Brian Aveyard , Nottingham ; Mrs Shirley Lukic , Peterborough ; Mrs Gladys Mortlock , from London . |
24 | Today , most of our deaf children are being educated in units attached to ordinary schools , under various names such as ‘ deaf units ’ , ‘ partially hearing/partially deaf units ’ , ‘ units for the hearing-impaired ’ . |
25 | Ahmed : What I found really exciting and stimulating about our Working Party was that there was a great deal of openness , a willingness to listen and learn on the part of all the people . |
26 | Our normal response is to look for a comparatively minor adjustment near the periphery ; if we can not see the cake when we expected to we would normally suppose , perhaps , that someone has eaten it , rather than that cakes now have a tendency to dematerialize . |
27 | FO Where our normal limits are 20 . |
28 | Strawson 's claim is that abnormal behaviour , as its name implies , is defined negatively as behaviour towards which our normal responses are not fitting . |
29 | Yeah but you do n't know what our normal conversation is do you ? |
30 | The normal upper limits of oesophageal acid and alkaline exposure as defined by the 90 percentile in our normal volunteers was 5.1% and 8.4% respectively . |