Example sentences of "our [noun] of [noun sg] [conj] we " in BNC.

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1 This was our baptism of fire and we learned many lessons .
2 It is perhaps fortunate from our point of view that we can pin ourselves , in so far as we are talking about an inset , to the actual deposit copy of Ryedale District Council , when they did get the matter right , but no body apart from them , sir , did so .
3 I , I , I take all the planning and what the officer is saying , but I mean do n't you think it makes more sense from our point of view than we realize .
4 There is no sign of that from our point of view and we tend to be late in the cycle anyway .
5 recognised that the situation might well have been different if , instead of the defendants simply threatening to ‘ black ’ the broadcast they had gone to the B.B.C. and said ‘ We wish it to be established as part of our conditions of employment that we are not required to work on broadcasts to South Africa . ’
6 Our choice of register when we write displays our attitude towards our reader and towards the subject matter we are writing about .
7 We have lost our sense of holiness and we shift in the shadows ; little wonder we fail to understand the significance of atonement !
8 we 've already written , we 've already written last week to the Scottish office , we 've written to our member of parliament and we 've asked him to see if we can get a delay on the date because we 've taken three years to try and get planning consent .
9 We have repeatedly made clear our condemnation of terrorism and we attach much importance to international efforts to counter it .
10 The work of Freud , for example , has so entered our habits of thought that we now label ‘ objective ’ various forms of behaviour which would formerly have been regarded as reactive .
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