Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [prep] our " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are emerging , however , a few bona fide cases where licensing is the only means of making any sales and where it is in our general interest to be in a market in anticipation of that market situation easing at a later date . |
| 2 | Does that rain mean it 's off the coast or it 's in our area ? |
| 3 | I was just gon na say , I I think we should possibly stop blaming the media or whatever actually happens and perhaps echo what the the lady earlier said , I think that it 's in our hands , we 're the women that could make this happen ! |
| 4 | How he could do so at all is something beyond our finite comprehension , and the full significance of the intersection of eternity with time in Jesus is only grasped along with the awareness that it is beyond our power to understand or explain . |
| 5 | even such persons who worry about the ‘ lost ’ of land as Erik Eckholm , acknowledge that it is in our power to have more land if there is a will to work for it . |
| 6 | The wisdom of the ancient world saw that it is in our points of greatest personal weakness that we are most defensive , and where we compensate addictively in our emotions . |
| 7 | Most of us know that it is in our best interests to play it — we 've never been taught the lines , but we soon catch on to what we 're supposed to say . |
| 8 | Somehow , the châteaux owners have been able to persuade us that it is in our interest to pay for the wine before it has been bottled and to finance its cellar maturation , which in the case of the better wines takes from ten to fifteen or even twenty years . |
| 9 | It is precisely because British farmers have a competitive advantage in the production of sheepmeat , beef , cereals , dairy and other produce that it is in our interests to have a truly and genuinely single free and open common market in the EEC in agriculture produce . |
| 10 | Also , baseline urinary sodium excretion was higher in the patients studied by Mathiesen et al than it was in our current and previous patients . |
| 11 | And it 's on our shoulders . ’ |
| 12 | Because it 's in our hands , it 's in our children 's hands and it 's in our grandchildren 's hands . |
| 13 | They are not well off , but they are not on the breadline and it is to our credit that we have a structure that supports people when they are between jobs . |
| 14 | Well erm in our organisation and it was in our submission that we felt that it er it should belong wholly to erm the employer erm it should belong to the beneficiaries as well , because we feel very strongly that the pension is deferred pay , it is deferred salary , and therefore they should have an ownership of part ownership in that fund . |
| 15 | Hurry up cos it 's near our turn to be serv where 's my purse . |
| 16 | But it is in our own interests to act as if they were there . |
| 17 | But it is in our view , government policy to provide for development needs . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's in their interests to address the issue and it 's for them to decide whether change is cost effective , but it 's in our interests too . ’ |
| 19 | because we 've had no bloody calls have we , but it 's like our Chronicle around here , it comes out tonight |
| 20 | ‘ We think as you 're out o ’ pocket enough , what wi' buyin' the timber , an' it 's to our advantage , ’ a carpenter explained — the man who had been cheated by the coal merchant . |
| 21 | Because it 's in our hands , it 's in our children 's hands and it 's in our grandchildren 's hands . |
| 22 | So the least , if fact I I 'm fairly safe in saying , that the least commission you can earn on an ad , providing it 's in our you know you 're taking it from our price system not discounted it , |
| 23 | Now the second problem is that we all value our freedoms and we the greatest thing that we all have in our lives , whether it 's in work , or whether it 's in our marriages or just in our social life , we all value our freedom and initiative , we want to be able to use our own initiative . |
| 24 | These frustrations will pass when we adopt a very positive approach and with practice become more and more adept at using the ball when it is in our possession . |
| 25 | We thus tend to think of ourselves as machines , and when things go wrong treatment is organized along similar lines as it is for our machines — servicing , repairing and patching as dictated by the appearance of aches , pains and loss of function . |
| 26 | This is as true for the business world as it is in our leisure moments . |
| 27 | ‘ Lots of people say it must be easy for my family to carry on in music and that I must have taught them everything — but I feel they just inherited their love of music as it 's in our blood . ’ |
| 28 | Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary . |
| 29 | Consequently death is no longer in the midst of life as it was for our ancestors and still is in many Third World countries . |
| 30 | This makes the accountability of the police as important here as it was in our earlier discussion of their general powers . |