Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] our [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two further characteristics which separate our conception of sexuality from other notions . |
| 2 | Each of the 12 speakers who accepted our invitation to be here has been told that they have seven minutes to address the conference . |
| 3 | This need has considerable implications for those activities which affect our environment , for instance by polluting it or creating visual eyesores . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ If elected , I commit myself to ensuring that a larger and stronger Labour opposition will challenge ceaselessly policies which damage our economy and divide our society . |
| 5 | The second purpose is to show how the beliefs and values which organize our society are produced by the history of the social formation . |
| 6 | So too with the two ingredients which constitute our life principle , the rational and the irrational ; the rational which belongs to mind and reason is of the masculine gender , the irrational , the province of sense , is of the feminine . |
| 7 | We had practical help too from hotels , stores and businesses in our City Centre Parish , as well as from Scotsman Publications , and we now acknowledge our gratitude to those companies who answered our call for help . |
| 8 | ‘ After we came out of prayers we had our breakfast , and went upstairs to make the beds and do the bedrooms . |
| 9 | So have dozens of other climbers who adopt our community 's traditional response to an inadequately justified prohibition . |
| 10 | In Shklovsky 's view , Sterne 's Tristram Shandy consists of a series of violations of literary conventions which draw our attention to the forms of fiction ; in so doing it transforms formal questions into content . |
| 11 | As we walked into our first service at Queens Park , we immediately found a congregation of loving Christians who welcomed our family warmly into an atmosphere of worship and praise to the Lord . |
| 12 | My best memory when I was at Primary School was that I was a member of a Gymnastics club and for many weeks we rehearsed our routine to do in front of the school and parents . |
| 13 | After some 10 days we received our order back from Bailey Distribution Ltd with a memo asking for a new cheque made out to them , since they could not transfer the original cheque due because it was crossed . |
| 14 | I think almost daily there were discussions between our two shop stewards and the quarry owners about you know , levels of production , expected targets , increase in production and all this , and er I think you know through those daily discussions we made our side of the argument known and we we told him that we 'd work to rule if things were n't proper and if we did n't like it . |
| 15 | Tutors posed questions which refocused our attention on relevant information in our work . |
| 16 | Far from being a romantic reaction against science , this represents an effort to make people recognize that the scientific concepts which permeate our society have implications far beyond the immediate domain of their technical application , and that they are rooted in seemingly more primitive modes of thought such as story-telling . |
| 17 | However , little things which affect our vanity often influence us more strongly than major things which could affect our health . |
| 18 | What we require are canonical structures which allow our study of the Renaissance to include texts which speak , to use Bauthumley 's words , for those things ‘ meane and contemptible ’ as well as for those ‘ high and mighty ’ . |
| 19 | Might the roots of this crisis lie , not among the victims of poverty who are now being blamed , but in the political priorities which devote our wealth to the destruction of life , and leave nothing over with which to care for the economic casualties of Thatcherism and Majorism ? |
| 20 | Although we both have circadian rhythms which divide our time up into days , the fly lives its day at a much faster pace than we do . |
| 21 | Most of us are labouring under beliefs which limit our potential , or create personal trauma and suffering , or which deprive us of the magic and joy of being alive . |
| 22 | The five stories which catch our eye will win the author a pair of tickets and may appear in the magazine in future months . |
| 23 | The relationship of the citizen to the state is informed by the democratic ideal ; contract and impersonal technical hierarchy are the principles which govern our work and exchange relationships ; and the ideal of community informs and structures relations between friends and within the family . |
| 24 | It is also perfectly valid to use data about other cultures to show that , because these cultures work on other principles than the principles which govern our society , the principles are historically specific and not universal and unchangeable . |
| 25 | Keeping to back lanes we made our way down to the river . |
| 26 | Notwithstanding the difficulties we encountered our experience in Ireland has been positive ’ . |
| 27 | But the ordinary events of life — illness , bereavement , infirmity — all heighten our urge to behave in ways which echo our childhood needs . |
| 28 | We cling to the symbols which give our life meaning and help us in answering this question . |
| 29 | I recently attended a meeting of voluntary environmental bodies who share our alarm about the potential environmental impacts of this scheme . |
| 30 | All of us , the overweight as well as the slim , have some body controls which limit our eating capacity . |