Example sentences of "of our [noun sg] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , on the other hand , it is not clear by established principles of our law that the council has the right to sue in libel for alleged injury to its reputation , so that this court must decide whether under the common law that right is properly available to the council as a local government authority , then , as is not in dispute , this court must , in so deciding , have regard to the principles stated in the Convention and in particular to article 10 : see Reg. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , Ex parte Brind [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 696 . |
| 2 | On the basis of our experience and the conflicting findings reported we feel a ‘ typical patient ’ syndrome for Dieulafoy 's disease remains speculative . |
| 3 | By this arrangement we could position Viking almost to the nearest few inches with all the lines taut , a degree of control which was most essential in view of our position and the variations of tide and swell . |
| 4 | Colleagues we have an opportunity today to vote this document down , to vote against it because the future of our union and the interests of our members is at risk . |
| 5 | vote against it because the future of our union and the interests of our members is at risk . |
| 6 | By 1915 expenditure was £263 , by 1916 £420 : ‘ nothing shows more clearly the growth of our work than the way in which this help from the government has doubled , trebled , even quadrupled since the school started four years ago ’ ( South West Ham Health Society 1916–17 ) . |
| 7 | The firm 's position on this is set out in detail in Chapter 9 of the CFM but , in summary , concerns over possible limitations on the scope of our work and the possible requirement to return material supporting any advice given , it is our preferred policy to use the form of wording set out at 1106.4 . |
| 8 | Even if we meet with fellow humans from other parts of our globe where the spoken and written languages are different , the common , basic sense of meaning which we carry in our minds is enough for us to communicate through gesture and signs and to know that , should we care to , we can learn each other 's language . |
| 9 | Underneath it , a little table bore blue candles , statues of Our Lady and the saints , and miniature vases of daisies , all arranged on a bit of old sheet with a cross painted on the front . |
| 10 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |
| 11 | Then he whispered ‘ Callanish , Callanish , from you come the greatest of our kind and the strongest , and none of yours can die here . |
| 12 | Certainly , we are surrounded by unmistakable signs of the decreasing security of our culture and the fact that more and more of its erstwhile vehicles are becoming its enemies . |
| 13 | It would also help to accelerate the depoliticisation of our army and the promotion of officers on the basis of their professional capabilities . |
| 14 | Figure 4.2 summarises the nature of our concern and the way in which we view the interrelation of the four modes of language . |
| 15 | And somehow , from the warmth we all feel for the soundtracks of our adolescence and the prevalent loathing some of us feel for the current torpor of the charts , he has managed to fashion something comically incendiary . |
| 16 | The interests of Wales , Scotland and other regions are different because our geography , the nature of our agriculture and the size of our farms are different . |
| 17 | All of us have ideas to improve the quality of our service and the way we do our jobs . |
| 18 | Composing himself , Sir Michael pressed on : ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the last 10 years in the well-being of our country and the competitiveness of our industries and … |
| 19 | Salvadorean women have two main demands : the right to the self-determination of our country and the other , an end to our oppression as women . |
| 20 | Let us fulfil that purpose , not for own advantage , but out of our duty to the people of our country and the people of our world . |
| 21 | Not to do so would be a betrayal of our hope that the founding principles of the National Health Service can survive the government 's reforms . |
| 22 | Internal evidence in regard to such details as the use of motor cars or the social idiom and manners of the characters suggests the first two decades of our century but the wise reader will accept a certain anonymity as an integral part of the fiction . |
| 23 | Words , the authors argue , are really a barrier between us and the world ; we can not escape from the structure of our language , and the structure of our language and the structure of the world are far from being identical . |
| 24 | We 'd immediately dismiss 5% of our workforce and the same would happen at the larger timber firms throughout the UK . |
| 25 | The challenge in 1992/93 has been to do more with less ; we lost 8% of our establishment when the Council suffered with the profession a substantial reduction in its planned revenues . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ Our strengths are the freehouse image , the quality of our property and the standards set by our managers . |
| 27 | My own view is that for readers to be promised even a glimmer of understanding as to the origins of our world and the universe was tempting enough , but the further promise that it was to be told briefly was irresistible . |
| 28 | There are times in the life of our soul and the summer season is respecter of it , times when we 're worried , when we hit a difficult patch . |
| 29 | the unhindered celebration of our sexuality and the act of loving other men spiritually , romantically , and physically is the necessary first step toward liberation . |
| 30 | We ask that You will guide her in all her work as a leader of our nation and the Commonwealth , and that you will bless her in the life of her home and family . |