Example sentences of "our [noun] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the cold ( the temperature was about 30 F below zero ) our tracking of the wanted man continued throughout that night , and he was captured , as he slept , by Doherty in an unused farm building the following day . |
| 2 | If there is a standard of comparison for the USSR 's wartime losses , it lies in McNamara 's statistics , rather than in our experience of the Second World War . |
| 3 | Our experience of the average guitarist is that they know what they want and they wo n't be fooled into buying fresh air simply on the strength of a good review ! |
| 4 | I advise him and others to be extremely reticent in proceeding to the supposedly automatic system of introducing guillotine motions , especially after our experience of the past few years under the Government . |
| 5 | Light , of course , is an expression of our experience of the electromagnetic energy field itself . |
| 6 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 7 | We would stress that the broad lines of development which we propose in our description of the 10 levels under this attainment target will require flexible interpretation since we recognise that language development is not linear but recursive , with pupils returning repeatedly to the same aspects of competence and reinforcing their skills on each occasion . |
| 8 | For once , the UK is in the good books of the European Space Agency ( ESA ) for our support of the European Remote Sensing ( ERS ) programme , which will use the most complex satellites it has ever attempted to build . |
| 9 | On the contrary , nothing from our coverage of the Communist party and its Peace Committee gave us grounds to suspect that they were manipulating C.N.D. |
| 10 | Small babies always need a lot of luggage — nappies , jars , bottles , wipes — but you can keep it to a minimum with our checklist of the bare essentials which you 'll find in page 18 . |
| 11 | Often , we seem to be spoiled for choice and hampered , even paralysed , by our fear of the unknown . |
| 12 | But there is nowhere else that we might get our conception of the physical world from , other than perception . |
| 13 | With all these formal and informal constraints , we can see that pure freedom for the individual actor is very unlikely ; considering all these expectations and controls that surround us , Berger 's portrayal of society as a prison begins to seem plausible : ‘ Our considerations of the sociological perspective have led us to a point where society looks more like a gigantic Alcatraz than anything else ’ ( Berger , 1966 , p. 107 ) . |
| 14 | Avoid the sort of ending used in this essay on " Genres of the Old English Poetry " : And in this way we have come to the end of our characterisation of the main genres of the oldest vernacular poetry in Western Europe ; poetry which achieved so great variety over the 8th , 9th , and 10th centuries . |
| 15 | Catching up , however badly , our recognition of the decisive tension between eye and ear . |
| 16 | ‘ Through our recognition of the Public Lending Right , we have seen that libraries are not just the repositories of our uniquely rich heritage but resource centres for our communities , important to the quality of our lives . |
| 17 | ( It would be tedious to write it out each time , but the italicized phrase in brackets represents our recognition of the constructed signal that Iago emits . ) |
| 18 | Assumptions 1 and 2 embody our characterization of the open shop union . |
| 19 | This positive facilitating function should not be lost sight of in our study of the negative controlling function . |
| 20 | It is this increasingly autonomous nature of population change that prompts us to tackle this subject first in our review of the broad geographical patterns underlying the changes affecting individual places . |
| 21 | Our review of the further education sector in Wales reveals a situation which has changed considerably during the past twelve years or so . |
| 22 | Children play beneath the Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception , Panjim . |
| 23 | I went to the Santuario , lit a candle to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary — an act that every Fontanellatese performs when in need of comfort or help — and prayed hard . |
| 24 | Much of the credit for the remarkable change in the attitudes of the Canadian public towards the St Lawrence belugas must go to ecologist Leone Pippard , commonly known as Our Lady of the White Whales . |
| 25 | Leone Pippard , Our Lady of the White Whales |
| 26 | Just after half-past eight on the morning of 3 January a small group of men and women entered the porch of Our Lady of the Seven Dolours in the Fulham Road . |
| 27 | At that date , before its modernisation , Our Lady of the Seven Dolours was still the sumptuous gothic-rococo creation of the fashionable Victorian architect J. S. Hanson . |
| 28 | This time the message was addressed to his friend John Macnab , who was among those kneeling before the altar of Our Lady of the Seven Dolours . |
| 29 | While they dispersed , the services at Crowthorne , County Galway and Our Lady of the Seven Dolours came to an end . |
| 30 | Here 's our pick of the best . |