Example sentences of "our [adj] [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the objectors , Barnes 's decision justified our persistent assertion that the Chernobyl accident was central to any assessment of nuclear power in Britain . |
| 2 | I also learnt the difference between a Helio Courier and a Pilatus Porter , two types of STOL aircraft often used in Ecuador ; the former small and cheap to charter , the latter costing £150 an hour but able to carry a collecting team of three people , with our usual equipment and the 500 litres of petrol needed for a long river trip . |
| 3 | Against the background of this account of perception as something indirect , with ideas figuring as intermediaries between our minds and material things , Malebranche discusses what reason we have for our usual supposition that the material world exists at all . |
| 4 | He also declared that he agreed " with our European allies that an American military presence in Europe is essential — and that it should not be tied solely to the Soviet military presence in eastern Europe " . |
| 5 | We must continue to put forward an alternative framework within which British farmers can take commercial decisions over the best way to use their skills and resources , play their part in sustaining our rural economy and the countryside , and compete fairly within Europe . |
| 6 | The reason we want regionalisation is that we are the only country within the European Community as it now stands , bar Luxembourg and Ireland , not to have regional Government , regional co-ordination of our economic policies and a proper role for the regions to link across Europe . |
| 7 | The recent changes in Europe are having a great effect on the practice of law in this country , and the 1992 process will change our economic climate and the type of legal service which clients in this country and abroad will need . |
| 8 | It has long been one of the curiosities of our political history that the previous all-time record was set by a party that actually lost the election , Clement Attlee 's Labour Party in 1951 . |
| 9 | Much is contingent on the intelligence of our political systems and the chances of world history which may yet give us such a fright that something commensurable to the strides made by the creation of the UN in 1945 will be made possible . |
| 10 | In this chapter I argue that the legislative principle is so much part of our political practice that no competent interpretation of that practice can ignore it . |
| 11 | We should consider whether taking on this role , in a context of inadequate overall expenditure , might not increase our administrative workload and the level of stress from our clinical work and adversely affect our relationships with our patients , our staff , and each other . |
| 12 | The ultimate origin of our seven-day week and the restrictions for long imposed on Sunday activities can thus be traced back to the Babylonians . |
| 13 | Never mind the exploitation and atrocities wreaked on whole countries in order that the British could plunder and fill their coffers from our raw materials and the sweat of our cheap labour . |
| 14 | But the differences between our unplanned speech and the language we write are still there . |
| 15 | Our top attraction and a must for adults and children alike , with pigs , cattle , sheep , horses , poultry and baby animals in the original farm buildings close to the Hall . |
| 16 | Hugh you have shown throughout all of your work a deep concern for the people working abroad for our partner churches and for our ecumenical relations and the need to keep these matters to the fore of the church and also of our country . |
| 17 | We were all most impressed with our German hosts and the pride that they obviously had in the town . |
| 18 | Apart from making the links between our damp housing and the destruction of the rainforest , I started to see that our own society could be transformed if we in Britain were able to adopt the revolutionary popular health care system developed in the Third World . |
| 19 | We began by studying the Bible and trying to relate what it said to our daily lives and the problems of the community . |
| 20 | In practice , the sleep/wake cycle seems to exert an important effect upon many of our daily rhythms and the timing of many of them is determined by the time of mid-sleep or the middle of our waking hours . |
| 21 | To achieve this goal teachers need to be academics in the broadest sense of the word ; not simply a graduate in a traditional discipline but someone who is able to use the richness of our cultural past and the opportunities offered by our multicultural present to challenge children 's thinking and , by so doing , to open up for them avenues of discovery . |
| 22 | Indeed , according to Devereux , such is the state of our cultural orthodoxy that the consciousness field of the Earth , if that is what , at root , this subtle energy is , can really only be experienced in altered states . |
| 23 | These are the grounds for our repeated assertions that the designer of the unit must ensure that it only demands an achievable extension of the repertoire of transactions of the teachers for whom it is intended . |
| 24 | In the light of the experience of two hundred assessment panels , it is our confirmed view that an approach in which a whole school can and will adjust to individual need , without prejudice to majority rights , can offer a viable alternative to ‘ sin bins ’ or the like . |
| 25 | To note a possibility to which we shall return in a moment , it is allowed that a possible world w " might be more like our actual world than a possible world w " even though the laws of our world are to some extent suspended or do not exist in w " and are intact in w " . |
| 26 | Simple definitions are : ‘ changes in the environment that demand adjustment in our behaviour ’ or ‘ imbalances between our personal resources and the demands being made upon us ’ . |
| 27 | I would suggest that a sexual problem might best be defined as an obstacle to the satisfaction of sexual need — that need which arises in us partly from innate instinct and urge , partly from the circumstances of any given time , and which is tempered by our personal upbringing and development , our moral outlook and the social norms to which we subscribe . |
| 28 | Given the British Government 's determination to provide official aid to democratic countries — we are seeing the emergence of a growing number of them — does my hon. Friend agree that it would be proper and popular over the next five years to halve the gap between our official aid and the United Nations target ? |
| 29 | It is a measure of the tension and complexities of our contemporary society that the police have gradually been transformed from a universal corpus of ordinary police officers performing all manner of general duties , including public order maintenance , to one which now in part approaches the quasi-military-order police model of continental Europe and elsewhere . |
| 30 | As we have seen , the impact of a very large meteorite or cometary nucleus caused sufficient damage to our global climate that the dinosaurs and much of the rest of the existing lifeforms were extinguished . |