Example sentences of "our [noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe the excellence of our people and our projects will shine through . |
| 2 | And I only hope that in the end our roads will become so clogged with all these fume-belching cars and lorries that everyone will give them up and start going by train again . |
| 3 | As we near the end of the 20th century our horizons must extend well beyond our own national frontiers , to our new relationships which are developing fast in the European Community and to our obligations and opportunities in the exciting , but often perilous circumstances of the post Cold War world . |
| 4 | After asking them all about their latest film , their hobbies , their lovers , wives , husbands , children , and anything else of interest , our researchers will come back with their tape-recorded notes , pick out the best bits of their interview and write up a biography . |
| 5 | Our eyes can detect only certain wavelengths of this spectrum , but we have built machines which can respond to other wavelengths . |
| 6 | Just as our eyes can see only that narrow band of electromagnetic frequencies that natural selection equipped our ancestors to see , so our brains are built to cope with narrow bands of sizes and times . |
| 7 | Hopefully our readers will pass on the message to as many people as possible , with the hope that this particular con man , and others like him , are stopped in their tracks . |
| 8 | Maybe our MEPs could help here . |
| 9 | Fashions in education will come and go , politicians , local and national , will peddle their transitory wares , but the long-term effectiveness of our schools will depend ultimately upon there being sufficient teachers of quality to work in the nation 's classrooms . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a special game for everyone and I 'm sure our youngsters will come through . |
| 11 | Now the water industry is set to spend billions of pounds in improvements , the likely result of which is that our bills will go up by at least 50% over the next few years . |
| 12 | Telling us all how we would have to adapt in various minor ways to changing circumstances , but that basically our lives would carry on very much as normal — and it was weird , I was wanting them all to believe him , and him to be telling the truth . |
| 13 | But our feet will come down like that . |
| 14 | Our guests will stay either in the original hotel or the modern gastehaus which is about 100 yards away . |
| 15 | Perhaps our guests could wait there ? ’ |
| 16 | MMC also said that in preparing its business plan each of our businesses should carry out a strategic review of its options in conjunction with a product/market sector analysis . |
| 17 | Because most of our patients were men ( 96% ) , our observations may apply only to the male population . |
| 18 | ‘ Visits by our officers can result either from the use of detector vans or follow-ups from computer records of who has and who does n't have a TV licence . ’ |
| 19 | I have little doubt , however , that , despite Britain 's reservations , our partners will move forward to economic and monetary union , and to the creation of a single currency . |
| 20 | None of us had foretold that our games would end up on life-support systems in intensive care . |
| 21 | One of our men will take over until we get you back here . |
| 22 | If asthmatics with reflux were somehow more readily influenced to have endoscopy than asthmatics without reflux , our results would apply only to a selected group of asthmatics , and selection bias would be present . |
| 23 | As a result , happiness and fulfilment in our lives never come ready-made , but the emotional environment we give to our children can contribute enormously to their growth . |
| 24 | Our greatest fear is that one of our children will end up in a body bag . |
| 25 | Therefore , when it comes a cropper , there is a tendency among the rest of us to enjoy a quiet chortle , even if suspecting that all our wallets will end up lighter as a result . |
| 26 | That is not provided in the bill , the private sector will not invest , and our railways will go on getting more unreliable . |
| 27 | It was a great pleasure meeting you a few months ago and I should like to feel our paths might cross again some time . |
| 28 | ‘ I think our paths will cross again , Shannon Lea , ’ he said evenly . |
| 29 | Our congratulations should go out from the House to the national health service for what it is achieving . |
| 30 | The films were real ‘ bad ’ — plenty action and thing — and with Alfred there , our thoughts would gather together and sweep across the screen creating Trinidad out of China . |