Example sentences of "our [noun pl] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one of the League 's many incontri , a Milan taxi driver raises the temperature of a quiet meeting by shrieking : ‘ Why the hell should we pay our taxes to that mess in Rome ? |
| 2 | The direction and length of our gaze also conveys information about our attitudes to each other and to what is being said . |
| 3 | My colleague Chairman of the Youth and Community Panel and Policy Panel will speak on our proposals in that regard . |
| 4 | Let's keep our roads safe and tighten motoring law to rid our roads of these death traps once and for all . |
| 5 | This party stands four square against terrorism , and we have set out our policies from this Dispatch Box on many occasions . |
| 6 | Moreover , unlike most medieval letter writers — and , for that matter , even unlike most of us today when we dash off our epistles without much thought about the time — Petrarch ‘ spells out the dates ( including the hour ) with weight and deliberation , as if to stress the importance of taking one 's bearings in time ’ . |
| 7 | We are also establishing a regional presence in the Middle East and Graham Hillier is soon to be taking up residence in Dubai to promote our activities in this region . |
| 8 | Our views on this issue coincide closely with those of the Countryside Council for Wales . |
| 9 | We were disappointed not to have been invited to offer our views on this consultation paper when it was distributed to consultees in January . |
| 10 | Clearly , these republics will apply for admission into the United Nations in due time and we shall define our views at that time . |
| 11 | Few cases are quite as confusing as the zebra 's stripes , but there is always the chance that in a year or so 's time new information will have been gathered that changes our views about some aspect of animal life . |
| 12 | In practice however awareness is unequal , variable , uncertain , with impassable limits even in the case of self-knowledge , so that we can never take the full measure of our reactions from all viewpoints ; like the child wondering whether to risk another helping at dinner , we require an ‘ ought ’ whenever we are losing sight of the reaction at an unsustainable height of awareness . |
| 13 | It may seem that if we succeed in adapting our values to such disturbances instead of losing them altogether , it is because we still retain some vestige of a Christian and liberal moral tradition a memory of ‘ Do unto others … ’ at the roots of social habit , which saves us from the collapse into competing egoisms into which deepening conflicts are perpetually driving us . |
| 14 | I would question this , as I feel we are treading on dangerous ground if we even contemplate trying to impose our values in this way , however strongly we feel personally . |
| 15 | Employing BP Chemicals ’ world-leading proprietary technology , this plant provides us with a strong partner and a platform for attaining growth for our products in this region . |
| 16 | What do they think of us and our opponents at this moment ? |
| 17 | Each letter that is n't answered by our experts on these pages will receive an individual reply from Heather . |
| 18 | We conclude our accounts of each approach by looking at some of its distinctive variants to demonstrate the range of options in the neo-Marxist literature . |
| 19 | ‘ Our discussions at these meetings are minuted , Connie , and as such are published to our members . ’ |
| 20 | We suggest that our discussions about this idea proceed in parallel with Europe 's efforts to achieve by 1992 a common internal market so that plans for interaction turn to page 24 , col 2 |
| 21 | We all have our reasons for this initiative . |
| 22 | for those first few weeks we could n't keep our eyes off each other . |
| 23 | This gripping novels opens our eyes to another world , yet its themes are ones we all know . |
| 24 | In our view , we ought not to shut our eyes to these facts , or mask the dark sides of tsarist activities , or look for a justification for them in the need to protect Russian settlements from nomad onslaughts , and in the voevody 's disobedience to the tsar , etc . |
| 25 | ‘ I can think of one firm that I think had tried to pull the wool over our eyes for many years . |
| 26 | They should be doing that work , if they 're asking us to design a remit , price it and then they 're using that remit to get prices from other people , er I would suggest that , that we perhaps ought to have words with our clients on that basis a and say we 're quite happy to tender in competition but erm i you ought to give it a little bit of thought before you actually put the thing . |
| 27 | Our many years of experience , together with established offices in all the major offshore financial , and yachting , centres enables us to give the best possible services to our clients of all nationalities . |
| 28 | MAS is built on these principles and , backed by the national and international practices of KPMG , is ideally placed to assist our clients in all aspects of the merger and acquisition process . |
| 29 | ‘ We may have to cut our losses in that direction . ’ |
| 30 | We looked down our noses at this pair of student hicks . |