Example sentences of "on our [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nevertheless , I think it is a substantial achievement , er and it reflects well on on our former Director and it reflects well on our staff , that it has been made . |
| 2 | It is no longer something mystical but is seen by some as an internal commentary on our own behaviour ( Gazzaniga 1985 ) . |
| 3 | The extent to which either the adult or child within plays a significant part in our lives depends greatly on our own upbringing . |
| 4 | We , the workers , shall organise large scale production on the basis of what capitalism has already created , relying on our own experience as workers , establishing strict , iron discipline backed up by the state of power of the armed workers . |
| 5 | But I 'm very concerned obviously as a representative of Shropshire on that Committee , I do n't really want to support something which at the end of the day is going to have a detrimental impact on our own service here . |
| 6 | In education we are overly inclined to rely on our own tradition and intuition and to overstate the uniqueness of our particular circumstances ( think of the thousands of teachers with their own stock of test questions in their drawer ) . |
| 7 | Yes , well the economic effect on our own country , well when I say under , er Europe , er , with this proposal that er , we have to open up our markets er for the benefit of the Soviet , er because , that is going to cost er , what they 're , what they 're asking for , not only in Soviet but also across Eastern Europe is that the agricultural market , the steel , and the textile market , all the most sensitive areas , should be opened up to them , and that 's going to shed a , a great increase in unemployment er within the , within the common market . |
| 8 | This new self-awareness , which the contemplation of alien cultures and institutions promotes , throws light on our own past as well as present . |
| 9 | Our efforts to provide Cuba with the petroleum products it needed put a heavy burden on our own shipping system and forced us to order extra tankers from Italy . |
| 10 | You know that Alastair split and cut these planks on our own saw-bed . |
| 11 | One night I remember clearly was when we lost an aircraft and crew at Bourn , not over Germany but back on our own air field , which made it worse . |
| 12 | Yes , I mean you put your finger on an important problem here that we need to discuss and that is that if you concentrate on human beings in general , and this is true on our own society but I , I think it 's true of just about all societies and it 's emphatically true of primal hunting adult societies then men do make a lot of parental investment do n't they ? |
| 13 | ‘ They are our conclusions , based on our own research , our own predispositions , our own framework , our own lack of preconceptions . |
| 14 | Although the machine intelligences we create will be based on our own form of intelligence and an extension of it , we can nevertheless expect them to be alien in many ways . |
| 15 | On our own Stock Exchange the shares of Deutsche Bank , with its tentacles in every corner of Euro-business , have doubled this year and climbed more than 10 per cent in one trading day this week . |
| 16 | The gene , the DNA molecule , happens to be the replicating entity that prevails on our own planet . |
| 17 | The fact that even on our own planet we have creatures — the dolphins and whales — whose intelligence is at the very least comparable with our own makes little impact on people who deny the possible existence of intelligent life on other worlds . |
| 18 | On our own account and in co-operation with many UK universities and research establishments , RBGE scientists have made major contributions to our knowledge of the European flora . |
| 19 | We could become researchers on our own programme — hey what a great idea ! |
| 20 | As we read this book , like many before us , we can not depend on our own strength or understanding , but instead need to be humble and allow God 's Spirit to instruct and guide us . |
| 21 | Book on our own Bet . |
| 22 | Now all our various programmes interact — we are no longer autocrats on our own instrument , but have to observe orchestral behaviour … |
| 23 | But what has saddened me especially was the repeated rumour which I and some friends heard in the 1950s and early 1960s : that Leslie 's plane had been brought down not by the storms nor by enemy action , but by human error on our own side . |
| 24 | Not an unreasonable way to describe a world record breaking dive just completed , not in the sunny Red Sea , or the idyllic Caribbean , but on our own doorstep — in the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 25 | Yet here is a dark continent on our own doorstep , crying out for missionary endeavour . |
| 26 | Interesting buildings are not confined to the ancient , ornate or foreign ; we are shown that there are plenty of ideas on our own doorstep ! |
| 27 | What better place to start than on our own doorstep , with the world famous collections of the Barber Institute ? |
| 28 | This is a horrifying conflict on our own doorstep . |
| 29 | ‘ But the truth is that the threat is here on our own doorstep as well . |
| 30 | We do n't want the problems on our own doorstep cos when the chips are down , we like to go home , and we like to feel safe and if somebody 's entered your premises as an intruder then all of a sudden your security been taken away . |