Example sentences of "our more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motor experience is still unsatisfactory however and the benefits of our more selective underwriting procedures to improve the quality of our portfolio have not yet had their full effect . |
| 2 | Even if the principle of induction in its probabilistic version could be justified , there are further problems facing our more cautious inductivist . |
| 3 | So for many of us , our preferences in particular cases pose the same puzzle as our more comprehensive rejection of the checkerboard solution as a general strategy for resolving differences over principle . |
| 4 | This new legislation adds substantially to the armoury of pre-publication censorship , and together with our more traditional legislation of post-publication censorship , forms a disarming net around freedom of expression . |
| 5 | Of course , these activities would run parallel to our existing system of servicing our more traditional workforce . |
| 6 | What we need at G.W. is a designer who can appeal to a new market of younger customers without losing the loyalty of our more traditional clientele — who are far from all being , ’ he added with a twist of humour , ‘ retired country ladies , as I recall you suggested . ’ |
| 7 | Entitlement theory therefore offers no satisfactory justification of private property in general , and hence , for the purposes of our more limited enquiry , establishes no moral basis for shareholder control over corporate property in particular . |
| 8 | Such a structured form of teaching would not fit easily into our more liberal system of education . |
| 9 | Our more cynical age , though , might suspect that Gilbert 's generosity was motivated by more than spiritual interest in the boy 's welfare ! |
| 10 | Our more immediate concern in this section is with measurement as understood within variable analysis . |
| 11 | This ability is an important part of our more general ability to treat others with respect , and it is therefore a prerequisite of civilization . |
| 12 | As Balinese ethnography has often been invoked , with questionable accuracy , in recent theoretical argument , the research aims to contribute both to this discussion and to our more general understanding of the effects of development and of incorporation within a new nation state on indigenous populations . |
| 13 | The first attitude has been witnessed in the 1930s and during our more recent experience of high unemployment . |
| 14 | So the cat is , after all , not one of our more recent animal companions , but one of our oldest . |
| 15 | Though our more recent notion of a developed science , such as physics or chemistry , is directly descended from this , our conception of how such sciences come about , and the methods of investigation appropriate to them , differs in certain important respects from that of the Aristotelians . |
| 16 | Some of our more charming wayside stations have been sold off as private houses . |
| 17 | We now have the opportunity to demonstrate in practice that our more hybrid approach is better suited to the needs of the next decade . |
| 18 | It is only our more ambivalent age , engaged in the very last mopping-up of the great wet waste which challenged our ancestors , which has begun to question whether the price of progress has been too high . |
| 19 | In our more sceptical age , mystery surrounds especially those crafts which seem to shape our world and deal with matters which seem beyond our control and comprehension . |
| 20 | Our more natural inclination was to hide in the dim recesses of the games shed and carry on enthralling discussions about boyfriends and the origins of the universe . |
| 21 | WHATEVER the British public may think of Buzby , British Telecom 's avian advertising mascot , some of our more natural bird species are clearly impressed . |
| 22 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 23 | The founding myth of neuromythology is that our more detailed knowledge of the nervous system has resulted — or very soon will result — in an increased understanding of the mind , indeed of the very nature of understanding itself . |
| 24 | We shall be continuing our more detailed look at factory shops in a few weeks ' time . |