Example sentences of "be [prep] our " in BNC.

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1 All of the external verifiers selected to participate in the pilot have been through our induction training and have considerable experience in external verification .
2 Our library girl has been through our cuttings and there is quite a lot about you .
3 There would also have been no organization to employ me had it not been for our foresisters at the turn of the century .
4 How it must have been for our Stone Age grandmothers — swell , oh , oh , pop , look , a little one — oh , it 's dead — oh , I 'm dying , dying ; dead !
5 Paul Lissek , the German coach , said : ‘ We would n't have won the gold medals in the Barcelona Olympics had it not been for our involvement in indoor hockey . ’
6 We are used to the idea of exercises for our muscular body and even breathing exercises but the following are for our major internal organs .
7 Red lights are for our benefit .
8 As my hon. Friend knows , fiscal matters are for our right hon. Friend the Chancellor .
9 In the first place he draws our attention to the fact that not all our desires are for our own future states of affairs , desires can be impersonal .
10 It does this by insisting that a belief which is not about our own sensory states ( immediate experience ) must , if it is to be justified , be justified by appeal to beliefs which are about our own sensory states .
11 We need to be certain that the revelation stems from God ; and we can not be as certain of this as we are of our reason-based knowledge of the particular truth in question .
12 The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ .
13 And the same goes for those creatures like them who are of our kind though not of our species …
14 The mink has had a chequered relationship with us , but we must remember that the changes are of our own making .
15 It claims to have been made ‘ on the advice of prelates ’ as well as of ‘ earls , barons and other faithful subjects of our realm who are of our council ’ , that is to say in the parliament which was then sitting .
16 Americans are proud of their way of life as we are of our own although there are differences , there are many more similarities .
17 We all have habits that we are aware of , but the habits that Alexander referred to are below our level of consciousness .
18 ‘ They 're after our jobs . ’
19 ‘ You 're like our Miss Tilley then , a deaconess . ’
20 Oh yes , yes , no , I think I think that er and I think that you know that particularly the the Mirror Group Newspapers Trustees doing a doing an excellent job you know , but we have n't really got into the into the stock lending er arrangements , but the , the cases those I think are particularly you know important to us you see , because there is a there 's another hundred and fifty nine or a hundred and fifty three million I think of , of writs out at the moment and those I think are the ones where we 're going to really see whether the , the banks dig their heels in or not , you know , I think we 've , we 're rea very early stage , but basically I mean we 've still got eighty , getting on for eighty per cent of the missing monies still missing and we 're into our third , third year .
21 We 're within our depth !
22 ‘ We 're in our sixth year of drought , ’ said farmer Joe van Gundy .
23 No we , we 're in our Lisa 's class .
24 He always makes you feel welcome when you 're round our house .
25 ‘ Feelings ca n't be helped , ’ she told him ; ‘ they 're beyond our control .
26 I 've got to change , then we 're on our way .
27 Charsky tried to call for help , but his voice was frail ; then , to his amazement , he heard a strong voice from somewhere to his left shout : ‘ We 're on our way down !
28 ‘ We 're on our way to the mortuary ourselves , ’ Susan explained .
29 We 're on our own .
30 We 're on our own this time . ’
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