Example sentences of "[to-vb] our [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My answer to this criticism was that teachers of English are virtually unanimous in their enthusiasm for literature , but need persuasion if they are to accept our recommendations for the teaching of grammar , Standard English and knowledge about language . |
| 2 | There is no simple answer but it is generally advisable to describe the disappointments in broad terms as they affect the whole school ( ‘ the LEA has been unable to grant our request for extra welfare assistance ’ ) and present the successes individually but anonymously ( ‘ through the efforts of the governors a reading aid has been provided for a partially sighted pupil ’ ) . |
| 3 | In the short time available to her on 16th October Hilary could do no more than give a very sketchy account of her visit but enough to whet our appetites for more . |
| 4 | Government will work in partnership to secure our heritage for the benefit of future generations . |
| 5 | Water and Ventilation has recently undergone a period of consolidation and the branch structure has been altered in order to meet our needs for 1992 , this is already bearing fruit as the most recent quarter produced some great sales . |
| 6 | ‘ We were both more at ease , I think , when we were not required to hide our mistrust for one another . |
| 7 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 8 | My silly wee sister says she 's going to clean our shoes for Camphill . |
| 9 | And just as you have in the past answered our call for money , so you are now ready to answer our call for people . |
| 10 | She might have been trying to reach our Post for help , but she had crawled under the last parapet , and could go no farther . |
| 11 | We are now in a position to re-formulate our criteria for deciding whether an anomalous sentence is semantically or grammatically deviant : |
| 12 | In the woods between Lāmri and U hu where the path drops steeply down , the stream had frozen solid right across the path and we had to pick our way for half a mile , across the ice . |
| 13 | ‘ I also tried to say that our unity was in the future when we believe that all things will be gathered together and completed in Christ and that therefore our policies of today have to reflect our longings for the future . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ We will do it to express our derision for this Treasury bench of limpets , clinging on to office after breaking every promise that got them into it . |
| 15 | We would take this opportunity to express our wish for continued cooperation and communication between management and staff and welcome this news sheet as a vehicle for this . |
| 16 | In spite of this , we have continued to invest in existing facilities and in extending our range of services in order to strengthen our position for the future . |
| 17 | In chapter 27 , when Jacob steals his blessing , the writer goes to great lengths , as we have indicated already , to evoke our sympathy for Esau , and to help us share his anguish . |
| 18 | ‘ His US lawyer contacted ours and said he wanted to swop our daughter for a guarantee that he would n't be arrested ! |
| 19 | In short , restoring ordinary people as part of the we who run things , rather than the them for obstacles to be regulated , managed , I fear even duped and certainly simply left out , and the chief place to focus our search for pragmatic coalitions and cooperative democracy must be in our local communities . |
| 20 | We do n't want to have every last stop pulled out on our behalves in a last , heroic effort to extend our lives for a few more days or weeks or months . |
| 21 | ‘ We have to submit our plans for a national scheme to the EC Commission by July 1994 and it must be operational by January 1995 . |
| 22 | ‘ It is , after all , what we brought you here for — to resolve our problems for us . ’ |
| 23 | To dispel another myth : we have not entirely evolved from this animal ability to use our senses for survival . |
| 24 | David Brush , and we we 're still wa we 're waiting on a Lily , so I think we might be asking Naomi to do our Lily for u |
| 25 | Half of us could continue to drown ourselves in usquebaugh and self-pity ( ‘ Here 's tae us , / Wha 's like us ? / Damn few/ All deid ’ ) , the other half could relax , relieved that the English would be continuing to do our thinking for us . |
| 26 | For there is a formula which generates the ‘ deviant ’ continuation from the same early stages ; since both series start in the same way , we can not appeal to the way in which one starts in order to justify our preference for its way of going on . |
| 27 | The level of support from all the centres involved has been most encouraging and we would like to record our thanks for the co-operation and hospitality , which we have received ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ We believe in local democracy and , unlike the Tories , we are prepared to fight our corner for local government . ’ |
| 29 | They are , I believe , some of the places to start our search for features of modern machines that might be suggestive as models or analogues of consciousness . |
| 30 | Until we begin to recognise our responsibility for the current situation , we will not come close to finding a solution that will lead African families to choose to have smaller families . |