Example sentences of "and ours is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We lag behind the Continent , and ours is not a very visual culture anyway . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We have quite a number of trees with Tree Preservation Orders on them , ’ he said , ‘ and ours is a very wide area where we could do with more wardens . |
| 3 | ‘ You always get the most informed political chatter there with the waiters , which is n't surprising as India 's is the biggest democracy in the world and ours is the oldest , ’ says Mrs Nicholson . |
| 4 | The San Francisco Museum is loaning us their beautiful Dirck Bouts ‘ Madonna and Child ’ that was done from the same cartoon or pattern as ours , the main difference being that theirs has a brocade background and ours is plain . |
| 5 | His army 's just a day away from here , and ours is still scattered over half Belgium . |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes in a small community — and ours is very small — passions which in a wider context would be dissipated become distilled and reduced to poison . |
| 7 | I , it , it was interesting actually because I mean Nor Northallerton is the e is the office at risk in a sense because when they get a fourth of anything , theirs is relatively more and ours is relatively less . |
| 8 | As Paris et al performed their measurements by instant manometry using the solid or liquid bolus , the difference between their results and ours is entirely attributable to the positive effect of the arrival of the liquid or solid bolus in the segment of colon in their studies , while in our patients the propulsive waves were in response to the contents of the colonic segment at the time . |
| 9 | B : yes A : and ours is the third house on the left . |
| 10 | Now , nobody er er , a at this stage at the er Financial Resources Committee er , challenge us on this figure , I think we will just stage of of doing arith arithmetic of adding it up , but no doubt that the staff will be comparing what going to be , er what within a but have prepared for next year with what we 're supposed to do this year and ours is an increase of another percent . |
| 11 | We moaned about Jeffs , and ours is just as bad ! |
| 12 | and ours is thirty two pound a year Wendy |