Example sentences of "our [noun sg] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our enthusiasm for flying we should not lose sight of the fact that it is a voluntary occupation and therefore subject to the normal law of supply and demand . |
| 2 | Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle . |
| 3 | Because our course for abolishing the poll tax provides a guarantee that it can be done , because we shall pick up an existing system that we know will work . |
| 4 | Our framework for understanding this is , as with social distance , based firmly within the literature of second language learning . |
| 5 | When we destroy this ‘ genetic bank ’ we may also kill our hope for feeding our planet in the future . |
| 6 | Our criterion for assessing the models is simple . |
| 7 | The White Paper marks a step change in our programme for reforming the public sector . |
| 8 | " Ringo 's accepted our proposal for repeating Wallace 's search with the Bugis pirates for the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 9 | It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility . |
| 10 | Our awareness of the area under discussion , and our capacity for exercising choice , will increase through the effort of applying them , and balancing them against each other . |
| 11 | ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head . |
| 12 | our sensibility is deepened and enlarged and thereby our capacity for responding sensitively to the world . |
| 13 | To help in discovering the organisation and the capabilities of our faculty for perceiving speech , we need to be able to produce very small and finely-controlled differences in speech sounds , and experimental phonetics has made much use of speech produced by machines called speech synthesisers . |
| 14 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 15 | Luckily my mother was out of the room at the time , or Dawn and I might have been sent to our room for giving her precious cat a heart attack . |
| 16 | I am writing to confirm our booking for filming at the Old Royal Observatory on Wednesday 7 June from 9.00 to 11.00 am . |
| 17 | It is these that provide our basis for living , life scripts upon which we base our responses to all new situations and circumstances . |
| 18 | was this our punishment for attempting to paddle on a Sunday ? |
| 19 | We tend to take our water for granted , a turn of the tap and we have all we need , but we should consider more this most important mineral , without which we could not exist , the dry summer of 1976 proving how much we owe to water companies and the men who operate them . |
| 20 | We will set out our agenda for changing Britain for good — our radical |
| 21 | At that time , the target of the campaign was the Glasgow District Council who were responsible as our landlord for keeping our flats in good repair . |
| 22 | May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ? |
| 23 | Our strategy for achieving these goals is clear : |
| 24 | Brooke-Rose follows structuralists and post-structuralists in their belief that language is the only tool we have at our disposal for apprehending reality , and that linguistic structures have a formative effect on the mind . |
| 25 | What is our mechanism for keeping up to date ? |
| 26 | So our schema for representing that knowledge should be reflected in the concepts in accordance with which we analyse actual accounts . |
| 27 | That was our prize for writing an essay , but he was a human being , this this teacher , he seemed to be so friendly towards us , you know . |
| 28 | We are grateful to our union for making this possible , and for sponsoring the retired members in this way ever since . |
| 29 | The military called on all citizens ‘ to share our concern for securing peace and to support our efforts for this . |
| 30 | The military called on all citizens ‘ to share our concern for securing peace and to support our efforts for this . |