Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [adj] for our " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was partly responsible for our degradation ’ ( 1973 : 8 , 41 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I was deeply grateful for our conversation yesterday morning and being able to pick your brains on the subjects was an immense help . |
| 3 | The chef , Master Worker Chang , is a caricature of a Chinese chef , very large and fat , who is very solicitous for our welfare , and comes in and explains to us the dishes in a sort of Chinese version of Hyman Kaplan 's English . |
| 4 | We are equally thankful for our no less indispensable friends from the private sector , whether they be our Principal Benefactors or those who choose to support a particular event they fancy . |
| 5 | ‘ We were extremely fearful for our own safety . |
| 6 | The above discussion does not cover all aspects of thematic structure , but it is probably sufficient for our current purposes . |
| 7 | It is very important for our children to see your cartoons , which are a good first message of what Western children watch . ’ |
| 8 | In that setting it is very difficult for our " propaganda " to be as effective as it might otherwise be . |
| 9 | In simple language , it is much harder for our members , coming from a close-knit professional community , to step out of line . ’ |
| 10 | Romeo and Juliet shows us medieval Italy doubly distorted , by the sixteenth-century vision of the author and the fourteenth-century government of a duke ; none the less , as a picture of endemic faction and eternal conflict , it is as authentic for our period as for any later . |
| 11 | Not many modern readers like this sonnet — it is too clever for our tastes . |
| 12 | But if it can be proven that overfishing of sand-eel is the principal cause of the problem , we can only hope that remedial action can be taken before it is too late for our important sea-bird colonies to recover . |
| 13 | It is perhaps fortunate for our mental stability that more recent researches seem to indicate that black-hole travel is impossible . |
| 14 | It was also nice for our three children , because it was surrounded by a garden that was looked after by the College gardeners . |
| 15 | When the file concerned was an ED ( Enumeration District ) level file , it was too large for our screen editor to be used , and a FORTRAN program had to be written to change it As a result of these corrections , the data held at Manchester is cleaner than that at OPCS ( the Census Office for England and Wales ) itself ! |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing 's too good for our Salome . |
| 17 | What is more significant for our purpose is that proportion of premium income which found its way into the acquisition of other financial assets . |
| 18 | What is more important for our purposes is the way in which the aggregate demand curve interacts with the aggregate supply curve to determine the equilibrium general level of prices and the equilibrium level of output ; we are especially interested in the nature of that interaction when expectations are rational . |