Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] us [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not only advantageous for us to know which of a horse 's emotions are destructive to us having a good working relationship with it ; but ideally , if we also consider horse will do more for us and give us greater pleasure . |
| 2 | But generally it 's been unnecessary for us to have much contact . |
| 3 | We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest . ’ |
| 4 | We are in chaos here until we get all Angela 's work redistributed , we 're all of us doing five things at once . |
| 5 | business contacts that you 're happy for us to approach . |
| 6 | Erm they are left er a list of er a blank like this and say right you contracted to take the products now we want from , it 'll be this one say , now we want a list of advertisers who or prospec prospect businesses who you think you 're happy for us to approach for a start . |
| 7 | You know , you 're worried about us threatening you on your borders , you 've been threatening us on our borders you get rid of yours we 'll get rid of ours , fair ? |
| 8 | So we proceeded on a cost plus basis , also the cost plus environment actually brings the partners together because if there are three of us working on a cost plus contract and I have a problem , my two partners rush to help me because clearly there 's some more profit for them , erm if the only difficulty with cost plus contract of course is that unless you have a a real ceiling on the total er costs that you 're going to pay , it may keep on rising far higher than you 'd ever imagined . |
| 9 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 10 | Consider alcohol : We are all of us exposed to it . |
| 11 | So i i it sits side by side with the erm items that we 'd decided are important for us to achieve our visions . |
| 12 | And they are asked to provide us with a list of businesses which they are happy for us to approach . |
| 13 | And we ask them to bring together er list of the businesses which they are happy for us to approach on their behalf |
| 14 | We are er going to ask them to compile a list of businesses which they are happy for us to approach . |
| 15 | It feels like there are more of us coming together in all our groups to continue challenging our various communities on their continued exclusion of us . |
| 16 | So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said , ‘ It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables . |
| 17 | And so , ’ said Zeinab , ‘ since you do not love me , properly , not truly , not the way I love you , it would not be right for us to make love . ’ |
| 18 | This is partly because , for reasons to be discussed later , we shall be confining ourselves to a certain class of creative person , viz authors : it would therefore be presumptuous of us to extrapolate from our conclusions to other forms of originality . |
| 19 | Or to look at it another way — we are little men , we do n't know the ins and outs of the matter , there are wheels within wheels , etcetera — it wold be presumptuous of us to interfere with the designs of fate or even of kings . |
| 20 | What actually happened is that my Group said simply that our proposals for 11 to 16 year olds were built on our work for the primary stages , and that it would be absurd for us to bring out our second Report if its proposals were out of tune with the earlier attainment targets . |
| 21 | ‘ Would it be possible for us to talk to the Prince ? ’ |
| 22 | yes , but Joan asked at the end , did n't she , if it would be possible for us to use that for history and they said yes |
| 23 | ‘ No … no , I do n't want to buy them … it was just … that is , would it be possible for us to see them ? ’ |
| 24 | Close to the date , some of our members were chatting to Llangollen Railway member Peter Cutler , and he suggested that it might be possible for us to see the work on the next extension , to Glyndyfrdwy . |
| 25 | If , therefore , it is difficult at this stage for us to establish with any certainty general patterns of cause and effect between ‘ industrialization ’ and the relatively autonomous conjugal family , it may be possible for us to argue that there is at least a degree of fit , a congruence , between these two elements . |
| 26 | In the future , it might be possible for us to reset our body clock to the new time zone quickly , by taking a pill containing melatonin at the appropriate time of day . |
| 27 | Will my hon. Friend pass to the National Audit Office the thanks of Parliament for its series of reports and ask whether it would be possible for us to have them at a time when Parliament is likely to be sitting rather than at one minute to midnight for the benefit of the press ? |
| 28 | Would it be possible for us to send him a copy of 4 Gardens as a gesture of goodwill ? |
| 29 | We 're talking just under two hundred in Denmark and just under three hundred in Norway it may be cost-effective for us to do it ourselves with initial distribution from Stansted and maybe a local person doing any new distributions but I think in all honesty it will be as cheap for us |
| 30 | This can be a somewhat daunting document , but it would be unrealistic for us to simplify it too much . |