Example sentences of "of [noun sg] to us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ? |
| 2 | Two aspects of Wimpey Construction 's business were of benefit to us . |
| 3 | ‘ I should be most grateful , sir , if you could jot down any facts , figures or leads you think might be of assistance to us . ’ |
| 4 | Birmingham Polytechnic offer all their facilities absolutely free of charge to us so get yourself down in the entertainment bar in Aston . |
| 5 | There are therefore two questions of importance to us , and we will stay with the milk/newspapers example . |
| 6 | As the hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed out , those funds are of importance to us in the provision of our capital infrastructure , although they are not totally significant . |
| 7 | Every child presents this process of transformation to us ; only by that means does it become a moral and social being . |
| 8 | He was a sort of god to us … |
| 9 | It is a matter of pride to us that we can boast of several scholars , in the first rank , who are not university teachers . |
| 10 | ‘ My dear Meg , this lady , ’ Charles Briant said with dignity , ‘ is a boot and shoemaker , she simply wants to be of service to us , to make , like us all , an honest living . ’ |
| 11 | Though these measures are not due to necessity , as the people here are glad to be of service to us and treat us with courtesy in which not a little deference is admixed , for as I say they count many simple things great wonders : my fine paste shoe buckles ( the only part remaining after some native rats that are very large and like to be tame devoured the rest of the appurtenances ) inspired much clicking of teeth and clucking of tongues till I thought I should have to part with them . |
| 12 | But , if you were prepared to be of service to us … ’ |
| 13 | Surely such a creature can not be of use to us ? ’ |
| 14 | er other than wh the church ones , which obviously are n't a lot of use to us for this |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the print echo is only active whilst the CLI indicator is present , so this not a lot of use to us ! |
| 16 | We do n't er offer transit liability on documents because we only that is a flat piece of paper to us , it is n't a valuable item . |
| 17 | We just cos we do n't ins , it 's only a piece of paper to us , you see . |
| 18 | So this is a much more familiar model of democracy to us than any of the others that we 've seen so far |
| 19 | In our personal encounter with Christ , we begin to distinguish how we have naturally tried to please him , instead of allowing his love to enter our hearts so that we begin to love him with his gift of love to us . |
| 20 | Another area that is of concern to us is the development of what 's called Patient Focused Hospitals . |
| 21 | Where we often have great difficulty with Community proposals is when co-operation is replaced not by agreement but by majority voting on issues of concern to us . |
| 22 | Their common feature — if I can capture the interest of hon. Members — is that they seek to ensure the efficacy and integrity of the judicial process , which is of concern to us all , so that justice may be administered to all without interference from any quarter . |
| 23 | And particularly of concern to us an adverse structural shift in various employment sectors . |
| 24 | In order to provide a comprehensive service we need a steady flow of information to us . |
| 25 | Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French . |
| 26 | They were n't too quick to give up their prejudices , for part of the reason for the existence of prejudice is that our intolerance is directed against those who form some kind of threat to us . |
| 27 | Some result from experiences or preferences , and are reactions to our fears or those we feel are some kind of threat to us . |
| 28 | Erm , the difference in terms of cost to us is in no small part due to the fact that if somebody comes into one of our homes , we have a statutory national method of assessing their contribution , and they do n't ex access the full range of D S S benefits . |
| 29 | Dickens deals with each one tremendously well , making relating his points of view to us subtly but strongly leaving a strong impact on the reader . |
| 30 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |