Example sentences of "be for us " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How sad it would be for us to lose you to the sea , Señor Capitano . ’ |
| 2 | Peter and I agreed that the next step should be for us ( you ? ) to circulate the above topic/author proposals as an Aunt Sally to Paul and Jackie Schachter to see if this coincides at all with their thinking . |
| 3 | And you could say that Boy 's life in The Bar and in fact his mere presence there began somehow to be for us our revenge on that poor boy in that terrible , bitter , unhappy scene in that famous film . |
| 4 | A priest is there to be for us a specific and bodily reminder of the man Jesus at the Last Supper . |
| 5 | What a wonderful thing it would be for us all if we could think of ‘ family ’ in this extended way ! |
| 6 | McGrath said : ‘ If I had a New Year 's wish , it would be for us and Manchester United to battle it out in a two-horse race for the Championship — and for us to win it for a lot of reasons . ’ |
| 7 | It should be noted that this grouping of sixth-century metalwork includes nearly all of the known examples , and only raises again the question of how similar items have to be for us to be able to distinguish the skills of one workshop as opposed to the learned traditions of a single society . |
| 8 | ‘ The pitch is huge and the longer the match goes on , the better that should be for us . |
| 9 | Being human there can be for us no other benchmark with which to operate . |
| 10 | I do n't know whether it was because he realised how hard it 'd be for us to get enough for both of us , or whether he knew he was off his head and needed someone around who was n't , y'know what I mean , to look after the kids and sort things out , like . |
| 11 | " Is it going to be for us as well as about us ? " she asked . |
| 12 | However , the first step must be for us to achieve recognition at the level of official LEA policy that special educational provision begins with what the regular class teacher is doing in the classroom , and that the first responsibility of special needs teachers is to help class teachers meet special needs themselves . |
| 13 | Would not the best way to ensure that such a treaty would be accepted worldwide be for us to allow international inspection and verification of the numbers of our warheads ? |
| 14 | Well , imagine how different our life would be for us for a start . |
| 15 | Gentlemen , I , I , I do believe , fellow councillors , what we 've done now is asked the solicitor to , to take the matter in hand , and so I do think until we 've got advice from him , it would be for us to actually recommend any other |
| 16 | I think it would be for us to talk together , the four of us for a start , and er , and bring proper proposals to future meetings would n't it ? |
| 17 | It will have to be for us at least twenty one days , that 's the absolute rock bottom minimum I would have thought therefore the French I suspect have us over a barrel and we would have to cough up for the enormous expenditure of an extra building at Strasbourg which is not needed erm as I understand it er that er view I savoured I do n't erm have the details of that . |
| 18 | The earth upon which God has placed us should be for us a special trust from one generation to another . |
| 19 | but in the very unlikely , very unlikely er position whereby Norfolk are absolutely adamantly oppose our proposals then as Mr said it 's very difficult for us to build in , in neighbouring authority , there is however one procedure left to us and that of course will be for us to meet in private act of Parliament , well that is er almost unthinkable , but we do have a final resort to that with a , in many ways the problems in Brandon have to be resolved by , by doing a bypass and if in the end we have to do that I 'm sure that |