Example sentences of "are [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is somewhat unfortunate because by the fourteenth of January we are supposed to agree a purchase plan with the health authority , and it 's a little difficult to do that in the absence of the knowledge of what conditions are attaching us to where and how you can spend the money . |
| 2 | ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’ |
| 3 | Another possible version of foundationalism holds that there are some beliefs which are given us as ‘ data ’ , and which are fully justified unless something arises to defeat their justification ( cf. the use of defeasibility in 2.3 ) . |
| 4 | Remember that this is the only national fundraising that we are asked to do each year and that this year HQ are allowing us to keep 20% of the cash for our branch funds … so come along the other 75% , let's find those books of tickets and get the stubs ( and the £2 ) to , |
| 5 | I tell Fairfax a great deal more than I had intended , but I believe our confidences are drawing us together . |
| 6 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The Geophysical Observatory in Port Moresby have over the years provided us with very useful earthquake data and are helping us monitor the after shocks which are sill being felt in the Tari area . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ No , you are helping us with our enquiries . ’ |
| 9 | So I 'm saying to Graham , come on , we 're helping you , you are helping us obviously , I 'm not gon na deny the fact you 're helping us with our research . |
| 10 | But if you take the , the servicing sections overall , what we should be able to say is that look okay we 're gon na have a delayed kick in of improved productiv because it , productivity cos of new systems that are helping us , whether it moves us from two point six to two point seven to two point eight is arguable , and we wo n't know that for sure until we get there , but we should n't have is deterioration . |
| 11 | We have parents who seem to have lurched abruptly into grandparenthood , or who are nagging us to make them grandparents . |
| 12 | Instead , manufacturers are encouraging us to buy faster machines with more storage capacity and better displays . |
| 13 | Psychobiology is particularly exciting at the moment because advances in instrumentation are bringing us new ways of studying the brain while areas like artificial intelligence are providing new ways of thinking about how it might work as the ‘ organ of behaviour ’ . |
| 14 | Scottish Opera are bringing us their full company of soloists , chorus , and orchestra . |
| 15 | Because there has been so little change in British industrial and fiscal policies in a changing world , the emerging nations are overtaking us , gaining access to our markets at home and abroad . |
| 16 | But many of the techniques which computers are enabling us to exploit are not new . |
| 17 | There was n't a car we recognized in the lane , we were as surprised to find them as you are to find us . ’ |
| 18 | If ever we wake up in the morning and feel that this is just ‘ another day to get through ’ , then our life is painfully stuck — and it is fear and limiting beliefs which are keeping us stuck . |
| 19 | ‘ We need to see to the horses if they are to bear us any farther . |
| 20 | ‘ People are seizing us because we 're able to write good songs in a stylistic vein that 's quite different to the way songs have been written recently in contemporary music . |
| 21 | ‘ We were world champions last year , but all of a sudden people are writing us off . |
| 22 | Erm one interesting point about overtime and temps er generally is that temps apparently unl are costing us around about fourteen K with overheads which is a lot more than I believed to be the case . |
| 23 | This is why it is so important to address each day those things that are bugging us . |
| 24 | As we can see , though , new concerns with how writing interacts with history are causing us to abandon the idea of literary study as something caught up with the transcendental . |
| 25 | Why is it that some general secretaries of certain unions are pushing us down the path of severing our links ? |
| 26 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 27 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 28 | ‘ You are serving us the fermented grapes from Noah 's vines ? ’ |
| 29 | As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ . |
| 30 | They are leading us in the direction of a central truth about life on Earth , the truth that I alluded to in my opening paragraph about willow seeds . |