Example sentences of "us [to-vb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another important rare process that lasers may help us to detect is the decay of the proton ( New Scientist , vol 85 , p 1016 ) . |
| 2 | That which a feminist perspective enables us to perceive is valid for everyone . |
| 3 | Now if the prediction that follows from this maze of premises turns out to be false ( in our example , if the planet does not appear at the predicted location ) , then all that the logic of the situation permits us to conclude is that at least one of the premises must be false . |
| 4 | The order of the book as laid out is thus merely a façade , disguising a deeper , underlying order , and , in effect , what Cortázar is inviting us to do is to throw off our habitual passiveness , to reject the given and to join him and Oliveira in their quest for a different , more authentic order . |
| 5 | If you , all I do n't want us to do is to start drifting into the second exercise as part of this first exercise which sounds very much |
| 6 | What the computer system enables us to do is input the various pieces of information for each case which are particular to that case but to run these pieces of information through a set framework of events which produce the appropriate documentation , thus achieving a cost effective and efficient system . |
| 7 | What A Present View forces us to do is to reconsider a traditional equation between humanism and liberalism . |
| 8 | And finally I can just look at erm draft planning policy guidance thirteen , it is very easy to lift one or two sentences out of either the draft planning policy note , or indeed the Ecotech report which underpins it , erm , I think if a full reading is made of that , what comes across strongly in the research is that there is a very complex relationship between urban forms and transport patterns , and indeed erm I think the advice in P P G , er draft P P G thirteen is prefaced with a note that erm , transport issues are , will be erm , there are very few general principles , if any , and local er considerations will influence the er the importance of this iss issue very considerably , what I think draft P P G thirteen does invite us to do is to more overtly look the transportation implications of alternative settlement patterns , and that 's all . |
| 9 | And what I would like us to do is to be able when we leave here tomorrow , to say that by what we 've learned about one another , and by what we 've actually decided , that we can probably improve what we 're doing by something between five and ten percent . |
| 10 | Now what I want us to do is to look at these questions er because we 're being tape recorded , I am not going to give you time to work on a questions |
| 11 | What , in order to decide whether they 're going to give us the contract what they have asked us to do is prepare a thirty minute radio , sorry thirty second radio presentation and we will re , record for them and they will hear , which we want to emphasise based on how good that was whether they want to take the contract out with us . |
| 12 | Erm , but what I wanted us to do is to start getting some discussion going and , so that you 're actually getting a bit closer to one another . |
| 13 | What our staffing levels do n't allow us to do is for the care assistants to have the time they would like just to spend talking to elderly people , talking them write letters , get in touch with their relatives . |
| 14 | And in some cases the assumptions you have asked us to cost are vulnerable to counter attack from the Opposition . |
| 15 | One of the activities that will.help us to keep being successful is to keep on learning . |
| 16 | I think another important thing for us to recognize is that many of the people within the N H S , the people directly responsible for the care , remain some of the lowest people in the country , the least rewarded people in the country . |
| 17 | We desire a lot of things that the advertising industry brainwashes us to believe are indispensable . |
| 18 | To conclude that the universe exists because it permits us to exist is an act of faith , not reason . |
| 19 | This conclusion should not be affected by any view we take about whether the use of memory constitutes a re-examination of the original sensation or a mere inspection of how that sensation now seems to us to have been . |
| 20 | Erm but what we would say at this stage , is that there does n't seem any rationale behind the discounts that have been applied by by the County Council , indeed we have a situation in Hambleton district , where there is a seventy percent discount , erm which does n't seem to us to have been explained or justified . |
| 21 | Of recent British policy , Dulles privately remarked on 6 May 1957 : " It seems to us to have been characteristic of a nation which , realizing that it was weak , felt it had to act as though it was strong " . |
| 22 | ‘ Because I do not want us to stop being friends . |
| 23 | But many of the techniques which computers are enabling us to exploit are not new . |