Example sentences of "the [noun sg] for us [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merger with Elsevier confirmed this view of our strategic priorities , and the refinancing this month … provides the opportunity for us to complete our withdrawal . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Do you expect God to hold back the tide for us to float here all day , then , or do we turn in to Duart ? ’ |
| 3 | The local youth centre raised the money for us to have a phone installed and we got a FreeFone number for the Exeter and Devon area . |
| 4 | If , as reported on Page One , the funds of the town council are as much as John Bennett states , perhaps they would advance the money for us to buy a new minibus , on suitable terms of course . |
| 5 | There 's too much quality at the club for us to stay down for long . |
| 6 | He says that , ‘ DTX-2 , like its biogenetic relatives acts as an ‘ on-off ’ switch for certain phosphatase enzymes and could open a door in the cell for us to look inside and see what is going on ’ . |
| 7 | The biggest excitement of the war for us happened when an aeroplane came down on the hill above Clove Lodge , which is just across the valley from Low Birk Hatt . |
| 8 | ‘ This underlines the need for us to continue to place emphasis on our drive for constant improvement in each of our businesses and on the continued importance of careful cash-management . ’ |
| 9 | This demonstrates the need for us to continue to stop and search people if we are to make the streets safe . ’ |
| 10 | It , it highlights the need for us to take a rational approach does it not , to er , the local government review , and realize that cooperation is essential between all parties concerned for the best interests of Shropshire as , as a whole , the people of Shropshire as a whole . |
| 11 | The intensive visit highlighted the need for us to reassess our own internal structures and tighten them up where necessary ’ . |
| 12 | Skipper David Graveney said : ‘ Brown 's problem could be the result of him doing too much bowling , and underlines the need for us to rotate our bowlers . |
| 13 | The development programme for the aircraft will provide the broad range of capabilities which was asked for by all four nations originally and er the fact that one or more nations may have deleted its requirement for a particular facility does n't remove the need for us to complete the development work er because we still have at least one or two customers for that facility . |
| 14 | By self-determination we mean the right for us to associate and integrate with the unitary state , or , as a nation , to secede . ’ |
| 15 | She was therefore a little disconcerted to find when they left the station that instead of waiting for a taxi Lady Selvedge began to stride away in the direction of Victoria Street , saying ‘ I know just the place for us to get a snack . |
| 16 | ( ’ The people who sold the soap for us want to replenish their supply ’ came the typically slippery message to McFarlane ; his secretary described how , when such messages came , he would look at her with a puzzled expression . ) |
| 17 | So it is n't a bad idea at this stage of the season for us to conjure up a few exercises to test receding intellectual fibre . |
| 18 | She also brought two double-sided tapes of Phantom of the Opera for us to play . |
| 19 | Outside , it 's still raining , and as we gallantly struggle to open our umbrella in the wind , we suddenly find we 've come to a halt beside a large black car , and a man in a smart suit is opening the door for us to get in . |
| 20 | A call came over the radio for us to go to a RTA . |
| 21 | ‘ It took the win for us to notice , ’ said Mr Murray . |
| 22 | In an industry where communication of information between different levels is vital to effective management ( a factor reported as by no means negligible in Government inquiries into construction industry disasters ) , this project was not only fulfilling a real educational need , but also illustrating the justification for us to include communication skills within the scope of information skills . |
| 23 | For us , all that symbolism represents a really bad time in our career , and part of the reason for us packing it all in . |
| 24 | Now the r the reason for us doing that is that if they do accept it , they are duty bound as a council to write to Prime Minister , Prime Minister , direct , saying they support the declaration of intent . |
| 25 | Hi , John , it 's that time of the year for us to talk about your pension , look I 'm in your area next week , when can we get together ? |
| 26 | Is not that the way for us to gain increasing shares of world markets for the fourth successive year , in contrast with the strike-torn , tax-weary years of decline under Labour ? |
| 27 | As discussed in Chapter 7 , ageing increases the tendency for us to become ‘ larks ’ — and some of us are ‘ larks ’ anyway — because the body clock has then a free-running period that is below the average for the population as a whole . |
| 28 | Denis rallied the defeatists with a robust speech : what everyone had said showed how pretentious were some of the demands made by the party for us to interfere here , there and everywhere . |
| 29 | " I do n't believe that this is the time for us to profit from each other 's misery so I hereby cancel all sales of food which have taken place this afternoon . |
| 30 | ‘ Darling Ruth , if you do n't know how I feel about you now , you never will , but now is n't the time for us to make rash statements as we did in Seville . |