Example sentences of "us [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ This made us the second most successful regional morning in the UK and one of only a handful of papers to increase annual sales . |
2 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
3 | Or maybe , seeing us the second time , he might have suspected . |
4 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
5 | Bukharin gave us the first fully algebraic exposition of accumulation in the Marxist tradition ; and as such his contribution marked a turning point in discussions of the reproduction schemas , since he was able to formulate general conditions of capitalist development . |
6 | ‘ If they would n't tell us the first time , why should they do so now ? ’ |
7 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
8 | For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line . |
9 | We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months . |
10 | 's kept us on file and will give us the first date available in June . |
11 | Lessing — for us the first of these theoreticians — is quite frank about the strictly functional purpose of his concern with Aristotle . |
12 | THE death of the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has taken from us the last and most loved of our nieces ( for niece she was , although older than the present writers by five and ten years ) . |
13 | But chapter 23 gives us the last piece of true storytelling in which Abraham is centre stage throughout . |
14 | NeXT Computer Inc is likely to go public next year , founder Steve Jobs said in Chicago last week , although he added that no steps have yet been taken to start the process : ‘ Things ( have been ) going very well for us the last few quarters , ’ Jobs said , and ‘ this quarter looks quite good as well , so if things keep on their present course and the market is good , I think there 's a real good possibility that we 'll go public next year . ’ |
15 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
16 | when we us the last two and that one exploded on me I had this and it goes and exploded all over me and went over |
17 | Ministers had rejected the report but politically it took us the next two general elections to repair the damage . |
18 | It was going to be a major battle and there were plenty of press predictions that the radical changes would cost us the next general election . |
19 | Perhaps President we could solve the problem by the T & G having theirs one year and us the next . |
20 | Then we effectively double their money , because that would give us the fourth and final one that we do need to set up and start operating . |
21 | Announcing this programme , the then Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , said dramatically , ‘ Our nuclear pioneers have now given us a second chance — to lead another industrial revolution in the second half of the twentieth century . ' |
22 | Plotting OU 1 against OY 1 on graph ( iv ) gives us a second point on the unemployment-income curve ( point B ) . |
23 | ‘ It gave us a second pop at Morley Street , and he was stopping , ’ said Elsworth . |
24 | The aircraft had previously been flown in the USA as N190DH until a crash at Sellersburg , Indiana , on September 22 , 1987 , following which it was imported into the UK in 1989 and has only recently completed rebuild in the capable hands of Cliff Lovell , giving us a second airworthy DH.90 alongside Wessex Aviation & Transport 's G–AEDT . |
25 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |
26 | Last but not least Surrey have given us a second fine Chairman in Pauline Kenward . |
27 | Actually , nobody gave us a second look as they must have presumed I was trying to get inside her knickers . |
28 | This gives us a second combination of interest and income ( 10% and £40m. ) which must also be on the IS curve . |
29 | So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ? |
30 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |