Example sentences of "us an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question whether the right to maintain , replace , extend and us an existing building is to subsist in perpetuity , notwithstanding that the building does not conform to the provisions of the scheme is fundamental in relation to the replanning of built-up areas . |
| 2 | Our role in defeating Germany and Japan , and in saving Greece and Turkey from Soviet take-over , undoubtedly gave us an exaggerated view of our capacity to help other peoples with quite different backgrounds . |
| 3 | These broad categories can give us an over-all perspective from which to view , handle and resolve our specific doubts . |
| 4 | I 'm not changing my tune , Councillor Wyle knows that in the past I have actually offered to go with them when they 've made erm , visits to the minister , and when he said , we we we tried , but we never got anywhere , and on various issues I 've said , well perhaps if we got us an all party delegation , at least we could have done no worse . |
| 5 | What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out . |
| 6 | In a few minutes … the Foreign Secretary gives us an exclusive glimpse of his new swimming trunks … |
| 7 | In today 's programme he gives us an exclusive interview , the first since his heart attack four months ago . |
| 8 | And Bergman 's film Wild Strawberries shows us an elderly professor at the peak of his career , about to receive the highest academic honour in the land , who dreams the night before of failing an examination . |
| 9 | In THE RAG NYMPH ( Corgi £4.99 ) Catherine Cookson gives us an engrossing tale of human trauma . |
| 10 | If we say the cost of production of a bird laying 276 eggs per 52 week period is 60p per dozen ( I 'm taking Stuart Hinchly 's ) figures demonstrated at the Royal Show ) , by retailing our own produce this should give us an average price of £1.25 plus per dozen . |
| 11 | Somewhere in this range , too , are those coincidences that give us an eerie spine-tingling feeling , like dreaming of a particular person for the first time in decades , then waking up to find that they died in the night . |
| 12 | But I agree with Stuart , I think what we 've got be careful is that if we 're gon na introduce something , it is actually erm capable of being enforced and it 's very difficult to see us an enforcing agent . |
| 13 | All around us an increasing crowd was assembling on the platform while the subterranean tunnels thundered and shook with their hidden traffic . |
| 14 | I shall quote further from page 239 , to give us an overall picture of the report . |
| 15 | We take in a lot more oxygen , our blood pressure rises and our brains release chemicals called endorphins which give us an immediate high . |
| 16 | They give us an immediate apprehension of form , albeit with a residual sense that the forms apprehended are illusory . |
| 17 | Our local guide will give us an unrivalled insight into places of interest and bird habitat . |
| 18 | ‘ That gives us an official relationship . |
| 19 | He gave us an official letter to show the military commanders we might bump into along the way , and sent one of his high-ranking aides down to the dock to see us off . |
| 20 | The UK economy may be a service-based economy in employment terms , but this does not give us an accurate picture of the output of service industries , that is , the productivity of the service sector . |
| 21 | so these local experts , you ca n't believe what they say the only way really is to , the scriptures do n't they say give us an accurate er description of what 's |
| 22 | Purple satin shorts , royal blue shirts and black socks will give us an impressive appearance and put the fear of death in opponents . |
| 23 | because we have , because it 's for the children , so I said we 'll do it , but that gives us an awful crush to get it in Friday the first week |
| 24 | Yeah , save us an awful lot of letter writing . |
| 25 | ‘ Are you going to save us an awful lot of time and trouble , sir , or are you determined to burden the taxpayer further ? ’ |
| 26 | Yet he gives us an authentic account of his epoch and of its medical habits . |
| 27 | This gives us an early warning of the pollutants that may arrive in our groundwater in the future . |
| 28 | Our purpose is less exacting and a simple application using the familiar 555 timer gives us an effective PWM with a minimum of components and a duty cycle variation from about 20 per cent to 70 per cent . |
| 29 | Absolutely not , I think there 's a strong sense in the Party that moving forward with our traditional values , that what we have to do is to apply those traditional values to a very changed world , things are very different now from when the Labour Party was formed , or even from when the Labour Party was last in government , so that we keep our sense of values , they are what grounds us , but what makes us an effective government in the future is the fact that we are moving forward with the times , and the increasing representation of women is one of the things which is about moving us forward , and moving with the times . |
| 30 | 3 Can you give us an approximate idea of sales you 'd be expecting over a three-year period ? |