Example sentences of "[to-vb] us [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some reports claimed that the allegations ( described as " totally groundless " by the Chinese Foreign Ministry ) were certain to increase US congressional pressure on President Bush not to renew China 's most favoured nation trading status . |
| 2 | In Selfoss the assistant in the chemist 's tries to sell us surgical spirit when we ask for meths and there is a pantomime while Tony explains to her , in best sign language , that what he wants is spirit for a Trangia . |
| 3 | Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress . |
| 4 | Israel , which was hoping to win US congressional approval during 1991 for loans worth some US$10,000 million , had also been actively seeking contributions from Germany . |
| 5 | This allowed the administration to extend to the Soviet Union credit guarantees worth up to US$1,000 million to buy US agricultural produce . |
| 6 | The Sandinistas may also use the visit to discuss US foreign policy in Central America , and the question of whether improved Soviet-US relations could lead to a lifting of the US economic embargo on Nicaragua . |
| 7 | The whole point of investing this money on auditing is to give us possible feed back . . |
| 8 | Mr Heseltine replied : ‘ The only phone calls Mr Major will make will be to 20 of his colleagues , inviting them to join his government and prepare the Queen 's Speech , which is clearly , in outline , to continue the reforms that are necessary in this country to continue to give us firm leadership and government . ’ |
| 9 | We will divide our people — some to the Rorim and the Circle , and some to the outer wall to give us advance warning . ’ |
| 10 | He continued : ‘ She is very resilient and was able to give us good information about what happened . ’ |
| 11 | We extended the hours of service considerably , right away , and managed to persuade Charlie Crane , manager of the city 's main hotel , Grant Hall , to give us free use of a room on the top floor at the back of the building . |
| 12 | We would advise you to give us sufficient notice , usually 12 working days prior to Auction date , once a suitable property has been found that you are interested in . |
| 13 | The first is , where is Lincoln going , Lincolnshire going to left after the local erm , government commission put their proposals forward and the government have a look at them , and then secondly , what our , as we note from Item Eleven , a fuller report will be brought to this sub-committee when the local government staff commission or the Secretary of State to give us definitive advice . |
| 14 | But if you look deeper into it , you 'll find that it 's really calculated to give us inferior education and deny us full rights as human beings . |
| 15 | Our greatest asset had been a copy of The Scotsman , originally bought to give us wise counsel on the weather . |
| 16 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 17 | US President George Bush on July 31 , 1989 , vetoed a bill passed by Congress which would have set restrictions on the joint development of the FSX fighter , Japan 's next generation of attack aircraft [ see p. 36619 ; 36651 ] , on the grounds that joint development would have enabled the Japanese to overtake US technological superiority in aerospace and would have provided the means whereby Japan could develop its own commercial aircraft . |
| 18 | The mine was a product of the Soviet Union 's race to match US nuclear capability after Hiroshima in 1945 . |
| 19 | Former President Bush indicated America 's readiness to offer US military lift , logistics , communications and intelligence capabilities to support peace-keeping operations . |
| 20 | No timescale was placed on the proposals to limit US military influence and the USA called on the JSP to clarify its position . |
| 21 | One of the guys at work managed to get his sister-in-law to tape US Prime Time mid-afternoon so that we could all watch it on vdeo last night . |
| 22 | During a visit to Moscow made by Raúl Castro in mid-July 1960 , the USSR not only arranged to supply arms to Cuba , but Khrushchev ‘ reaffirmed that the Soviet Union would use everything to prevent US armed intervention against the Republic of Cuba ’ ( Soviet — Cuban Communiqué , Pravda , 21 July 1960 , p. 1 ) . |