Example sentences of "[prep] us [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decade after the Scarman report on Brixton and on the evidence from our more troubled communities , this is no time for any of us to strike traditional postures . |
| 2 | After we had docked , a representative of Inflot , the Russian equivalent of Trinity House , apologetically asked each of us to sign more documents . |
| 3 | Obviously a figure higher than that would take some pressure of us to make those incursions into the green belt , a lower figure conversely would require us to make higher la larger incursions into our greenbelt . |
| 4 | The only way forward for this great union is for all of us to recruit new members , so all of us must take this responsibility seriously . |
| 5 | The manager replied it was cleaned out that morning , and came with us to take another look . |
| 6 | Instead of dwelling on portraying the figures in the worst possible light , she should work with us to reduce that time . |
| 7 | But the Government must enter into genuine dialogue with us to ensure these reforms are successful , ’ Mr Smith added . |
| 8 | But it was a flop , and Wilcox moved on from US to make successive deals with Universal and RKO . |
| 9 | We entirely repudiated a personal liability on us to obey general rules . |
| 10 | Erm , when an application is received for building approval by a District Council , they consult the Fire Authority but there 's no specific obligation on us to give detailed advice . |
| 11 | It is encouraging that these countries wish to follow our example but it also places a heavy obligation on us to offer this assistance . |
| 12 | Yet we live in a society in which there are very great pressures on us to keep those subjects in watertight compartments . |
| 13 | We do have a small number who come to us to do primary training , but it 's erm it 's one group only , and it 's always been a rather special group . |
| 14 | It 's very heartening that the A T C are actually looking to us to do some work with them , and that they actually think that Oxford is moving forward in the right direction , and that they actually want to come and share some of our knowledge . |
| 15 | ‘ Kirov is too important to us to take any chances . |
| 16 | IT 'S up to us to produce better movies . |
| 17 | I mean I think Mr Maxwell 's on the end of a very nasty hook at the moment with these houses and he 's wriggling off that and he 's offered these houses to us to avoid public embarrassment to his company and also to gain co-operation from us and the City Council in other areas . |
| 18 | It never occurred to us to criticize these conditions , which we accepted as a part of Eton life , like the tailcoats and top hats we wore . |
| 19 | Plainly , merulite tubes removed one of the favourite weapons of attack at football matches , and since the containers were easily disposed of by burning , without any pollution effects , appeared to us to have strong advantages from an environmental point of view . |
| 20 | As a suggestion for a hermeneutic notion of social structure , it seems to us to have great merit . |
| 21 | We got a penny for each brick , and it was a wonderful thing for us to earn some money during the school holidays . |
| 22 | It is difficult for us to acknowledge that violence and destruction , on both sides , are expressions of ‘ rational ’ behaviour ; that ‘ reason ’ may be at the heart of violence . |
| 23 | Would not the best way to ensure that such a treaty would be accepted worldwide be for us to allow international inspection and verification of the numbers of our warheads ? |
| 24 | When it is necessary for us to replace cross-grain cornice mouldings we have found that there is no satisfactory alternative to the time-tested , original method , i.e. saw-cutting and then finishing with large radius carving gouges and plenty of sanding . |
| 25 | → Taking your points in reverse order , David , I think it would be difficult , if not impossible for us to give such data in a way that 's meaningful to guitarists . |
| 26 | I would make the point that it has taken thirty five years for us to reach this point where we have comprehensive strategy for York , we have battled with er various greenbelt boundaries in the past , I think there has never been erm a total review development plan requirements for the Greater York area , no more of its implications on possible greenbelt boundaries , we now have that and the greenbelt local plan , Southern Ryedale local plans are being progressed on the basis of that strategy , and there are other plans in the pipeline . |
| 27 | ‘ What I really want is for us to reach these people before Moscow does : there 's no argument about who they 'll want to pin it on . |
| 28 | Every time there is a problem , people come back and say , ‘ The answer is for us to purchase additional data ’ . |
| 29 | We have an intuitive grip on numerical non-identity which is wholly sufficient for us to judge proposed criteria of it . |
| 30 | It is equally convenient for us to divide this chapter accordingly . |