Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were too strong for us at this stage , and beat us by nine wickets . |
| 2 | Perhaps the Franco-German axis is too strong for us on this issue . |
| 3 | We just want to share with you how God has been so faithful to us in many ways . |
| 4 | The argument that cheaper labour costs force manufacture abroad should not be acceptable to us as prospective purchasers . |
| 5 | Safety is always paramount to us in those matters and we are in discussion with them to see how best we can help . |
| 6 | The Haren guests were treated to a round of events which may sound rather unexciting and unsophisticated to us in 1992 in the week that Euro Disney opens , but were good wholesome fun in a post war Britain still on rationing . |
| 7 | But he was so good to us at first — I never dreamed how he 'd change — ’ |
| 8 | He is extremely useful to us in that role . |
| 9 | We want them because truth is what makes our beliefs useful to us in this well-defined sense . |
| 10 | C. S. Lewis 's approach to the nature of myth is very helpful to us at this point . |
| 11 | These results were important for us in several ways . |
| 12 | During the same time , the size and the shape of the company has changed to such a point that some of our assets are no longer meaningful to us as one of the world 's leading independent exploration and production companies . |
| 13 | The amount of information a word conveys is therefore a function of possible alternatives which would be meaningful to us in that position . |
| 14 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 15 | Fibre is important to us in healthy eating because it provides filling food without being fattening . |
| 16 | Since we live on the crust , it is important to us in more ways than one , but we are only going to consider it in its relationship to events in the mantle , since these explain how Plate Tectonics works . |
| 17 | And if she could tell you her mind privately some while ago , do you suppose she can not make it very plain to us in public today ? |
| 18 | The person in whose name the booking is invoiced acts on behalf of all other persons named on it and becomes primarily responsible to us for all payments in respect of the booking . |
| 19 | In a typically British way , we have failed to take the credit that is due to us for that achievement , which had its origins in the Kangaroo group of Members of the European Parliament founded by the late Basil de Ferranti specifically to break down the trade barriers that existed in Europe at a time when none of the other major Community partners wanted to know anything about it . |
| 20 | Well the estate agent er area has been around now for twenty years so they 're rather used to us in that . |
| 21 | Non-intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation techniques acting as ‘ bridges to transplantation ’ were not available to us for clinical purposes in 1985–6 , but various recent studies have suggested that well selected patients undergoing such mechanical interventions ( ventricular assist device , B ventricular assist device , total artificial heart ) have a similar short term outlook to those undergoing ‘ elective ’ transplantation . |
| 22 | Millions of pounds in jobs and portfolio are available to us with substantial opportunities for leads and sales commission . |
| 23 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 24 | I have already indicated in Chapter 2 that , even if we assume that true observational statements are available to us in some way , it is never possible to arrive at universal laws and theories by logical deductions on that basis alone . |
| 25 | The songs are produced by males when they rub their wings together , and are heard by the female through the ears on her front legs ; they are familiar to us from night-time walks , or the vicarious experience of the cinema . |
| 26 | The stranger to calligraphy may be struck by the fact that none of these cards displays the florid illumination characteristic of the 15th century Books of Hours made so familiar to us by countless commercial reproductions on christmas cards advertised widely in small format ‘ gift ’ catalogues . |
| 27 | In spite of widely different histories and circumstances , many of the joys and sorrows of church music all over the world are familiar to us in this country . |
| 28 | ‘ The house was getting too big for us as both our children have left home now . |
| 29 | Only the gorilla is particularly close to us in evolutionary terms ( though all of the top 10 animals are mammals ) , but many of the other favourites are distinctly humanoid in appearance , either because they sometimes stand upright , such as otters and polar bears , or because they have vaguely human-like faces . |
| 30 | did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all |