Example sentences of "[adj] to us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a short silence then the dogs ' barking grew into a raucous row ; shouts and the shrill of hunting horns carried clear to us as a fat buck , together with two hinds , galloped from the trees and across the meadow in a flurry of snow . |
| 2 | It was clear to us from the beginning that 1991 would not be a very good year to launch anything — from magazines to Scuds . |
| 3 | Northamptonshire TEC says bluntly : ’ It became clear to us in the early summer that we would not be fulfilling our Youth Training guarantee . ’ |
| 4 | Denise Alexander said : ‘ People throughout the North of England have been fantastically generous to us in the past year . ’ |
| 5 | He is indeed , as John Taylor has aptly called him , ‘ the go-between God ’ , for he both takes the things of God and makes them real to us on the one hand , and takes our faint longings and prayers and brings them to the Father on the other . |
| 6 | For the Holy Spirit and hope are two sides of the same coin ; respectively the objective and the subjective modes in which the future is made real to us in the present . |
| 7 | ‘ Why could not an entity that had no extension be visible to us under the appearance of … extension ? ’ |
| 8 | Of course , the Zim 's rock 'n' roll and Country leanings have become obvious to us over the years , but back then this was provocative stuff indeed . |
| 9 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 10 | The reason we want to adopt other people 's beliefs is that we know that everyone wants their own beliefs to be true : because , as we 've seen , truth is what makes our own beliefs useful to us in the way I described earlier , by making our actions succeed in fulfilling our desires . |
| 11 | Linfield chairman , David Campbell said today : ‘ This is a fantastic capture for us — an experienced player who will be invaluable to us in the European Cup . ’ |
| 12 | When my right hon. Friend is dealing with trade with Libya , will he bear it in mind that the United Kingdom is happy and willing to trade anywhere in the world , because that is important to us as a trading nation , but we must never sacrifice our values and standards , particularly those concerning our attitude towards international terrorism ? |
| 13 | We too are called to exchange the things that are important to us for the sake of the transformation God wishes to work in us . |
| 14 | Moreover , goals relate to situations , so arousal may be as much situational as internal ; we may be aroused by the presence of others and the knowledge that other people are evaluating us , thereby linking goals or values important to us to the situation in which we find ourselves . |
| 15 | you 're doing and yet you 're doing this tour of Alfie , which is obviously very important to us in the |
| 16 | The world would sound very strange to us through the ears of a frog , for we would hear the calls of other frogs , the noises made by its predators , and little else . |
| 17 | Given the variety of strategies available to us for the pronunciation of words , it is not surprising that there are marked individual differences in the ways in which skilled readers respond to different kinds of words . |
| 18 | We must conclude that this uniquely valid account of King Lear only became available to us with the theory of cognitive metaphor and the publication of Freeman 's paper . |
| 19 | We 've been to visit him , he 's back to visit us , and he 's available to us on the phone for a year , and all of that 's covered by this Department of the Environment . |
| 20 | We need to move , at the same time that the property market is in a substantial slump , and th are therefore offices available to us at a very very competitive price . |
| 21 | Of all the therapies available to us at the present time , spiritual healing in whatever form it is administered is probably the most deep-acting , the most misunderstood and the least often practised . |
| 22 | Then I hesitate to say that there 's probably a more complex issue now even than the Fire Station , erm , the figures which are given incidentally are the original estimate there , because that was what was available to us at the time . |
| 23 | The first two groups would have much to gain from interaction in an educational setting designed to emphasise what they had in common , and the servicing role we continued to provide would benefit from the additional resources ( of teaching and support staff , of facilities , equipment , and library provision , and of committee representation ) available to us as a department within a developed departmental structure . |
| 24 | At that time Sobstad were introducing the Genesis concept to the UK and David assured us that this hi-tech sail would be available to us as a one-design class for no more than the cost of our present Dacron sail . |
| 25 | Those aspects of union which are of enduring worth are available to us in a European union . |
| 26 | I shall , of course , establish whether we can use elements of the legislative battery that is available to us in a different way from the way in which it has been used until now . |
| 27 | One of the reasons why play is so absorbing is that it is self-initiated , in a way that is not available to us in the process of combatting , enduring or avoiding the slings and arrows of day-to-day living . |
| 28 | The sequence of studies we have carried out have derived from the tools available to us in the context of psychological and linguistic expertise . |
| 29 | In order to create a charge distribution a certain amount of work has to be done , and that is available to us in the form of electrostatic energy . |
| 30 | I began work this morning , together with my Secretary , Mr S Summerchild , and a clerical assistant , Mrs L Padmore , in the premises made available to us by the Government Commission . |