Example sentences of "be [prep] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely all three are for us among the great achievements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ? |
| 2 | Thirdly , it involved saying that ‘ the general principles of the constitution ( as for example the right to personal liberty , or the right of public meeting ) are with us as the result of judicial decisions determining the rights of private persons in particular cases brought before the courts ’ . |
| 3 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
| 4 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 5 | CFCs — the main problem — have been with us since the 1930s , a valued invention because they are non-toxic , non-flammable and cheaper to make than any known substitute . |
| 6 | … atmospheric pollution has been with us since the creation ; it became much worse … with the Garden of Eden and infinitely worse following the mechanical ingenuity of James Watt . |
| 7 | Apples have been with us since the dawn of time , in countless varieties of colour , shape and size . |
| 8 | I suspect that tensions concerning rights , freedoms and responsibilities have been with us since the earliest days of humanity . |
| 9 | ‘ I further assert that these spores have been with us since the birth of mankind . |
| 10 | The dry , cloudy weather will still be with us at the start of the night , but some patchy , light rain will creep into the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway by the end of the night . |
| 11 | She 'll be with us on the 17th . |
| 12 | fund , er and we say that er , er we hope your Lordship will be with us on the main issues , but if your not , we say there are very powerful reasons of English and community law including er the obligation on the court under article five , to ensure that the , er the , the trials some two years hence lasting some five weeks with all the expert evidence , my learned friend says will be necessary , should not in the interim have the effect of er frustrating er the operation of er apparently valid provisions in the United Kingdom statutes and the Lloyds Acts and byelaws , which er , are themselves measures that have been adopted so as to pursue the policy |
| 13 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 14 | Sadly , my hon. Friend the Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) will not be with us after the election , but my experience of him suggests that if he opens his mouth in Ashfield , we shall hear him down here — |
| 15 | Ethylene overcapacity may extend over the next 3–5 years and ‘ potentially could be with us throughout the decade if many of the plants now under study phase come to fruition ’ . |
| 16 | My view has always been , and still is , that the extension of the RMI will still be with us in the year 2000 . |
| 17 | ‘ Sir , how come you were behind us in the corridor and now you 're in front of us here ? ’ |
| 18 | The odds were against us from the start at Lincoln — and he knew it . |
| 19 | If you were with us at the last occasion of this sort , the last centenary lecture on Gerter , given by Professor Corby , you will remember on that occasion erm he provided a focus of illumination in a period of power cuts , economic gloom and all the rest of it . |
| 20 | The clouds that were with us on the climb had gone , opening the way to spectacular views , views helped by the air being free of dust and haze . |
| 21 | Others were with us for the first time — students from the Darlington area . |
| 22 | ‘ We are toasting missing colleagues who were with us in the buffet and who would have preferred us to do it this way , instead of being sombre , ’ said Mr Christopher Reeves , a consultant engineer who joined the train at Southampton Parkway station . |
| 23 | Yeah well that 's erm , I mean , the only talking is between us at the moment it 's just , you know , . |
| 24 | There is between us in the past a shared glory and a shared misfortune … ’ |
| 25 | On Harrogate , erm I think the discussions have clarified a lot of the the sort of outstanding issues that that er were between perhaps the County Council and erm Professor Lock , er not so much between ourselves and Harrogate , although we have the the issue , and I think if I read it right , this could well be er the only issue that is between us in the Harrogate area , the issue of the strategic sites . |
| 26 | Bird Ban time is upon us with the South Stack ( Gogarth ) bans beginning on the February 1st and most Pembroke bans starting on March 1st . |
| 27 | The Corporal who was with us at the time , a new one detached from Orange , immediately awarded Mike 2,000 press-ups . |