Example sentences of "be [prep] we for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the past four years , and it really has only been with us for that long , desktop publishing has managed to get itself a fairly bad name among the professional graphics community . |
| 2 | Actually , she 's only been with us for eleven months . |
| 3 | ‘ Almost everyone in the court was in tears — even the legal teams who have been with us for two years , ’ said Mary . |
| 4 | Mr Chairman , the traffic problem has been with us for many years as our village existed before the motor car . |
| 5 | Well daddy was to have been with us for this was n't he , for this meal ? |
| 6 | ‘ Miss Sowerby , ’ Reid explained , ‘ has been with us for several years . |
| 7 | ‘ Mark , ’ she began , ‘ you 've been with us for some time . ’ |
| 8 | Most of these newer techniques of systems analysis and design have in fact been with us for some time , but were not brought together until the publication of the above texts . |
| 9 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 10 | Ma tries her hardest to divide herself fairly between my own and Pa 's needs , but sometimes she must find it difficult , and it hurts her that , as yet , she can only be with us for these brief visits , and always seems tired . |
| 11 | DESPITE the advent of cassettes and CDs the analogue record is likely to be with us for some time yet , and in every amplifier used for playing them is an equaliser to modify the signal derived from the pick-up cartridge . |
| 12 | Underground work is going to be with us for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ If you remember , Luke Scott was with us for six months as a favour to the station 's director-general , who was a friend of his , because our listenership figures were dropping and we were losing advertising . |
| 14 | ‘ One of our sons was with us for eight months before going away to the other end of the earth — I could n't even phone him . |