Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hirsch 's formulation does not exclude the possibility of understanding literature in aesthetic terms , it merely prohibits us from claiming that this is how literature is , essentially , to be comprehended . |
| 2 | One focus is Jesus , who reveals the love of God for us , and so reconciles us to God , ; the other is the spiritual and ethical community which he founded . |
| 3 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 4 | It only allows us to evaluate moves to the north-east or the south-west in Figure 15–1 , but it is the most we can say about efficiency without becoming entangled in value judgements about equity . |
| 5 | The antithetical models of design 's significance that we possess today , all of which contain implicitly or explicitly a view of " design-and-society " relations ( for example the view that sees design as merely the activity of commodity shaping , or the view that sees design as the activity which alone allows us to organise consciously the meeting of material human needs — which " involve things or usable products " — in forms consonant with and conducive to particular kinds of social relations or ways of life … ) contain also , naturally , a view of what design is . |
| 6 | Much eludes us about the government of the Merovingian civitates , but some aspects of their role within the administration of the kingdom are reasonably clear . |
| 7 | It is easy to assume that the law about planning new developments , or changing the environment around us , only affects us when we need to take a positive step — such as applying for permission to extend our own property . |
| 8 | The high occurrence of so-called ‘ baby blues ’ and feelings of isolation alone shows us that the birth of a child is a very stressful event — a dramatic physical , psychological and social transition . |
| 9 | And that implies that our learning together engages us in dynamic encounter dynamic dialogue which also releases some of those energies in various areas of life that would otherwise be sealed or indeed , locked ! |
| 10 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance . |
| 12 | While the Capital Guarantee Bond may be a fairly simple product it more or less requires us to go through the same process as all other new products . |
| 13 | The novel with two endings does n't reproduce this reality : it merely takes us down two diverging paths . |
| 14 | Indeed , the term ‘ dramatic statement ’ , to which they become quite attached as the book proceeds , perhaps takes us too firmly in the direction of propositional knowledge translated into dramatic coding . |
| 15 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 16 | It only takes us three quarters of an hour . |
| 17 | When Jesus says to his disciples , ‘ You are not to set your mind on food or drink ; you are not to worry ’ ( Luke 12:29 — the only New Testament use of the word ) , he is saying that God 's care for us as Father means that food and drink are not to be a hang-up , an occasion for doubt and anxiety which constantly keeps us up in the air . |
| 18 | Relating an interlude of bad weather in 1873 , Bonington suddenly whisks us to the ( almost ) contemporary Chamonix campsite : ‘ Sitting out bad weather is another familiar experience . |
| 19 | Whatever we wish to know — however trivial , however important — is available in an energy field that constantly surrounds us . |
| 20 | All the time we are immersed in a veritable sea of irradiation that not only surrounds us and permeates our bodies but suffuses from inside our very being . |
| 21 | Pride holds onto the past and so prevents us from moving forward and achieving more with our lives . |
| 22 | There Engels more or less tells us that the scheme presented is not likely to be changed by new discoveries . |
| 23 | A couple of years of university so familiarises us with this idea that literature dissolves entirely into the drudgery of reading and writing crit . |
| 24 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
| 25 | If we keep our minds busy we can consciously ignore our tummy , which often only tells us it 's hungry because we 're bored . |
| 26 | But this only tells us the earliest date at which the book could have been written , not the latest date , which is of more interest . |
| 27 | It must be borne in mind that this distribution , while , likely to be typical of the 1910 sample as a whole , does reflect that sample sage structure : the information comes from marriages logged very largely between 1910 and 1920 and obviously tells us more about the families that sent their daughter to the trade in the 1900s than about the earlier decades . |
| 28 | Such evidence only helps us to see the long-term trend over two or three centuries . |
| 29 | The micro , which is itself able to display rich patterns of behaviour , perhaps presents us with these opportunities for the first time . |
| 30 | As the blurb rightly tells us Ferrier was ruthlessly critical of her own performance . |