Example sentences of "[vb infin] us much " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think he 'll give us much trouble once he 's confronted with the others . |
| 2 | Tragically , I have to wish that that was the case because today 's figures do not give us much ground for comfort , but , as long as the Minister continues his present style of trying to hype up and to trivialise every issue , that is what will happen to our agriculture . |
| 3 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 4 | ‘ Which does n't give us much time . |
| 5 | ‘ The listing will give us much more flexibility and will also enable us to use the market for capital raising exercises if necessary . ’ |
| 6 | They never used to come and see us much . |
| 7 | He did not ant to see us make the same mistake in Iran as it might cost us much more if we did not move now " . |
| 8 | The direct application of normal sociological categories can take us much of the way in these relatively explicit , but also relatively local and shifting , cases . |
| 9 | Obviously their monetary role can tell us much about monetary and perhaps also economic activity in any society , and this aspect will be discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 10 | As well as the names of cities , coin inscriptions can tell us much about a city 's institutions and individuals . |
| 11 | But they do not tell us much about how more complex cognitive processes take place . |
| 12 | While examination results alone do not tell us much about the nature of the educational crisis , they are useful indicators of the extent of the problem : undoubtedly school conditions and the situation of teachers have affected their outcomes . |
| 13 | The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own . |
| 14 | We can describe them in terms of electrical activity in the brain , but this does not really tell us much . |
| 15 | But these caricatures do not tell us much about what is going on with real , complex individuals behind the scenes . |
| 16 | But to say of a particular consequence that it would not obtain if that class were not hegemonal does not tell us much . |
| 17 | Although Unger argues against biological explanations of homosexuality , she collapses non-heterosexual identities into a single , deviant , implicitly biological category by claiming that the ‘ examination of homosexuals and transsexuals and the like … can tell us much about how gender identity usually develops ’ ( 1979 : 139 ) . |
| 18 | " No , they did n't tell us much ; we told them . |
| 19 | Where a range of success rates is given , this indicates that there were several assessment items for a particular skill or task and that performance covered a fairly wide band — an immediate warning that a criterion statement based on such tasks will not tell us much about pupils ' achievements . |
| 20 | Because the novel is invincibly domestic , it can tell us much about the space we live in ; equally , designs for houses and their furnishings can reveal hidden aspects of the novelist 's art . |
| 21 | These correlations , while of interest , do not tell us much about the political substance of the ‘ class'/party link , but Butler and Stokes pursued this further by soliciting ‘ free ’ responses concerning the reasons for identification with one or other party . |
| 22 | The discovery of even a few of these objects could tell us much about the early history of the Solar System , perhaps more than we would learn from the elusive ( or illusory ) Planet X. Gerald D. Quinlan is at the Lick Observatory , University of California , . |
| 23 | The changing nature of these relationships can tell us much about broader aspects of political change in Mexico , in particular the extent to which the corporatist pact with peasants , labour and popular sectors has been eroded by the impact of the economic crisis and the search for new forms of political representation within civil society . |
| 24 | Though he does not actually tell us much about Eddie he tells us that Eddie could be involved in something bloody . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ Neil was on the back but he ca n't tell us much about it yet . |
| 26 | This does n't tell us much about North Yorkshire , but is excellent for the many and varied mill shops of the old West Riding and cutlery in Sheffield . |
| 27 | Those do not get us much further . |
| 28 | ‘ Does n't get us much further then , ’ Tweed observed . |
| 29 | A little forethought can often save us much pain or discomfort . |
| 30 | Madame Butterfly at the Teatro Regio in Parma did not offer us much in the way of solid information . |