Example sentences of "tells [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Page 42 tells you more about the Bodrum peninsula , Bitez , and the two delightful hotels we use , but this is a convenient resort where you live right on the beach , enjoying a friendly style of service that 's difficult to fault . |
| 2 | Page 42 tells you more about the resort , casual sailing and the distractions of Bodrum . |
| 3 | It tells us little about the writer 's private feelings . |
| 4 | Secondly , membership in these occupational categories tells us little about the wealth of the person concerned . |
| 5 | But , as numerous critics have pointed out , that a sitter is , or was once , present in front of the camera , tells us little about the shooting situation , the relationship between sitter and photographer , the equipment and techniques used . |
| 6 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 7 | This tells us only about the feasibility of screening , not about effectiveness . |
| 8 | This clearly allows the bilingual audience — and one 's knowledge of a language does not have to be particularly broad for one to know the rude words — to appreciate a pun that tells us much of the character of the fabliau : the essential place of the con in the conte . |
| 9 | Again , it tells us much about the society of archaic hunters and gatherers , but much less about modern or ancient societies with well-developed , centralized-state structures . |
| 10 | First , that the radical Right 's assault has been carefully managed ; the step by step approach was brilliantly conceived and managed by diligent and unerring control from the centre ; secondly , that the speed of its success has varied in different areas of public provision , which tells us much about the role of resistances , resistances built on organized opposition within the public services . |
| 11 | Yet the failure of the " Fifteen tells us much about the nature and limitations of the Jacobite position . |