Example sentences of "us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What does this tell us about a biblical attitude regarding our partner 's body in the marriage relationship ? |
| 2 | The Legenda tell us about a few miracles that he is supposed to have performed , but otherwise he seems to have lived a fairly uneventful outward life . |
| 3 | Sitting at a counter surrounded by the fulsome figures of the Boo Yaa Tribe , with his goatee beard and black stetson hat , he tells us about a party he 's giving at his home in Chicago . |
| 4 | Each one of them tells us about a different aspect of the creature . |
| 5 | In other words , it was costing us about a pound an hour in water . |
| 6 | Given the favourable non-wage labour cost which the minister told us about a moment ago , how does he justify the enormous discrepancy in wages between England and Wales as an average and areas like South Wales and Northumberland where average weekly earnings are up to sixty five pounds less than the average and will he explain to us why the government is not tackling huge wage differentials in this country ? |
| 7 | Yeah , somebody had told us about a place to go to , asking the bloody earth they were ! |
| 8 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |
| 9 | Waiting to tell us about a victory for Bicester over Milton in the Hellenic League premier cup ; Bicester two , they 're going so well at the moment , Milton nil ; Charlie Rawling . |
| 10 | Incidentally , it will cost us about an extra eight thousand pounds just to do the trial in . |
| 11 | Science tells us about the structural and relational properties of objects , while consciousness tells us what they are qualitatively like . |
| 12 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 13 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 14 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 15 | We also reviewed such evidence as has been submitted to us about the possible relation between the number of executions in particular years and the incidence of murder in succeeding years . |
| 16 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
| 17 | Not only are the results of such ‘ on site ’ studies of immense value for what we assume they tell us about the role of our body clock in affecting mental performance , but they also serve two further roles . |
| 18 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
| 19 | A-1 put the fear of God into us about the Corvette . |
| 20 | We 'll wait for the lads up there to tell us about the blood and we 'll read the autopsy report . |
| 21 | What can they tell us about the nature of an economy ? |
| 22 | We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter . |
| 23 | What a lot that tells us about the Treasury . |
| 24 | A man talked to us about the Christian way of life . |
| 25 | We hope that you will be able to tell us about the personal side . ’ |
| 26 | A few weeks later , whilst visiting St. John 's College , he shared with us about the mutual support within the group and the high priority given to it by its members . |
| 27 | Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals . |
| 28 | The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards . |
| 29 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 30 | He talked to us about the new country , about snow , about the huge city , and we all wanted to know more , to see what it was like . |