Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] we [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here our itinerary takes us along the new section of the road , rather surprisingly signposted to Fort William , and brings us to the first railway so far seen , at Strathcarron Station . |
| 2 | Scotland international coach Roxburgh admitted : ‘ The loss of Richard presents us with a real problem . |
| 3 | The programme provides us with a quaint selection of Sons , Brides and other relations of Frankenstein , all based on some English lady 's knock-off of Rabbi Judah Loewe and the golem of Prague . |
| 4 | David Goldsmith treats us to a bumper four-page collection , including matting , bindings , boots and bleepers |
| 5 | In particular , Oakeshott 's conception provides us with an insightful critique of Dicey 's method in Law of the Constitution . |
| 6 | At its best , pluralist-orientated research provides us with an idealised description , in this case of the backward region , which puts certain features in very high relief ; in Banfield 's study , these features are mainly related to individual attitudes . |
| 7 | Misha Glenny takes us through the historical background to the war , before giving us a more detailed account of the political manoeuvring and stirring from August 1990 to May 1992 . |
| 8 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 9 | The Ego is our internal saboteur , our own worst enemy , which con fines us to the dark cellars of our mind . |
| 10 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 11 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |
| 12 | This quotation points us towards an historical account of both the ‘ social evolution of Britain ’ and the ‘ certain political factors ’ which have weakened the ‘ class ’ alignment in British politics . |
| 13 | This last point leads us to an important , but frequently misunderstood , concept in the analysis of discourse . |
| 14 | ‘ It is also to be remarked , ’ wrote Wallace , ‘ that the great chain of active volcanoes in Sumatra and Java furnishes us with a sufficient cause for this subsidence , since the enormous masses of matter thrown out would take away the foundations of the surrounding district ; and this may be the true explanation of the often-noticed fact that volcanoes and volcanic chains are always near the sea . |
| 15 | In the 12 chapters the author takes us from a basic introduction to the design of synthesis , through the various methodologies , to a few selected total syntheses . |
| 16 | Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument . |
| 17 | the ordering of the strata ( layers ) of sediment on an archaeological site provides us with a relative dating technique . |
| 18 | Massey provides us with a fascinating and persuasive account of how capitalist production has used space . |
| 19 | Charles Dickens provides us with a vivid account of nineteenth-century urban poverty in such novels as Oliver Twist and Great Expectations . |
| 20 | Let me quote Professor Adolf Butenandt , Nobel prize-winning biologist : ‘ Even though modern biology provides us with a new outlook and a deeper insight into the nature of many living phenomena , it does not answer the question of what life itself is . ’ |
| 21 | Part of the inner route takes us through a narrow gap between a promontory of Fetlar called the Ness of Urie , and a small skerry which has a patch of grass on top . |
| 22 | A consideration of two dreams in Shakespeare 's plays takes us to a similar conclusion . |
| 23 | Marriage is intended as a bond for life , and Jesus 's appeal to first principles provides us with a high view of marriage , a vivid contrast to liberal teaching then and now . |
| 24 | An understanding of the biotic and expressive orders supplies us with an improved appreciation of human agency ; one which means we need no longer envisage people as automatic pilots swept along by the broad forces of capitalist processes and social relations . |
| 25 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 26 | If your communication is good and you can work together to increase that co-operation and co-operation gets better really puts us with trust and co-operation puts us on a high scale . |
| 27 | Boswell brings us to the very bones — literally — of their excursion to the churchyard behind the stable-block . |
| 28 | Wittgenstein 's argument provides us with a related objection to Locke 's explanation . |
| 29 | More generally , his theory provides us with a remarkable insight into the nature of the British constitution ; the entire thrust of Oakeshott 's work can be interpreted as laying down a view of the world in which the British constitution with its conventions , understandings , and practices which have evolved through a slow historical process actually makes sense . |
| 30 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |