Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 — the way in which he and his colleagues can assist us on an individual basis .
2 Caroline Durkan , the GDA senior projects executive handling the scheme , said yesterday : ‘ It places us in an awkward position if we try to get cash from the public sector if the private sector do not see the benefits of Citywatch . ’
3 2 He provided us with a new theory as to the essential reality of governing , in the period of classical parliamentary government , in the period when members of the Commons enjoyed a golden age of independence between the fall of patronage and the rise of highly organised political parties .
4 It is only much later , in On Human Conduct ( 1975 ) , that Oakeshott provided us with a comprehensive account of his views on government and law .
5 This first season with its dramatic results , provided us with a working demonstration of the trap presented by residual material in any earth shifted from one place to another .
6 In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment .
7 I had hardly had time to consider this problem : rip P J O'Rourke off , or get dressed , before the pilot jerked us into a vertical dive ?
8 Mr. Ashworth helpfully referred us to a substantial number of United States decisions .
9 It appears that the next stage is to look for suitable sites and I am told that you will be able to provide us with a large scale map of the area for this purpose .
10 You are required by law to provide us with the following information : —
11 If you are currently unable to provide us with the relevant information , please indicate by which date this would be possible .
12 These views , laid out primarily in The Constitution of Liberty and his three-volume work , Law , Legislation and Liberty , provide us with a powerful insight into the liberal theory of government and law .
13 Our brain uses these slight differences to give the scene depth and so provide us with a three-dimensional image .
14 Notice also how these skills provide us with a timeless wisdom , applicable to all people-situations anywhere .
15 Turtles provide us with a different example .
16 The improvements in performance over the last two years provide us with a secure base from which to move forward .
17 Whilst we 're able to implement quite a considerable proportion of the er , objectives without any financial commitment , this particular er , issue does erm , provide us with a considerable test , and members need to know that in order to achieve the move from residential care to community care , we would have to have some ring-fence monies to be able , to enable that shift to , to take place , before the erm , the budget could be reduced on the residential side .
18 Goals and values plus energy provide us with the vital information on motivation to perform and it is these variables which provide the best data on how an individual is likely to perform .
19 Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper .
20 Yet , despite the rapid growth of these more recent subjects , history retains its traditional importance in higher education , since its social , cultural , economic and political concerns provide us with an interdisciplinary approach to problems that includes the perspectives and many of the methods of the various social sciences , yet also seeks to establish a broader , overall assessment of the issues it examines .
21 As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances .
22 Legislation helped us with the medical practice booklets .
23 Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best ; but God disciplines us for our good , that we may share in his holiness .
24 He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love .
25 May they preserve us from the hermetic seal .
26 Mr Browning paced about and then said , ‘ You place us in a difficult position , Wilson , and one we can hardly approve .
27 There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea .
28 As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system .
29 GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground .
30 They do n't direct us to the late survival of a gypsy paradise .
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