Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] an [adj] [noun] " 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 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 9 | He ran across the gangplank as enthusiastically as though he sought votes for his father 's election campaign , then approached us with an outstretched hand and a voice full of bright greetings . |
| 10 | They have presented us with an extraordinary melange of figures which are hugely contradictory . |
| 11 | There were no roads direct from the station to where the world began , but the carriage drivers , squatting over their breakfasts , directed us to an abandoned railway line which cut across country . |
| 12 | PC Paul Lewis of Leicestershire Police , said : ‘ This shows us in an unfair light . |
| 13 | This letter is to confirm our agreement that you will provide us with an authoring program for Reading for English . |
| 14 | Taken together with higher level knowledge , these could provide us with an alternative technique for correcting errors within the system . |
| 15 | So neither incorrigibility nor indubitability can provide us with an alternative form of foundationalism . |
| 16 | The bank chose Acse because , while ‘ other companies told us they could provide us with an Electronic Data Interchange translator , Acse was the only one who said , ‘ EDI is not a problem of technology , but a problem of integrating it into your existing systems , ’ ’ Gilmont said . |
| 17 | I propose that we reject the central image of ourselves as victims and install instead an alternative conception which sees us as an active force working in many different ways for our freedom from racial subordination . |
| 18 | Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance . |
| 19 | Talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ commits us to an inappropriate way of looking at the matter — as though the only difference between understanding understanding and understanding sweating is that in the case of understanding understanding our gaze is directed inwards . |
| 20 | If the medium of issue is magnetic then the indefinite maintenance of bit-perfect records commits us to an active program of periodic renewal and integrity checking , or a one-off transfer to a more permanent medium . |
| 21 | Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices . |
| 22 | Mr Brown 's trip to Harlem has brought us into an urban landscape known to tabloid headline writers as Beirut-on-Hudson , an advance on their earlier versions of , first , Naples-on-Hudson , and then Calcutta-on-Hudson . |
| 23 | At midday , we were standing in the stern when a voice hailed us from an upper deck . |
| 24 | It is a difficult process , since it has to be directed against one 's mental processes , which are designed to protect us from an alien world . |
| 25 | If nothing else , he has provided us with an excellent description of coffin-making , coffin furniture and grave clothes of the mid seventeenth century . |
| 26 | What we have now is much more than a game : an exciting story to which we do not know the end ; and a visual image which will lead us to an exciting starting point for a drama , an image which we know has engaged the children . |
| 27 | In each work she presents us with an unexpected anxiety , the memory before a human crisis . |
| 28 | For Mr Till presents us with an intellectual Mozart , linking him with Rousseau and Voltaire , Goethe and Schiller . |
| 29 | He is taking us on an interesting excursion , |
| 30 | Then on 7 May we had the visit of Mamie Magnusson , who kindly agreed at short notice to launch our Christian Aid Sale by coming to present us with an autographed copy of her enthralling history of the Woman 's Guild 's first century . |