Example sentences of "[verb] us to an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Comparison also points us to an important dimension of law already discussed : besides regulating behaviour or social relations , legal systems also — in different societies to different degrees — contain a symbolic or rhetorical dimension , in other words , law forms part of the ideological system of a society . |
| 8 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 9 | These reflections lead us to an alternative view of pressure group power in Britain : that the strongest weapons are forms of direct action and not the manipulation of electoral choice . |
| 10 | If our ideological preconceptions incline us to an exclusive interest in standard English , we will produce what is in effect a history of literary English ; this will exclude and neglect other historical patterns that are capable of enriching our description of the history of spoken English and , ultimately , of adding to our understanding of the general phenomenon of linguistic change . |