Example sentences of "[prep] us that the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's really dealing with that whole idea of the image of the self and the reflection in the water being much bigger and more interesting to all of us that the reality of who Jeff Koons is , ’ Rifkin says . |
| 2 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |
| 3 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 4 | The Birmingham Money Advice Centre pointed out to us that the sort of people who use this type of weekly credit would otherwise often be unable to get credit at all , and stressed the danger of making business difficult for lenders who might be relatively expensive but the only available credit resource for some people . |
| 5 | The jury may in some cases put two and two together , but it seems to us that the effect of section 58 is such that the balance of fairness between prosecution and defence can not be maintained unless proper comment is permitted on the defendant 's silence in such circumstances . |
| 6 | It seems to us that the House of Lords today might come to another conclusion . |