Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] us [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As adults we have active consciences which help us do the right thing . |
| 2 | Everybody knows — including I think members of the Council from all three political groups — everybody knows that we 've got increasing numbers of elderly people , we 've got increasing numbers of disabled and mentally ill people in the community , and if there is one service , and I know there are others , but if there is one service that needs constant new growth it 's Social Services , and that 's not me empire building or anything like that , that 's me simply saying in straight managerial terms there are forces which require us to increase the Social Services budget . |
| 3 | They let us know the grim picture you are being given , of our situation here . |
| 4 | finally they allow us to situate the different thresholds in their respective place : for nothing proves in advance … that their chronology is the same for all types of discourse … |
| 5 | They allow us to escape the vast and growing area of ambiguity — for that ‘ Japanese car ’ is assembled in the United States by Mexican and Korean workers , from parts made in twenty other countries , by a corporation whose parent is registered in Tokyo but owned by a consortium of companies registered in five other countries , and the general manager is a German . |
| 6 | Wish art goes on to emphasize the importance of the electric media in breaking the hegemony of notation , for they enable us to capture the actual sounds , in all their inflectional complexity — freed from the ‘ filtering ’ effects of notation — and in experiential rather than spatialized time . |
| 7 | The principal focus of long-wave theories is historical , offering a framework for conceiving the movement of economies over time so that , if they help us understand the modern UK economy , they do so by locating the present in a pattern that covers the past and the future . |