Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] we [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Many eastern approaches are passive in that they aim to empty the mind , or help us to reach the stage whereby we become observers of our own thoughts as if we were somehow separate from them . |
2 | As Todorov repeatedly insists in his Introduction to Poetics , ‘ The particular text will only be an instance that allows us to describe the properties of literature [ in general ] ’ ( 1981 : 7 ) . |
3 | It is the introduction of multiple assignments that allows us to reduce the assignments in every program to this form . |
4 | In entertainment I 'd think the reduc cost reductions there were pretty well , er restricted to good housekeeping , but from fine china er , we managed to transfer the , the er , work in the Minton factory to the Knowle Street factory and that allowed us to close the Minton factory and quite apart from the redundancies that entailed , we saved something like two hundred and fifty thousand er , non staff related overhead . |
5 | Because of the potential importance of the association , as well as to overcome methodological limitations of the original study , we analysed data from a prospective study that allowed us to assess the association between dental disease and coronary heart disease . |
6 | In fact , the envelope the film sample came in carried a completely different company name and it was only our knowledge of the market that allowed us to recognise the source . |
7 | There are , however , some simple rules that enable us to deduce the symmetry of a vibration from the band envelope of the corresponding IR or Raman band , even at rather limited resolution , where the 2B spacing of components of P and R branches , for instance , is not resolved . |
8 | ‘ We knew well in advance when the Subject Assessors would be visiting Wester Hailes , and that enabled us to prepare the staff . ’ |
9 | Hobhouse 's evolutionary method was , however , also reminiscent of Comte since he argued that it was the growing domination of mind over the conditions of life that enables us to appreciate the importance of the collective framework of society . |
10 | Grant McDougall , of Christie 's , said : ‘ Ray approached us and asked us to value the items . |
11 | I was very taken with the piece and at that time after the war the Lucerne Festival was very interested in having the orchestra and allowing us to determine the repertory . |
12 | In the meanwhile , simulation buys time and allows us to pass the baton to the next generation which may well have to face similar problems . |
13 | It forces us to see man in total and forces us to recognise the limitations of a positivist view of the social sciences . |
14 | is to show and enable us to handle the relationships that exist between geometry and function . |
15 | No sooner had we done so when a staff officer drove up in a car , accused us of looting and ordered us to put the tins back in the cases . |
16 | Gregory was unable to do so and counselled us to abandon the lesion method altogether . |
17 | Only days before the verdict was announced the Rev. Al Sharpton , a black Baptist minister , warned the white community that unless both Fama and Mondello were convicted of murder " you are lighting a match to the end of a powder keg and telling us to burn the town down " . |
18 | I 'm not trying to cast any blame here but handed over allocations on Innsbruck to at one time yeah and left us to carry the ball cos she sort of withdrew at one time |
19 | Please send £6 , £10 , £20 , or whatever you can afford , in the envelope provided , and help us to save the badger . |
20 | As one unionist remarked , ‘ they gave us the key , but forbade us to open the door . ’ |
21 | Utilitarianism is often thought of as challenging us to rethink the ethics of the common sense of our society . |