Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards . |
| 2 | Camping holidays were always in the rain , but my parents would constantly remind us throughout the fortnight that the sun was ‘ trying to come out ’ . |
| 3 | We learned a great deal from those matches and this can only help us in the future , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 5 | We tramp across the wet grass and bracken and plunge through the soaking undergrowth with Andy confidently predicting , with all the security of a man who knows his feet are dry and will remain so , that this bushwhacking through chest-deep and sodden vegetation will soon bring us to the crag . |
| 6 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 7 | Have to say the planets and do n't forget we 've got to think about other solar systems as well so we 're not let's not limit us to the number , the planets why not . |
| 8 | But there is reason to think that our senses do not take us to the heart of things . |
| 9 | Even , Christian teaching will not educate us into the Kingdom of God ! |
| 10 | But intellect does not lead us to the Lord . |
| 11 | Whether or not early retirement and high unemployment continue , however , they should not blind us to the need to consider other factors which influence our capacity to care for dependent populations . |
| 12 | However , while it is doubtless true that men pay an emotional price for the power they have , this should not blind us to the power and privileges from which they do benefit . |
| 13 | The marketing of the man should not blind us to the fact that he is a great artist , unafraid of engaging mass culture . |
| 14 | In particular , the image of Germany epitomised by her most famous export , the Mercedes , as a country which is well built , reliable , and which performs well , should not blind us to the fact that the history of the Federal Republic has been a history of scandals , which have reached to the very highest echelons of power . |
| 15 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |
| 16 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |
| 17 | Leaders are only leaders because they have followers ; no leader can for long ignore the views of followers ; and the absence of overt party constraints on leaders should not blind us to the fact that leaders need to anticipate the reactions of their followers if they are to retain a measure of needed support and loyalty . |
| 18 | Biological science can not tell us of the mind of a creature any more than it can understand the nature and functioning of our human minds . |
| 19 | Fazisi does not tell us about the birth of the dream and the background of the person who was the heart of it as Maiden does , it is not as personal . |
| 20 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 21 | The other factor to consider is that the figures do not tell us about the amount of borrowing which comes about from increases in mortgages used for purposes other than house purchase . |
| 22 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 23 | It can not tell us about the meaning of the term ‘ popular music ’ , since that meaning , ideologically replete , has been pushed outside the frame of reference . |
| 24 | Can some account be given of how it does so which does not commit us to the theory that there are two distinct elements in visual perception , something two-dimensional , picture-like , on the one hand , and a judgement , on the other ? |
| 25 | But he does not remind us of the prophecy that hangs over them , or of the judgement pronounced by God upon the house of Eli . |
| 26 | But granted the credit for historical reliability which accrues to the evangelists through their reserve about the Spirit , that still does not help us with the problem of why there is practically nothing in the Gospels about men and women being filled with the Holy Spirit now that he was clearly in business again . |
| 27 | ( Jakobson associates relationships of contiguity with the figure metonymy , and those of equivalence with that of metaphor , a point which need not concern us for the moment , but which will become relevant in the discussion of Lacan later . ) |
| 28 | As to whether four-dimensional events rather than perceptual objects should be regarded as ontologically basic particulars , this is a metaphysical decision which need not concern us at the moment . |
| 29 | ‘ They do n't consult us on the agenda of the foreign ministers ' meeting and they do n't treat us as equal partners , ’ says a Czech diplomat . |
| 30 | ‘ They wo n't know us at the station , in London , ’ said Jonathon suddenly . |