Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] us to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elisabeth Cook 's recent account of the ‘ Querelle des Bouffons ’ shows an extensive political dimension , which should alert us to the nature of associated rhetoric . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the de-Marxisation of their project by him and the ‘ death of the social ’ which he has announced should alert us to the doubts raised by Raymond Williams on the issue of certain types of Utopianism . |
| 3 | ( The very fact that the proposed ‘ Star Wars ’ defensive strategy of the United States involves computerised laser technology should alert us to the fact that such a defence has ominous offensive possibilities . ) |
| 4 | We have been more wary of challenging the transcultural verity of sexual categories , but in reality a minimum awareness of the evidence should alert us to the fact that though various cultures share general sexual forms , this does not mean that their content , inner structures and meanings are identical . |
| 5 | From a pedagogic point of view , the possibility of culture specificity should alert us to the fact that when we teach terms referring to discourse type and use them in discourse processing and production , we should not take for granted that each term has an exact translation equivalent . |
| 6 | This should alert us to the fact that the canons are incomplete records , and that they could even overlook matters of royal concern , like Guntram 's foundation of the monastery of St Marcel . |
| 7 | This zest should be carried into the transcendent and should bring us to the horizons of mental thought . |
| 8 | ‘ After the coronation they 'll take us to the palace for the night . |
| 9 | My guess is they 'll leave us to the forest . |
| 10 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
| 11 | It is not far away ; an hour 's journey through the Forest would bring us to the shore from which it can be seen . |
| 12 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
| 13 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 14 | The driver would take us to the police . |
| 15 | We were down to Halflight , sliding through the tangle of the Lagoon Nebula interlink , making our way towards the secondary GalacNet lines that would get us to the sector containing the Ixyphal system . |
| 16 | That would get us to the start of the season . ’ |
| 17 | A giant catapult will throw us to the mainland . ’ |
| 18 | This will alert us to the error in assuming that the sole way of justifying spending money on courses in the Arts must lie in claims about their utility for ends beyond themselves . |
| 19 | ‘ That will take us to the cities where we can buy more . |
| 20 | For Peirce , statistical sampling is the fundamental kind of ampliative inference , and for this he derives its ‘ validity ’ from his understanding of reality — its repeated use will take us to the truth in the long run . |
| 21 | Peirce could probably allow the same : his position rests upon the belief that there is a logical guarantee that induction will take us to the truth in the long run , but that our confidence in the short-run efficacy of the method is simply an ‘ acritical ’ commonsense certainty which may be susceptible to scientific explanation . |
| 22 | I tell you another year of feasibility studies will take us to the point of no return . |
| 23 | I have a boat ready and it will take us to the Delta . |
| 24 | Too close an identification will blind us to the shortcomings of the institutional Church , so that church growth becomes denominational aggrandisement . |
| 25 | But it will mean some form of acceptable lifestyle that will subject us to the discipline of God 's world and the needs of his creation . |
| 26 | I 'm sure your sister can see us to the gate . |
| 27 | ‘ You can take us to the graves , Sir James ? ’ |
| 28 | As violent crime against elderly people seems to increase , the resulting moral outcry can blind us to the fact that huge numbers of elderly people are abused in their own homes by carers — sons , daughters , husbands , wives , other relatives as friends , and paid carers . |
| 29 | Only a miracle can get us to the United States next summer now . |