Example sentences of "[adj] remind us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , crucially , and this reminds us of Genet , Bersani locates a challenge inseparable from a certain ambivalence : if gay males threaten male heterosexual identity , it is not because they offer a detached parody of that identity , but rather because ‘ from within their nearly mad identification with it , they never cease to feel the appeal of its being violated ’ ( ‘ Is the Rectum a Grave ? ’ , 208 — 9 , his emphasis ) . |
| 2 | This reminds us of Adam and Eve in the bible and the disobedience of man when they ate the forbidden apple . |
| 3 | to distinguish them from the signs by which we are already combining elements of Q. The new symbols are sufficiently unfamiliar to remind us of their defining role but sufficiently similar to + and . |
| 4 | The table of the Nations in Genesis 10 reminds us of the map of Anaximander ; the Book of Job , probably an exilic work , has often been compared with Aeschylus ' Prometheus . |
| 5 | The food was impeccably tasteful , wine excellent , speeches fine : undeniably last was best with Sue Solomon dressed like an exuberant garden , released from her barrister 's black and white reminding us of DameJanet 's odd stress when asking us ( long ago of course ) to give three cheers for Mrs Gandhi ‘ Somerville 's first woman Prime Minister ’ — Sue added ‘ I sincerely trust that Somervillians of the future will never have to drink a toast to Somerville 's first male P.M. ! ’ |
| 6 | ending the scene as he had begun it , with a soliloquy , how lucky he is to have The naked statement of self-seeking reminds us of Iago , as does the confidence with which he approaches the task — ‘ easy ’ ( ‘ For'tis most easy/Th ’ inclining Desdemona to subdue/In any honest suit' ( Othello , II.iii.332ff. ) ) — and the scorn for those taken in by his traps ( ‘ Thus credulous fools are caught ! ’ |
| 7 | The environmental transport campaign group Transport 2000 reminded us in its recent ‘ The Rush for Roads ’ report , that some of the poorest sections of society are being asked to make sacrifices for measures designed to promote economic growth . |
| 8 | He seemed pleased to remind us of yet more evidence of Bouilland 's humming modernity , and took us out into the sun again . |
| 9 | However Fig. 9.2 reminds us of the conditions under which such pruning would not be successful . |
| 10 | The oldest reminded us of the barge captain . |