Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] us [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Cramlington and North Shields provide examples of a core and outer locale respectively , but they do not provide us with an account of ‘ inner-ring ’ developments . |
| 4 | You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But there is reason to think that our senses do not take us to the heart of things . |
| 7 | Even , Christian teaching will not educate us into the Kingdom of God ! |
| 8 | But intellect does not lead us to the Lord . |
| 9 | First it must not lead us into a relativist position regarding Scripture as but one of many revelations of God . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The marketing of the man should not blind us to the fact that he is a great artist , unafraid of engaging mass culture . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It does not help us on a path of self-exploration and self-conversion . |
| 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 . |