Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] us [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it . |
| 2 | As we get older reality requires that the ideal and the self are reconciled ; ambitions are relaxed ; unrealistic goals are abandoned as time and opportunity compel us to change the idealized concept we have for ourselves . |
| 3 | Marcia Pointon 's fascinating essay on the contemporary portrait leads us to question the central relationship between artist , sitter and spectator . |
| 4 | just as a desire to understand absolute holism led us to analyse the substantive claims of Althusser and Poulantzas , so we must now consider work inspired by an attachment to concessive holism in order to reach a clearer view of its guiding interests . |
| 5 | Acknowledging this interdependence allows us to make the courageous leap of ‘ letting in ’ the fetus , of rejecting the idea that it is simply a clump of cells , of taking it into our moral accounting and allowing it to make some claim on our attentions . |
| 6 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 7 | Shifting the dramatic frame enables us to use the dramatic fictions that are shown on children 's television as starting points for drama . |
| 8 | Given a particular failure , the method enables us to identify the various combinations and sequences of other failures that could lead to that failure . |
| 9 | PRICE : Our excellent reputation and years of experience coupled with our overall size allows us to negotiate the best possible rates which of course , we pass on to our customers resulting in outstanding value without sacrificing any quality . |
| 10 | Music stimulates us to realize the Dionysiac metaphysical world in Apolline symbolism , which then , under the influence of music , acquires its highest significance . |
| 11 | Applying the marginal productivity theory of the demand for labour in perfect competition permits us to interpret the same angle as a measure of the real wage rate . |
| 12 | The long corporate ownership by the abbey enables us to see the early arrangement ; the charter details survive and the ‘ focal place ’ of each period can be defined . |
| 13 | The Primitive Methodists , whose work was mostly amongst working people , admitted with a sorrow they could not hide that ‘ the growing worldliness of men needs a faithful and independent ministry ; the increased educational facilities and the advance of science challenge us to put the best talent we can produce into the pulpit ’ . |
| 14 | This model allows us to calculate the average trends in the binding energies of nuclei , but it predicts incorrectly that all nuclei should have a spherical shape , which varies as the cube root of the atomic weight , just as the radius of a liquid drop varies as the cube root of its mass . |
| 15 | As Auer puts it ( 1984a : 5 ) , " under close scrutiny , the details of the sequential embeddedness of language choice and language alternation permit us to formulate the coherent procedural model we are looking for " . |
| 16 | Mourning enables us to see the millions who die of starvation in our world not as impersonal statistics , but as unique human beings . |
| 17 | Coming out of Beckley a wandering Triumph Herald forced us to check the anti-lock brakes ( they work , and well ) . |
| 18 | With no revenue , many magazines cut down on their pages but we are glad to say that the Ski Club of Great Britain , who publish Ski survey backed us to produce the usual number of editorial pages , so we could fit in all the information you need as committed skiers . |
| 19 | It addresses the question whether it would in fact pay us to do the right thing . |