Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writer then explores what research can tell us about the impact of national policies on families , the impact of community attitudes , children 's experiences of divorce and step-families and some of the traumas children suffer in the course of family life , sometimes so great that they are driven to run away and then incur other serious problems for which inadequate provision is made in the community as a whole . |
| 2 | Too close an identification will blind us to the shortcomings of the institutional Church , so that church growth becomes denominational aggrandisement . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is not far away ; an hour 's journey through the Forest would bring us to the shore from which it can be seen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In that case , I argued that Darwin 's idea of natural selection would lead us to the correct answer . |
| 7 | Porn can teach us about the simple mechanics of lesbian and gay sex . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We should , of course , be going into today 's game with Leech Town knowing that only a victory will keep us in the League . |
| 10 | Only a miracle can get us to the United States next summer now . |
| 11 | I thought of the far nurseries of the stars and how many days ' sail through the thin seas of hydrogen would take us beyond the space lamps and the burial grounds of the stars . |
| 12 | The driver would take us to the police . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A giant catapult will throw us to the mainland . ’ |
| 15 | Such conflicting views or theories of style will concern us for the remainder of this chapter , but rather than argue that one view is wholly superior to another , we shall try to harmonize the apparent conflicts , so that at the end of the chapter , we shall have worked through to a balanced view of what stylistics is about . |
| 16 | Canon Colson remarked in the Cuxton Parish Magazine , " The new posts and wires on the high road will remind us of the wonderful growth of knowledge and science in our age . |
| 17 | SEE INSIDE HOW YOUR DONATION WILL HELP US WITH THE FIGHT FOR THE FOREST … |
| 18 | It does not mean that we have been made righteous as if we are perfect and free from sin , because our daily experience will tell us of the power of sin ; but it does mean that we are declared righteous . |
| 19 | Anyone interested in learning more about this scheme should contact us at the address below , or on . |
| 20 | Finn 's Hotel will enable us for the first time to approach the encyclopedic Finnegans Wake with a true and not misleading knowledge of its origins and of the prototypes of its protagonists . |
| 21 | Meditation can bring us into the immediate presence of God . |
| 22 | I 'm sure your sister can see us to the gate . |
| 23 | ( 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 . ) |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When we turn to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving , God will fill us with the peace which passes all understanding , nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God which is expressed in Jesus Christ his son , our Lord . |