Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] us to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Looking at the long sweep of the historical past , Temple had seen that ‘ Historical analogies lead us to one conclusion only ’ — that subject races invariably at some point regain their liberty .
2 The task Gomez envisages for the black lesbian returns us to radical humanism , and both Fanon and Gide as important points of reference .
3 ‘ Our tail-enders did a good job to get us to 394 .
4 Curiously , this futuristic notion returns us to one of the earliest electronic book models which we described in the original report .
5 Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development .
6 Above a miniature bergschrund , a slabby groove sporting a teasing overlap led us to another intriguingly smooth corner .
7 Books are essential and it is a sad day when financial troubles force us to this action , ’ he said .
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