Example sentences of "[det] [verb] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 2 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 3 | This leads us into the next stage of whole-healing , namely diet . |
| 4 | This takes us into the nebulous area of psychological assessment , but it is also the case that the supply of information must be of the right type and in the right form to enable human beings to respond and act correctly , especially the air traffic controllers and the flight crew . |
| 5 | Having examined the fabric of a church , what can this tell us of the local landscape ? |
| 6 | So , how does this help us with the circular rows we do during the cast on sequence ? |
| 7 | This brings us to the second proposition , which was evidently begotten of inability to answer that difficult , because inherently unanswerable , question . |
| 8 | This brings us to the second stimulus to the citizenship idea . |
| 9 | This brings us to the second of my three questions . |
| 10 | This brings us to the second general point : that women were not working in what were known as " skilled " occupations . |
| 11 | Nor was the scene confined to the city : half the picture was outside the wall , a stretch of which was shown near the middle ; and this brings us to the second great change , the opening up of space . |
| 12 | This brings us to the major problems of class observation . |
| 13 | This brings us to the final ingredient in P.D . |
| 14 | This brings us to the final point in this section : the relationship between authority , the market and rights . |
| 15 | This brings us to the key difference between the Keynesian and monetarist models . |
| 16 | And this brings us to the next chapter . |
| 17 | This brings us to the last perspective which has influenced us : the study , in the broadest sense , of personality . |
| 18 | This brings us to the Third Period , which started with the very first human emotions which heralded the dawn of civilisation . |
| 19 | This brings us to the third , and for our purposes the most significant , of the problems laid out at the start of this section . |
| 20 | This brings us to the third stage : the arrival of a new and sometimes troublesome predator in the British countryside . |
| 21 | This brings us to the third question : is regulation worthwhile ? |
| 22 | This brings us to the third phase , in which linguists have become more generally prepared to question the notion of linguistic equality and to accept that language differences might give rise to difficulties which are not due solely to the social and linguistic misconceptions of teachers . |
| 23 | Eventually arrived at hotel in Marinna de Ravenna , to be met by a complimentary bottle of Champagne and this set us off the next day , on a full tank ! |
| 24 | This returns us to the earlier point about the other major forces which contributed to the development of political responses to the riots : namely the media , Parliament , the political parties , and popular ‘ common-sense ’ debate . |
| 25 | Far from being unimportant , the study of administration and institutions has much to tell us about the increasing effectiveness of the state and central government in an aspect of government growing more important with every passing year . |
| 26 | The expression I is not of course the only such troublesome feature of English ; the following examples all present us with the same sort of problems ( with the relevant deictic expression italicized , a convention followed throughout this Chapter ) : ( 6 ) You are the mother of Napoleon ( 7 ) This is an eighteenth-century man-trap ( 8 ) Mary is in love with that fellow over there ( 9 ) It is now 12.15 The sentences are true , respectively , just in case the addressee is indeed the mother of Napoleon , the object currently being indicated by the speaker is indeed an eighteenth-century man-trap , Mary is indeed in love with the fellow in the location indicated by the speaker , and at the time of speaking it is indeed 12.15 . |
| 27 | If we slip up they 'll all join us in the wide blue yonder or whatever . |
| 28 | So the mysteries of migration routes , which prompted this brief foray into the biological and geological past , is only one of a myriad miraculous facets of nature , of the greater Mind , that tells us of the great planetary drama in which life has existed , maintained within such finely balanced parameters , for hundreds of millions , if not billions of years . |
| 29 | So we have four , five six , seven , eight , nine we have n't even got enough to see us through the next twelve months . |
| 30 | And that leaves us with the second alternative . |