Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , these cautionary comments should not dislodge us from the main point . |
| 2 | The marketing of the man should not blind us to the fact that he is a great artist , unafraid of engaging mass culture . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If , in popular music , these take on to some extent an ‘ automatic ’ quality , this should not blind us to the contradictory potentials of such historical continuities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the Miller 's Prologue , the Miller 's supposed drunkenness should not blind us to the measured good sense and balance of the mind implied within the character who speaks as the Miller . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( 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 . ) |
| 16 | They would n't serve us at the first few joints we tried , which was n't surprising , because we came through the door yelling our head off , or trying to , in this faulty new voice of ours . |
| 17 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 18 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 19 | The House will be interested to hear from another Scottish Labour Member of Parliament who will not tell us about the Labour party 's policy on Ravenscraig . |
| 20 | Even , Christian teaching will not educate us into the Kingdom of God ! |
| 21 | ‘ They wo n't know us at the station , in London , ’ said Jonathon suddenly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 24 | 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 . |