Example sentences of "this [verb] us [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This provided us with an opportunity to investigate the whales to see if we could discover anything about them that might explain why they had beached themselves . |
| 2 | This leads us to a discussion of the concept of ‘ information management ’ . |
| 3 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
| 4 | Our concern then Mr Mayor is to see social housing used correctly , for those in greatest need and this leads us to the conclusion that means testing is the best way to ensure , is positive discrimination in favour of people in such need . |
| 5 | He then goes on to say that after her death he loved her more than when she was alive — this leads us into a trap , for we begin to feel that the old man was a ghoulish sentimentalist . |
| 6 | But this leads us into the area of secularisation that has been the most damaging to the Christian church . |
| 7 | Not only does this provide us with the content to be taught , but it also lays the foundation on which final assessment can be based ; however , before we can devise our objectives , two further collections of information are needed . |
| 8 | ‘ Our area has been pedestrianised , and while we are convinced that this benefited us in the summer , it worked against us in the winter . |
| 9 | It also provides a clinical procedure for treating some psychological conditions , but this takes us beyond the scope of the present book . |
| 10 | This takes us into an area of discussion — what has broadly come to be known as ‘ the environment ’ — which will be dealt with in the following chapter . |
| 11 | This takes us into the realm of language . |
| 12 | This forewarns us of the issue of SELECTION which will be taken up in Chapter 2 . |
| 13 | Given that all those involved were volunteers , and had been chosen at random to be guards or prisoners , what does this tell us about the influence of power on human behaviour ? |
| 14 | Returning to the central theme of the present chapter , electrical activity can be correlated with behaviour and this helps us towards an understanding of the neural mechanisms and cognitive processes underlying behaviour . |
| 15 | This compensates us for the cost of processing your booking , advertising your holiday for sale , and reflects the risk that the holiday may remain unsold . |
| 16 | This presented us with a problem . |
| 17 | Er and thi this lead us to a list of things to do . |
| 18 | If we persist in interpreting virginity and motherhood only in a physical sense this leaves us with a problem , and she once again becomes a burden by being an impossible act to follow . |
| 19 | Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming . |
| 20 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 21 | This brings us to a consideration of whether these programmes are capable of suggesting appropriate remedies . |
| 22 | This brings us to the subject of heat convection and heat loss . |
| 23 | This brings us to the problem of whether to leave serial harmony as it is , the product of a system , or to override the system and make the harmonic result our own . |
| 24 | This brings us to the problem of phonological recoding within sentence context . |
| 25 | This brings us to the relationship between citizenship and community . |
| 26 | This brings us to the concept of risk-sharing . |
| 27 | This brings us to the question central to the understanding of Queen Mary : the nature of Scottish monarchy , and the factors which made the relationship between kings and their subjects successful or unsuccessful . |
| 28 | This brings us to the question of those notoriously stuffy announcers . |
| 29 | This brings us to the question of how we should consider that portion of the surplus-value which is unproductively consumed . |
| 30 | This brings us to the question of truancy . |