Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] us [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feynman offers us a simple way to see that this happens . |
| 2 | As we have seen , the removal of a core-electron requires an energy characteristic primarily of the atom concerned , so this technique offers us the ability to identify the constituent atoms of any sample . |
| 3 | ‘ We believe that Power Fluidics offers us a unique opportunity , and we are delighted to be at the forefront of the application of this technology . |
| 4 | King David shows us the way when he says , ‘ It is good to give thanks to the Lord … and make thy praise our pride . ’ |
| 5 | Much of the work evaluated in this chapter takes us a long way towards identifying mechanisms for triggering the need for investment , screening the proposals and defining them . |
| 6 | The result gives us a breathing space , but there is still the risk of a private member 's Bill . ’ |
| 7 | Community Action gives us the opportunity to do that and more , on a fairly large scale . |
| 8 | SOLE GIVES US A LECTURE |
| 9 | A brief look at the content of the women 's programme gives us a flavour of how homosexuality was represented : a good deal of time was devoted to an interview with Steve , a prospective female-to-male transsexual ( displaying a common confusion with homosexuality and transsexuality ) . |
| 10 | Defoe gives us a splendid picture of an industrial landscape in the time of Queen Anne or shortly after . |
| 11 | Planning our future gives us a greater sense of internal control and increases self-esteem . |
| 12 | ‘ Tencel reminds us a lot of gaberdine slacks . |
| 13 | A shrewd aid programme does us a favour . |
| 14 | Quine offers us a theory rich in asymmetries of the same sort . |
| 15 | When Fate hands us a lemon , let us try to make lemonade . |
| 16 | And Bergman 's film Wild Strawberries shows us an elderly professor at the peak of his career , about to receive the highest academic honour in the land , who dreams the night before of failing an examination . |
| 17 | The clear majority view in my group in Brussels is that though not perfect Maastricht takes us a step in the right direction , setting about building the sense of a community on the market place created by the nineteen eighty seven Single Act . |
| 18 | FREED from a lift in his Harare hotel , the Bearded Wonder sends us a ‘ Weather hot , cricket wonderful ’ postcard from Zimbabwe . |
| 19 | Eventually , Lorraine tells us the way to Siobhan 's new house . |
| 20 | Metaphor denies us a literal sense , and so induces us to make sense , ie to find interpretations beyond the truth-functional meaning captured by paraphrase . |
| 21 | We can define the unknown in broad terms — " What would increase our margins here ? " — and this is really defining a search area In essence a question tells us the answer with which we would be satisfied : if our thinking can get us to this point we can stop that line of thinking . |
| 22 | It 's obvious : unless work gives us a buzz , we wo n't give our best . |
| 23 | But the fact that you were a close and dear friend to my parents gives us a close bond , nevertheless . |
| 24 | Stott gives us a thoughtful ‘ Ondine ’ , but the music does not move along very naturally and this water nymph is not sufficiently seductive and dangerous . |
| 25 | In the same little volume Boulestin gives us an explanation of the old-fashioned French custom of serving a vegetable before the roast — an explanation which contains also some sound gastronomic advice : |
| 26 | Thus the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act promises us a new approach to service provision that puts the needs of users and carers first . |
| 27 | " Few at the moment , but money buys us a lot of friends . |
| 28 | Moreover — and more to the point — if as literary intellectuals we feel frustrated at having no channel of access to the figures who exercise decision-making power in our societies , Mrs Lowndes shows us a society in which literary intelligence had direct access to such centres of power , by way of the conjugal bed as well as over the dinner table . |
| 29 | The short story shows us a character at a crucial instant in her life ( parallels with the fairy tale emerge here ) and traces the effect of that instant upon her . |
| 30 | This picture offers us a useful parallel with the Handel portrait dating from about 1728 and has the same kind of confidential candour . |