Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | September ICI wins Us Environmental Protection Agency Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award for the commercial introduction of ‘ Klea ’ 32 . |
| 2 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 3 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 4 | The glass cone at Lemington , although incomplete , is one of few such survivals in Britain , and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the ‘ English nation their handicraft ’ , which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans . |
| 5 | The first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy may be converted from one form to another without any of it being destroyed . |
| 6 | The Guidance tells us that " minor shortcomings in health care or minor deficits in physical , psychological or social development " should not justify proceedings unless they are having , or are likely to have , " serious and lasting effects on the child " ( para 3.21 ) . |
| 7 | The Guidance tells us that interim orders represent a substantial , if temporary , intervention in the child 's life and " should not be regarded as routine parts of an application for a full care or supervision order " ( vol 1 , para 3.38 ) . |
| 8 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 9 | And maybe that 's why Lampi dazzles us these days with a solo encore of Weather Report 's famous Birdland groove . |
| 10 | While such links proliferate in affluent countries , the global scope of drugs-related crime , political violence and AIDS reminds us that poor countries are far from immune . |
| 11 | ‘ David gives us that little bit extra , though we wanted to play the same tight 4–4-2 formation . |
| 12 | The fact that one of the Bill 's triggers was the Channel 4 Screening of Derek Jarman 's Sebastiane gives us some indication of the possible threats to homosexual images on television . |
| 13 | A useful mnemonic reminds us that movement with the heavens is passive ; movement against the sun and moon and the stars is aggressive and/or courageous ! |
| 14 | But , though there is no engagement ring yet on Jill 's finger , that look in her sparkling eyes gives us all the best possible hope . |
| 15 | He described the views of some American politicians that ‘ Nicaragua threatens US national security and that there are , or shortly will be , Soviet military bases there ’ as ‘ too fanciful ’ to merit much attention . |
| 16 | The variability in the clinical course of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease as described in this study makes us reluctant to advise a regimen such as alternate day corticosteroids from the time of diagnosis . |
| 17 | We rarely get out at night , because keeping up with the little fella leaves us dog-tired . |
| 18 | Being able to anticipate the demands of the future makes us less vulnerable to stress . |
| 19 | Malcolm Payne offers us psychodynamic social work as an example , and clearly this is his chosen theory . |
| 20 | So please do n't complain , Sharon — the cruel hand of fate affects us all ! |
| 21 | The weasel charges us fifteen dollars for a five dollar trip . |
| 22 | Consideration of this question requires us first to examine what is generally understood by conservatism . |
| 23 | And now work awaits us both . |
| 24 | For example , Karl Popper admonishes us that |
| 25 | Odd-Knut tells us that to ask a Lapp that question is like asking an Englishman how much money he has in the bank . |
| 26 | All contemporary hues , every scrap of modern dialogue , every present mood , every tabloid headline , every bell clanging across the meadow tells us this . |
| 27 | The Tesco Cares campaign gives us all a chance to help . |
| 28 | Ms Meckler gives us all of Shaw 's poetic tragedy : what she misses is his comic subtlety . |
| 29 | In this book , we assume that the similarity between the transformational process and our diagnostic test arises because the former was formulated in response to intuitions about the fact that the properties of many ( but not all ! ) adjectives could be considered valid for the E qualified in both the P positions in : ( 7 ) P E E P In any case , the test gives us two different ways in which the adjective French may be used with its noun , and the examples show that it does not always designate a property of the entity to which it appears to be attached syntactically . |
| 30 | Gilroy reminds us that black political protest in the streets and urban crime have very successfully become fused in the public eye . |