Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 2 | That is significant because that covers us for paying you commission . |
| 3 | That blessed us with the vision faith had won , |
| 4 | The whole question of our relations with the Americans on atomic energy questions seems to me bound up with the larger issue of the extent to which the Americans are prepared to treat us on more or less equal terms as a first-class power . |
| 5 | God does n't stand over us like an angry judge wanting to convict us and sentence us ; rather he watches over us with love and tenderness , always willing to forgive us for our misdemeanours and mistakes . |
| 6 | We hope that many practitioners will be willing to support us in this effort . |
| 7 | ‘ Then , the British got us into the mess . ’ |
| 8 | At the same moment two Bf109s which had obviously stationed themselves too high to catch us in our initial attack , flashed past in a steep dive and then I was within range of the remaining Italian pilots once again . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This provided us with fantastic entertainment , and more seriously , a talking point about respecting peoples views — particularly within our church communities . |
| 11 | Philip VI did so at Crécy in 1346 ; John II was captured at the battle of Poitiers in 1356 ; Charles VII personally led the assault on Pontoise in 1441 ; while on the English side Edward III and Henry V provide us with excellent examples of the martial qualities demonstrated by certain kings . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The English beat us in Cardiff , the French destroyed us , it 's really very bad . |
| 14 | Apparently the retired sea captain , in whose house we were billeted , was willing to provide us with beds ashore , but nothing else . |
| 15 | ‘ This allows us to wheel incubators , wheelchairs , and trolley cots up a gently-inclined ramp without any trouble . ’ |
| 16 | This allows us to be patient in the face of the daily frustrations of life . |
| 17 | This allows us to built mixed consultancy teams to fit the need and , in many cases , we can provide experimental validation of the software . |
| 18 | This allows us in particular to consider the criticisms made by Prest . |
| 19 | Modern conditions have involved us in rivalry of armaments which is now a conscious struggle to achieve by expenditure and science , by diplomacy and alliances , a balance of power which always eludes us , and because it is always variable and unstable condemns us to a bloodless battle , a dry warfare of steel and gold . |
| 20 | PC Paul Lewis of Leicestershire Police , said : ‘ This shows us in an unfair light . |
| 21 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
| 22 | This leads us to one of the main problems in this sort of computer-based study . |
| 23 | This leads us to a discussion of the concept of ‘ information management ’ . |
| 24 | This leads us to the most widely adopted material for kite sails , Ripstop Nylon |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This leads us to a fundamental distinction in the character of critical judgements , a distinction between what I shall call internal and external criteria of judgement . |
| 27 | But this leads us to another possible answer to the question . |
| 28 | This leads us to a brief discussion of the developments within these fields since the time when the early sociologists were working . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This leads us into the next stage of whole-healing , namely diet . |