Example sentences of "[det] [to-vb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Fisher Row is a special case , but Dr Prior 's fascinating study has much to teach us about other occupational groups within our urban societies . |
| 3 | Carol is not , of course , a ‘ typical ’ child , nor is Dorothy a ‘ typical ’ mother , but the book has much to tell us about one child 's perception of books and their contents . |
| 4 | ‘ Will it hurt too much to tell us about him ? ’ |
| 5 | Far from being unimportant , the study of administration and institutions has much to tell us about the increasing effectiveness of the state and central government in an aspect of government growing more important with every passing year . |
| 6 | The shroud thrown over the subordination of women in the mining communities has much to tell us about the myth of the " archetypical proletarians ' . |
| 7 | It is because these qualities are so abundantly visible in photography today that the medium has some claim on our attention : photography still has much to tell us about the way the world looks and the experience of living in it . |
| 8 | It can be argued that Reich 's work has much to tell us about contemporary politics . |
| 9 | It has much to tell us of how the local landscape has developed , and we can read the clues , if we know how to examine the building and its surroundings . |
| 10 | Se , we need someone first of all to save us from our sin . |
| 11 | It also claims our allegiance because it offers to protect our lives , limbs , and property , although it does little to protect us from predatory corporations . |
| 12 | ‘ Despite the environmental carnage around the wreck , the sullying of the Shetland name and the ensuing loss of livelihood at the heart of our fragile economy the Government has done very little to protect us from another spill , ’ she said . |
| 13 | And he 'll use that to keep us at a distance . |
| 14 | We bribed the guide with silver and a promise of more to take us to Leicester . |
| 15 | Erm so we ou and carrier bags , we may have enough to carry us through the show , I do n't know . |
| 16 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 17 | So we have four , five six , seven , eight , nine we have n't even got enough to see us through the next twelve months . |
| 18 | Health expenditure increased , but not by enough to lift us to a comparable position with our main industrial competitors . |
| 19 | All this should have been enough to turn us from a nation of householders into a nation of shareholders . |
| 20 | Got enough to get us by . |
| 21 | sets us at a painterly remove from decorously observed suffering and does little to prepare us for the replacement of the distant tangled hair of Ariadne by immediate presence of the directly primitive |
| 22 | Genesis has very little to tell us about Isaac . |