Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] 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 | ‘ This allows us to wheel incubators , wheelchairs , and trolley cots up a gently-inclined ramp without any trouble . ’ |
4 | This allows us to be patient in the face of the daily frustrations of life . |
5 | This allows us to built mixed consultancy teams to fit the need and , in many cases , we can provide experimental validation of the software . |
6 | This allows us in particular to consider the criticisms made by Prest . |
7 | PC Paul Lewis of Leicestershire Police , said : ‘ This shows us in an unfair light . |
8 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
9 | This leads us to one of the main problems in this sort of computer-based study . |
10 | This leads us to a discussion of the concept of ‘ information management ’ . |
11 | This leads us to the most widely adopted material for kite sails , Ripstop Nylon |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | But this leads us to another possible answer to the question . |
15 | This leads us to a brief discussion of the developments within these fields since the time when the early sociologists were working . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | This leads us into the next stage of whole-healing , namely diet . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | But this leads us into the area of secularisation that has been the most damaging to the Christian church . |
20 | This keeps us in our place , although it frustrates us with a great deal of suffering . |
21 | This takes us to four fifteen . |
22 | It also provides a clinical procedure for treating some psychological conditions , but this takes us beyond the scope of the present book . |
23 | This takes us into the realm of language . |
24 | This takes us into the nebulous area of psychological assessment , but it is also the case that the supply of information must be of the right type and in the right form to enable human beings to respond and act correctly , especially the air traffic controllers and the flight crew . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | This takes us into some very interesting work about point of view . |
27 | This takes us into item three , this is the provision of service land , er , the |
28 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
29 | This forewarns us of the issue of SELECTION which will be taken up in Chapter 2 . |
30 | This prevents us from supposing that the conditional in question , to speak in the ontologically extravagant way , comes to this : in the possible world where it is raining , but everything else is the same as in this world save that the balcony is wet , the balcony is indeed wet . |