Example sentences of "[noun] tells [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recent theories suggest the crossing place further down river at Rochester or Chatham , but Dunkin tells us the Roman Army ( the seventh and tenth legions ) then turned along through what is now Snodland and Halling burning and wasting the country as they advanced through the villages . |
| 2 | Er someone tells him that , a policeman tells him the best way to look at it is if you were locked out your house |
| 3 | The clear lines leading the eye to the altar where the focus of the Christian life is celebrated in the Eucharistic Sacrifice tells you a great deal about Bishop Harris . |
| 4 | BR 's journey planner tells you the quickest way from A to B. Shame it ca n't tell you which trains will run on time … |
| 5 | A full discussion of that issue is beyond the scope of this book , but I would agree with those commentators who argue that its persistence tells us a great deal more about the present than the past . |
| 6 | RICHARD ROLLE 'S conversion to the solitary life tells us a good deal about his spirituality . |
| 7 | This search for soft touches tells us a great deal about ourselves . |
| 8 | The supply curve SS tells us the marginal value of the leisure being sacrificed in order to work another hour , the marginal social cost of extra work . |
| 9 | The demand curve DD tells us the marginal value product of labour , the extra benefit society could have from extra goods produced . |