Example sentences of "us that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctors tell us that elderly pilots and pilots who smoke should be aware that their tolerance to a shortage of oxygen is lower than younger people 's or that of non-smokers . |
| 2 | Experiences , they argued , are identical with brain states ; but when someone is conscious of his experiences he is not conscious of his brain as such : it takes modern science to tell us that consciousness is a state of the brain . |
| 3 | It takes science to come along and tell us that what is going on under these circumstances is a brain process , let alone to tell us which brain process it is . |
| 4 | But , although it tries , it fails to persuade us that with Greek drama we are not secular theatre-goers but communicants in a religious mystery . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson tell us that government policy is the last of these : Britain will become a full member of the EMS when France and Italy abolish exchange controls and when our inflation rate is similar to that of other EMS members . |
| 6 | But he gave us that there . |
| 7 | All of us that is except uncle Eugenio , who had never been to see a film , saying that it was a fraud , all illusion , and that when the lights went up and all the characters disappeared the screen was no more than a rag . |
| 8 | Rosemary Jackson is surely right to remind us that ‘ fantasy is not … transcendental . |
| 9 | Odd-Knut tells us that to ask a Lapp that question is like asking an Englishman how much money he has in the bank . |
| 10 | ‘ We hoped you 'd be able to tell us that , ’ said Burden . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm hoping you 'll be able to tell us that . ’ |
| 12 | My mother had a big spread waiting for us that evening When we got cleared up , and then it was time to report to the UDR base for patrol duty . |
| 13 | And if the State denies us that right of individual choice then , although it might shower us with gifts , it is robbing us of our deepest , profoundest freedom , that upon which all other freedoms depend , and so the State , any State , which denies God 's ultimate gift must be opposed . ’ |
| 14 | Hip-hop tells us that city life is impoverished , that real violence , as opposed to the symbolic stare-downs , is horrific . |
| 15 | ‘ On November 1 they told us that normal Christmas arrangements would apply — that we would work for most of the holiday period — then they dropped this bombshell on November 22 and said we would be off for two weeks . |
| 16 | David told us that swan pattern of movement was currently being monitored in the north-east , so he was trying to read the leg bands through his glass . |
| 17 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 18 | Unless we make it trivially true that gold is malleable , by explicitly including malleability in our idea of it , we can perceive no connection between the ideas of gold and malleability ; our observation and experiment do not tell us that gold must be malleable ; we have no knowledge that it is . |
| 19 | He gives us that space to grow into the maturity he wants from each of us : freedom to think , freedom to pray in our own way , freedom to worship according to our temperament and inclination . |
| 20 | For us that entire world-view has disappeared . |
| 21 | ‘ Give us that piece of wire , ’ said Philip . |
| 22 | ‘ They gave us that big build-up . |
| 23 | For Zen teaches us that love breeds fear , and fear breeds hatred , and hatred breeds violence , in a neve-rending , vicious circle . |
| 24 | Yet we hear so much in chapters 1–3 of the faithlessness of men in high positions in Israel ( chapter 4 will tell us that Eli was not only high priest at Shiloh but for forty years ‘ judge ’ in Israel , the one in whom resided the greatest political and spiritual as well as judicial authority among all the tribes ) . |
| 25 | Jewish law teaches us that sex is equally important between a married couple who wish to have children and between a couple where the woman may be infertile or menopausal . |
| 26 | It suits us that haste is made slowly and that we have to think and plan before we commit ourselves . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | The modern films are scientifically more respectable and probably better films , but every word of commentary trembles with piety and no chance is ever missed to remind us that man is the intruder , the destroyer , the only sinful animal in the biosphere . |
| 29 | Whenever the corps de ballet came on stage , they reminded us that tradition and dance accomplishment are very much alive and well in St Petersburg . |
| 30 | A Saga Holidays spokeswoman has told us that Saga contracted rooms with the Roman Hotel a year ago for this season . |