Example sentences of "[prep] us that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have realised earlier than most of us that the King was in the long run unfitted to be King . |
| 2 | Other than that , I would hope this meeting do agree on the recommendations of us that the road is accepted |
| 3 | He 's really dealing with that whole idea of the image of the self and the reflection in the water being much bigger and more interesting to all of us that the reality of who Jeff Koons is , ’ Rifkin says . |
| 4 | Jock instilled into us that the end product of our training was for us to become independent in every way , operating either alone or in very small groups . |
| 5 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |
| 6 | It is no benefit to us that the work is produced in Edinburgh , because we are not getting it . |
| 7 | It seems to us that the Bill would be open to criticism if it had to rely on provisions such as those in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 44(3) and ( 4 ) . |
| 8 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 9 | ‘ Then the fact that she will will be a sign to us that the hope she gives is not in vain . |
| 10 | In the context of the rest of chapter 29 , as already set out , it seems clear to us that the delay or deferment means , at its lowest , wrongful delay or deferment , such as is not justified by the circumstances of the case . |
| 11 | ‘ It is just not practical to have 80 homeless people living here with one warden looking after them and it seems to us that the council have just shot into this without thinking . ’ |
| 12 | Monsieur Truffer confirmed to us that the crew must have died instantly — if they had not already been killed by the anti-aircraft fire . |
| 13 | There is little to suggest to us that the housing or goods of Sussex labourers varied much from those of their late medieval predecessors . |
| 14 | Now , said Ray , the work has ‘ helped us narrow down the source rock to one or two possibilities , and it has indicated to us that the source rock does not vary across the region . ’ |
| 15 | The Birmingham Money Advice Centre pointed out to us that the sort of people who use this type of weekly credit would otherwise often be unable to get credit at all , and stressed the danger of making business difficult for lenders who might be relatively expensive but the only available credit resource for some people . |
| 16 | Previous reports on B-cell differentiation in XLA ( refs 2 , 28 ) suggested to us that the disease gene may be expressed throughout B lymphocyte development . |
| 17 | It appears to us that the point is a thoroughly esoteric one because it postulates that the judges had consented to arrangements for the Inns to exercise disciplinary powers over barristers , subject to their supervision , which infringed some fairly elementary rules of natural justice . |
| 18 | There is utter and total confusion and anything that stands still they used to say they would paint it in industry they now say market test it and they do admit to us that the end object does not necessarily mean complete contractorization or privatization , but at this particular moment in time |
| 19 | The jury may in some cases put two and two together , but it seems to us that the effect of section 58 is such that the balance of fairness between prosecution and defence can not be maintained unless proper comment is permitted on the defendant 's silence in such circumstances . |
| 20 | It does seem to us that the impetus is lost if the library committee is either unable or unwilling to continue its work or if key individuals in the project subsequently leave the school . |
| 21 | It seems to us that the House of Lords today might come to another conclusion . |