Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ? |
| 2 | After his show yesterday we asked Fluff to tell us about the most memorable records from his 32-year career . |
| 3 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 4 | The boss congratulates us about the handling of a recent matter and the interview ends . |
| 5 | Instead , Mauriac tells us about the books he 's read , the painters he 's liked , the plays he 's seen . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you see Tamar 's face when Stephen told us about the groom — Davis , was it ? ’ |
| 7 | Since this is , in effect , as much an oblique comment on the present as a literal interpretation of the past , what such accounts tell us about the quality of village life in the past must be handled with considerable scepticism . |
| 8 | First , what does the Yugoslav experience tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the ‘ import-led growth ’ strategy ? |
| 9 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 10 | What can the Irish experience teach us about the relationship between the STV and PR ? |
| 11 | We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter . |
| 12 | These studies tell us about the broad pattern of movement between school and work . |
| 13 | What does the evidence tell us about the quality and character between parents and children in Britain ? |
| 14 | Our crewmates warned us about the Biranese girls ' reputation as practitioners of a dangerous form of magic which could trap a man on their island for ever ; then they disappeared ashore into the backstreets . |
| 15 | After all , ITN 's bulletins have made no attempts to deceive us about the influence of Iraqi minders over Sadler 's reports . |
| 16 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 17 | What can this theory tell us about the changes in the UK economy 's international position in the structural changes of the 1970s/1980s ? |
| 18 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
| 19 | The speaker told us about the role of the health visitor and how it was a separate profession to nursing . |
| 20 | Doreen 's letter told us about the mysterious sickness . |
| 21 | How much does the Gordon growth model tell us about the determinants of the price — earnings ratio ? |
| 22 | With an agreeable mixture of personal and scientific detail , Robertson tells us about the early Australian work on radio emission from the Sun , the planets and the mysterious radio ‘ stars ’ ( point sources ) and explains how the 21-cm line from interstellar hydrogen was used to map the spiral arms of our Galaxy ; he also describes the development of the solar radio spectrograph by Paul Wild and of the high resolution ‘ cross ’ antennae by Bernard Mills and Wilbur Christiansen . |
| 23 | So what does our analysis tell us about the underlying , or basic causes of the so-called ‘ British disease ’ ? |
| 24 | Then Kier tells us about the time she saw a UFO . |
| 25 | Science tells us about the structural and relational properties of objects , while consciousness tells us what they are qualitatively like . |
| 26 | For example , historical materialism may have a lot to tell us about the political economy of immigrant labour and the unequal exchange between metropolitan capitalism and the third world , but it has proved quite incapable of grasping the micro-foundations of racist ideologies . |
| 27 | What can ethnography tell us about the big issues ? |
| 28 | What does the survey tell us about the life-style of middleclass men in the UK today ? |
| 29 | Even if the order to which the Minister referred a few minutes ago is introduced , what can the Minister tell us about the Government 's thinking on what the timetable will be ? |
| 30 | To answer this question I followed Orwell 's first metaphor for working-class poverty and asked the question : what does intermittent itinerancy tell us about the conditions that produce the poverty of women ? |