Example sentences of "[verb] us to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mr. Ashworth helpfully referred us to a substantial number of United States decisions .
2 Such an exhibition , and its permanent record in the lavishly illustrated new book edited by Wendy Roworth , should alert us to the rich possibilities offered by serious reassessment of the work of such a varied , complex and intellectual artist as Angelica Kauffman .
3 We invited Corpus Christi to tea and they in turn invited us to a sumptuous Sunday brunch in their garden overlooking Christ Church meadow .
4 They do n't direct us to the late survival of a gypsy paradise .
5 Dzo bells lulled us to sleep and then woke us to a clear and sunny morning .
6 Our enjoyment of his resourcefulness can ( temporarily ! ) blind us to the moral significance of his actions .
7 There were no roads direct from the station to where the world began , but the carriage drivers , squatting over their breakfasts , directed us to an abandoned railway line which cut across country .
8 ‘ They drove us to a lonely creek , ’ she said .
9 So we might in fact simplify this by saying these are the enabling factors if you like , to leave home these are the motivating factors pulling us to a certain destination .
10 Another Greek has cut down a Trojan who falls under the handle , leading us to the other side .
11 Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’
12 We see then that the idea introduces us to a radical gospel which brings an uncomfortable message to our hearts .
13 Holland thus leads us to a dynamic and important role of reading : ‘ The psychoanalytic theory of literature holds that the writer expresses and disguises childhood fantasies .
14 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 .
15 His devotional works are full of joy ; religion , he said , ‘ leads us to a huge felicity through pleasant ways ’ .
16 This leads us to a brief discussion of the developments within these fields since the time when the early sociologists were working .
17 That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual .
18 Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions :
19 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 .
20 This last point leads us to an important , but frequently misunderstood , concept in the analysis of discourse .
21 The desire for a hefty structure on a night like this , leads us to an enormous flashy hotel .
22 Modern conditions have involved us in rivalry of armaments which is now a conscious struggle to achieve by expenditure and science , by diplomacy and alliances , a balance of power which always eludes us , and because it is always variable and unstable condemns us to a bloodless battle , a dry warfare of steel and gold .
23 Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance .
24 Talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ commits us to an inappropriate way of looking at the matter — as though the only difference between understanding understanding and understanding sweating is that in the case of understanding understanding our gaze is directed inwards .
25 If the medium of issue is magnetic then the indefinite maintenance of bit-perfect records commits us to an active program of periodic renewal and integrity checking , or a one-off transfer to a more permanent medium .
26 Our second association item takes us to a late autumn in the next reign .
27 BILLED as a family show , Dragon : A Fairytale With Claws ( National Theatre , Olivier ) takes us to a far away land where a tyrant demands the annual sacrifice of a young village lass to satisfy his blood lust .
28 A consideration of two dreams in Shakespeare 's plays takes us to a similar conclusion .
29 To use the landscape itself as the stage or background for artistic expression takes us to the very boundaries of art until , as we step across , we realize that the whole of life is , or could be , Art .
30 Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices .
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