Example sentences of "[verb] us to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You love England , you above all want us to be successful . |
| 2 | ‘ Whatever Scotland 's team , I want us to be creative enough to make the Maltese worry without being in any way self conscious about problems that are in the past , ’ concluded the national coach . |
| 3 | You mean you want us to be kind to them . |
| 4 | ’ I want us to be positive , even though Chelsea deserve respect because of the very impressive run they 've had . |
| 5 | ‘ But I want us to be clear about what we 're doing . |
| 6 | It behoves us to be sceptical , then , about Victorian genealogical status symbols ; frequently there is an inverse proportion between the degree of pomp and the humble nature of the ancestry . |
| 7 | ‘ Father is afraid I 'll die soon , you see , so he wants us to be married tomorrow morning . |
| 8 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 9 | Confidence in God allows us to be gentle with others as we no longer struggle to assert our own plans and willpower over them . |
| 10 | This allows us to be patient in the face of the daily frustrations of life . |
| 11 | Game theory forces us to be precise about three sets of assumptions on which a model rests : |
| 12 | We 're only meeting friends , they 'll not expect us to be sober . ’ |
| 13 | In the wake of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail , when certain ‘ Christians ’ vehemently declared us to be anti-Christian , we could only shrug helplessly . |
| 14 | When I got there he was pleased to see me ; he seemed to expect us to be able to do something about his leg but of course we could n't . |
| 15 | ‘ This sort of thing can actually work out to a station 's ultimate advantage if handled correctly , which it has been , since you 've shown us to be flexible and public-spirited . |
| 16 | teaching us to be temperate in ourselves and moving mankind as a whole ‘ a little nearer the perilous safety of a warless and provident world . ’ |
| 17 | Each requires us to be able to produce a ( pseudo- ) random value , u k equally likely to lie anywhere in the range 0 to 1 . |
| 18 | Such reading requires us to be active and critical . |
| 19 | That was the one thing you warned us to be careful on , so that the benefit |
| 20 | Paul is not asking us to be passive . |
| 21 | This period enabled us to be sure that a single patient had a chronic and persistent history of symptoms of gastrooesophageal reflux . |
| 22 | We wonder if she has ever heard of chronic paranoid schizophrenia , and she tells us to be quiet . |
| 23 | Most of the major advances in the social sciences over the last two centuries , including the work of Freud and Marx , should lead us to be suspicious of any equation of importance with surface , suggesting that there are other forces both historical and unconscious which underlie this arena of language and linguistically articulated intent . |
| 24 | For the Spirit 's work in assurance is to give us a firm foundation to build on , not to make us arrogant ; the ‘ already ’ and the ‘ not yet ’ of the Spirit 's internal witness enable us to be sure without being cocksure . |
| 25 | I John gives several other ways which enable us to be confident of our new status . |
| 26 | Secondly , if it is not the rules of the sentence that enable us to be meaningful and to perceive meaning , then what is it ? |
| 27 | It would appear that God did not intend us to be fat . |
| 28 | He 'd only have wanted us to be happy . ’ |
| 29 | To help get this message across the Come & See Programme is designed to allow us to be frank and open about what we do and to allow the public to hear the true story behind nuclear power . |
| 30 | It 's crazy saying that when they 've forced us to be nomadic . |