Example sentences of "[verb] us [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between the 13 C of atmospheric CO 2 and leaf carbon of maize ( and certain other C4 species ) is conservative across environments and did not vary significantly with [ CO 2 ] ( B.D.M. et al. , manuscript in preparation ) , enabling us to use the 13 C of C4 leaves as a proxy for the 13 C of chamber air . |
| 2 | And it has the advantage of enabling us to consider the two problems associated with terms and relations in a single context . |
| 3 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 4 | This applies to both the major components which the craftsman deliberately mixed together to form the final product , and also to the trace elements of which he was probably ignorant , but which can indicate the likely source of some of the materials , thus enabling us to distinguish the genuine from the spurious . |
| 5 | Despite the recession this helped us to retain the vast majority of our members and welcome new ones to our ranks . |
| 6 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 7 | The beliefs and behaviour of remote cultures challenge most profoundly our own ethnocentric experience and assumptions , and compel us to recognize the amazing variety and versatility of human social arrangements , moral standards , and cosmologies . |
| 8 | As we get older reality requires that the ideal and the self are reconciled ; ambitions are relaxed ; unrealistic goals are abandoned as time and opportunity compel us to change the idealized concept we have for ourselves . |
| 9 | The Primitive Methodists , whose work was mostly amongst working people , admitted with a sorrow they could not hide that ‘ the growing worldliness of men needs a faithful and independent ministry ; the increased educational facilities and the advance of science challenge us to put the best talent we can produce into the pulpit ’ . |
| 10 | It allows us to record the principal ideas , key concepts , competing explanatory theories and illustrations used . |
| 11 | It is with interval and ratio scales that we reach a level of measurement which allows us to use the standard arithmetic operations . |
| 12 | PRICE : Our excellent reputation and years of experience coupled with our overall size allows us to negotiate the best possible rates which of course , we pass on to our customers resulting in outstanding value without sacrificing any quality . |
| 13 | It allows us to segment the external world of experience in all manner of arbitrary ways and to create artificial internal worlds to suit our convenience . |
| 14 | This very innocence , however , allows us to see the powerful sexual element in the bourgeois world very clearly in its costume , an extraordinary combination of temptation and prohibition . |
| 15 | This model allows us to calculate the average trends in the binding energies of nuclei , but it predicts incorrectly that all nuclei should have a spherical shape , which varies as the cube root of the atomic weight , just as the radius of a liquid drop varies as the cube root of its mass . |
| 16 | Elizabeth 's father tried to stifle adult love in his children , so that the great courtship had to be conducted mainly by letter — luckily for us , as the correspondence between these two great writers allows us to follow the growing involvement of two passionate and generous people and enjoy the meeting of two lively and imaginative minds . |
| 17 | Acknowledging this interdependence allows us to make the courageous leap of ‘ letting in ’ the fetus , of rejecting the idea that it is simply a clump of cells , of taking it into our moral accounting and allowing it to make some claim on our attentions . |
| 18 | Where countries use their own devices to protect their domestic industries artificially from genuine overseas competition , they must expect us to do the same . |
| 19 | Music stimulates us to realize the Dionysiac metaphysical world in Apolline symbolism , which then , under the influence of music , acquires its highest significance . |
| 20 | It allowed us to do the same , if we wished , with our churches . ’ |
| 21 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 22 | All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it . |
| 23 | Considering inequalities once again leads us to consider the political machinery which is expected to deal with them — a machinery which itself contains and reinforces inequalities . |
| 24 | Marcia Pointon 's fascinating essay on the contemporary portrait leads us to question the central relationship between artist , sitter and spectator . |
| 25 | In any event , whatever the possible therapeutic role of such drugs , they are unlikely to be able to help us to understand the intimate mechanisms of memory . |
| 26 | Instead , BT is set to fill our TV screens with Mel Smith as ‘ Inspector Morose ’ , persuading us to buy the third lot of BT shares , which goes on sale in July . |
| 27 | The answer to this requires us to assess the relative centrality of sexual choice to life choices and living standards . |
| 28 | Early work focused on single cell correlates of sensory stimulation in anaesthetized animals , but advances over the last twenty years have enabled us to monitor the single-cell correlates of behavioural activity in alert , freely moving animals ( O'Keefe and Nadel 1978 ; Olds et al . |
| 29 | What this shows is that there is no simple relationship between domains , situations , generations or language preferences which will enable us to explain the linguistic behaviour of young British-born Caribbeans in London . |
| 30 | Perhaps the standard procedures will enable us to fix the relevant space spans for the interpretation of deictic expressions like here . |