Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence identification of antigenic determinants of IgA response may lead us towards antibody responses likely to be important in parasite clearance . |
| 2 | The accumulation of life 's experience should make us at our wisest when we are old . |
| 3 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |
| 4 | Prejudice may lead us into aggressive attitudes towards some person or group . |
| 5 | Acceptance of our City Challenge bid would enable us to wrought that miracle far more quickly . ’ |
| 6 | Presumably the interplay of political and economic self-interest of government in industry will bring us to their goal . |
| 7 | All kinds of little situations like this can cause enormous problems , so having a bit of extra muscle-power will insure us against possible injury . |
| 8 | Many physiologists believe that an exhaustive study of the types of stimuli that increase or decrease the discharge rates of different types of sensory system cell will provide us with a description of how that system works . |
| 9 | The fact that a particular sort of rationality is of our very essence explains why rational thinking can lead us to ethical self control . |
| 10 | We can define the unknown in broad terms — " What would increase our margins here ? " — and this is really defining a search area In essence a question tells us the answer with which we would be satisfied : if our thinking can get us to this point we can stop that line of thinking . |
| 11 | The writer then explores what research can tell us about the impact of national policies on families , the impact of community attitudes , children 's experiences of divorce and step-families and some of the traumas children suffer in the course of family life , sometimes so great that they are driven to run away and then incur other serious problems for which inadequate provision is made in the community as a whole . |
| 12 | When it reached the stage in the title year when it looked as though the scum might beat us to it , if they had have done , it would have been largely due to the difference between Whyte/Fairclough and Pallister/Bruce . |
| 13 | Not even the bitter dawn cold could keep us from standing , time and time again , to feast on the sights that rumbled by : mountains , dwellings , beasts and people ; then tiny white-sailed craft on the timeless blue of Lake Titicaca . |
| 14 | In past centuries , shortages of military manpower used to force us into alliances with continental powers . |
| 15 | I would also add to that that I think such work would help us in terms of targeting more effectively the existing resources we have in terms of service delivery . |
| 16 | It might seem that a simple complement of the analysis offered above for acquired equivalence would supply us with a mechanism for acquired distinctiveness . |
| 17 | Cotton would catch us with our trousers down , and no mistake . ’ |
| 18 | So we 're looking for two additional representatives on this parish council to be our nominees on the management committee , and the management committee will present us with proposals to buy the ground in due course . |
| 19 | Your support for our work will enable us to be even more effective . |
| 20 | Too close an identification will blind us to the shortcomings of the institutional Church , so that church growth becomes denominational aggrandisement . |
| 21 | 4 wins on the trot will put us on course . |
| 22 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that our friends and allies round the world who may be faced with potentially aggressive neighbours are entitled to look to us for support in arms sales , for example , of the Challenger tank which is made in Leeds , and that nothing proposed on restricting arms sales generally in the interests of world peace will prevent us from supporting our allies in circumstances where that is necessary ? |
| 23 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 24 | As violent crime against elderly people seems to increase , the resulting moral outcry can blind us to the fact that huge numbers of elderly people are abused in their own homes by carers — sons , daughters , husbands , wives , other relatives as friends , and paid carers . |
| 25 | This sort of work can supply us with clues to the possible way of life of our ancestors , but it does n't really contribute much information about our origins . |
| 26 | Your own time-table could help us to that . ’ |
| 27 | But this conclusion should lead us to an accommodation between dualism and monism rather than the rejection of one in favour of the other . |
| 28 | We should hope that a theory of the first sort would help us with questions of the second sort , but we could not , I think , require in advance that this be so . |
| 29 | It is not far away ; an hour 's journey through the Forest would bring us to the shore from which it can be seen . |
| 30 | Er I hope that now that Anne who is our very capable financial director will enlighten us with a breakdown of costs and an insight into targets with attendant indicators of relative volumes . |