Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] us to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This figure of the diaspora returns us to one of the most important aspects of Levinas ' formulation of the relation of the ethical to the political , that is the connections which he makes between the structure of ontology and Eurocentrism , the latter ‘ disqualified ’ , as he puts it , ‘ by so many horrors ’ .
2 The task Gomez envisages for the black lesbian returns us to radical humanism , and both Fanon and Gide as important points of reference .
3 Our admission charge rations us to one programme .
4 Curiously , this futuristic notion returns us to one of the earliest electronic book models which we described in the original report .
5 Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development .
6 The sheer abundance of the commercial use of Bruce Weber 's imagery brings us to another feature of the selection here .
7 And Monday 's sports spot takes us to another look at the main news stories .
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