Example sentences of "[noun sg] tell us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 2 | But much exists in their architecture to tell us of the social conditions , wealth , success or decline of towns . |
| 3 | Ayer tells us in the next paragraph : |
| 4 | First , what does the Yugoslav experience tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the ‘ import-led growth ’ strategy ? |
| 5 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 6 | What does the evidence tell us about the quality and character between parents and children in Britain ? |
| 7 | I think er , Joe , it might be more appropriate perhaps if our legal advisor tells us of the niceties of the clause which he drafted . |
| 8 | What can this theory tell us about the changes in the UK economy 's international position in the structural changes of the 1970s/1980s ? |
| 9 | The volume telling us of the coming of salvation to Israel is complete with the death and resurrection of Jesus . |
| 10 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |
| 11 | IT WAS THE YEAR that electric cars were big but two-strokes were bigger as Jaguar told us of a supercharged two-stroke future and Pininfarina let us drive the Ethos . |
| 12 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
| 13 | The speaker told us about the role of the health visitor and how it was a separate profession to nursing . |
| 14 | Doreen 's letter told us about the mysterious sickness . |
| 15 | How much does the Gordon growth model tell us about the determinants of the price — earnings ratio ? |
| 16 | So what does our analysis tell us about the underlying , or basic causes of the so-called ‘ British disease ’ ? |
| 17 | Science tells us about the structural and relational properties of objects , while consciousness tells us what they are qualitatively like . |
| 18 | For example , historical materialism may have a lot to tell us about the political economy of immigrant labour and the unequal exchange between metropolitan capitalism and the third world , but it has proved quite incapable of grasping the micro-foundations of racist ideologies . |
| 19 | Given the favourable non-wage labour cost which the minister told us about a moment ago , how does he justify the enormous discrepancy in wages between England and Wales as an average and areas like South Wales and Northumberland where average weekly earnings are up to sixty five pounds less than the average and will he explain to us why the government is not tackling huge wage differentials in this country ? |
| 20 | What can ethnography tell us about the big issues ? |
| 21 | What does the survey tell us about the life-style of middleclass men in the UK today ? |
| 22 | Even if the order to which the Minister referred a few minutes ago is introduced , what can the Minister tell us about the Government 's thinking on what the timetable will be ? |
| 23 | To answer this question I followed Orwell 's first metaphor for working-class poverty and asked the question : what does intermittent itinerancy tell us about the conditions that produce the poverty of women ? |