Example sentences of "[vb base] we [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us contrast those achievements with Labour 's record in office . |
| 2 | Let us fulfil that purpose , not for own advantage , but out of our duty to the people of our country and the people of our world . |
| 3 | Let us assume that DHA 1 does that and its capital charge reduces from £2.2m to £2.0m . |
| 4 | First , let us assume fixed proportions in production . |
| 5 | Leaving aside the question of which came first , let us assume active interest on the part of the man , and a potential interest on the part of the woman . |
| 6 | Let us relate this statement to the example above . |
| 7 | Let us study three birds which are very different in anatomy and lifestyle . |
| 8 | Let us give special thought today to those people who have devoted their lives to helping the poor and needy in impoverished parts of the world . |
| 9 | For one more example , let us compare two terms which will be familiar to many readers ; when the phrase logical theory is used , an obvious difference of meaning is involved , depending on whether we are talking about a theory which has the characteristic of being logical ( with ascriptive interpretation of the adjective ) or about a theory which is concerned with aspects of logic ( associative use ) . |
| 10 | First let us exclude all cases where we are concerned with something which actually is , or is taken to be , a bull or cow or calf in a real or imagined external world , when the use is plainly ascriptive . |
| 11 | ( perhaps one should say that as such a psychological statement it would express my awareness that I have the belief rather than my belief that I have the belief , since belief is not quite the right word in this context , but let us leave such qualifications to be understood . ) |
| 12 | Come , let us leave this chaos . ’ |
| 13 | But let us regard that stage as over , there was a gesture to be made , and you have made it , and I am grateful ! |
| 14 | Let us distinguish two cases . |
| 15 | Again , from our vantage point , we know that each is suited to a particular kind of flight and life style ; but let us ignore that fact , and continue with the primitive analysis . |
| 16 | Let us skirt round professor Joan Bicknell , a major authority in child psychiatry . |
| 17 | Let us retain this distinction from ‘ acting ’ by using the term ‘ presentation ’ in a sense akin to what Goffman ( 1969 ) means by ‘ presentation of self in everyday life ’ . |
| 18 | Let us make one comparison . |
| 19 | Secondly , to make the mathematics easier , let us make some assumptions . |
| 20 | Let us conclude this section on protection by tabulating our analysis . |
| 21 | Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it . |
| 22 | The mathematics of the equilibrium are still by no means certain , but let us pass that problem by , to consider an experimental test of the theory . |
| 23 | Let us abandon that assumption and see what happens . |
| 24 | So let us promote better health for the population that we have at present instead of experimenting with high-cost technology . |
| 25 | For example , let us suppose that depreciation depends only on the age of the car , not its mileage . |
| 26 | Let us suppose that male and female each have an active and a passive means of expressing light . |
| 27 | Let us do this problem again , but now we will use algebra to work out the boy 's weight . |
| 28 | I shall be elaborating upon this point in a short while , but for the moment let us observe that fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete , ineffectual and impoverished . |
| 29 | Let us examine these points . |
| 30 | So let us examine this problem of ‘ force feeding ’ more closely . |