Example sentences of "[vb base] us to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our enjoyment of his resourcefulness can ( temporarily ! ) blind us to the moral significance of his actions . |
| 2 | Laughter here might anaesthetize our feelings , deaden us to the moral issue . |
| 3 | The festival days , the sacred plays and dance , the processions which move jangling through the villages at night quicken us to the hidden rhythms by which the island lives . |
| 4 | These two areas of convergence also direct us to the main area of divergence and the reason why , though in actuality inextricably related , the psychic and the cultural return of homosexuality still need to be distinguished . |
| 5 | But the narrow idea of bindingness does not in itself take us to a real ‘ ought ’ , to a genuine obligation ; it only says that if you are going to play the game of law this involves taking the rules and decisions as mandatory or non-optional . |
| 6 | These questions take us to the very heart not only of recent theological debate about Barth , but of the inner problematic of the entire development of modern theology as we are tracing it . |
| 7 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 8 | The texts of Roman law bring us to the intriguing conclusion that by late classical times the only person who acquired property under trust and with it an unassailable title was the bona fide purchaser for value without notice . |
| 9 | However , the excesses of ‘ pop socio-biology ’ should not , as Carrithers points out ( in this volume ) , lead us to a wholesale rejection of the evidence for certain genetically transmitted predispositions in the human animal . |
| 10 | These several glosses of the characterization of a causal circumstance as making its effect happen and explaining it , glosses which are surely very natural , lead us to a firm conclusion , one that may be anticipated . |
| 11 | These reflections lead us to an alternative view of pressure group power in Britain : that the strongest weapons are forms of direct action and not the manipulation of electoral choice . |
| 12 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |
| 13 | If our ideological preconceptions incline us to an exclusive interest in standard English , we will produce what is in effect a history of literary English ; this will exclude and neglect other historical patterns that are capable of enriching our description of the history of spoken English and , ultimately , of adding to our understanding of the general phenomenon of linguistic change . |