Example sentences of "[vb -s] we [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ History shows us that the inherent strength of American communities and institutions can be attributed in large part to the freedom Americans had to experiment without the deadening hand of capital control . |
| 2 | Evacuation thus shows us that the ideological consensus of wartime , so stressed by Titmuss and some historians , was something of a myth . |
| 3 | This assures us that the continued supply is of normal quantities required anyway , but it also makes discontinuation of supply a positive harm rather than a refusal to help . |
| 4 | On television , the lugubrious Jim advises us that the Canadian lager he is paid to promote is horrible stuff , and should be avoided . |
| 5 | Financial editor Douglas Moffat tells us whether the Prime Minister 's fears are justified . |
| 6 | It also tells us whether the unknown letter is a single segment letter , or made up from a combination of two segments . |
| 7 | While we draw breath on the wolf whistling debate as heard on the BBC World Service , apparently Coun Eleanor Young tells us that the offending action is n't even mentioned in Darlington Council 's proposed code of conduct for contractors . |
| 8 | Now seafloor spreading tells us that the oceanic crust of the Pacific is moving away from the East Pacific Rise towards South America . |
| 9 | It merely tells us that the young people were neighbours sharing " a common stair " . |
| 10 | He is still talking in terms of a new career , rather than retiring , and this is not surprising in view of the work ethic , which tells us that the only ‘ proper ’ way for a man to spend his time is in productive employment and makes it very difficult for men to take up interests purely for the enjoyment . |
| 11 | Oriental dragons were not bloodthirsty like the Worms in England , and a pretty story tells us that the beautiful colours of autumn leaves are a result of a nearby dragon yawning and tinging them with his warm breath , before settling down to his winter hibernation . |
| 12 | In the tent that night we eat smoked trout and Odd-Knut tells us that the previous year there was a fight on his team and after it was over and the dogs were moving again he saw blood on the snow . |
| 13 | Second he tells us that the classical paradises , which you can read about it in ancient authors , none of them are as fine as the Garden of Eden . |
| 14 | First , it tells us that the basic currency of the industry is not bits and bytes and the complex trappings of electronic technology . |
| 15 | He tells us that the Foreign Secretary occupied a first-floor room overlooking the park , as did his private secretary and the Précis Writer . |
| 16 | Martin informs us that the main sellers in this category are Squier 's ‘ Silver Series ’ J and P basses , built in Japan and popular for obvious reasons . |
| 17 | However , Pelkmans , 1984 , reminds us that the technical efficiency gains are by no means automatic as a result of greater competition in integrated markets . |
| 18 | Such stresses are therefore called Piola-Kirchhoff stresses and , denoting such a stress by the symbols ( the upper case K reminds us that the normal is referred to the undeformed state , while the lower case j refers to the deformed state ) we have the relation where J is the Jacobian , defined earlier ( p. 15 ) , J = det . |
| 19 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |
| 20 | But more immediately it reminds us that the imperial invaders played the role of the Persians ; that Barbarossa 's efforts systematically to reduce the cities of the north — and less systematically , those of Tuscany and Umbria — led to the formation of the First Lombard League ; and that the long struggle with the Hohenstaufen was one of the preludes to the formation of the civic empires which dominated late medieval Italy . |
| 21 | It reminds us that the National Curriculum is not the whole educational experience of a child . |
| 22 | Although the New Criticism in its later American manifestations generally pursued a purely formal and elucidatory analysis , Gerald Graff reminds us that the original New Critics were evaluative , since they wrote as conservative Southerners who were much concerned with ideals of cultural health . |
| 23 | It is salutary to begin our exploration of English mysticism with Rolle , because he reminds us that the mystical experiment could lead the unwary into all kinds of spiritual and physical dangers or to a sterile solipsism . |
| 24 | Some of the excellent contemporary work included reminds us that the historical Orientalism on display is the basis of our current society 's attitude to the east . |
| 25 | This reminds us that the pre-reading activities advocated by Langer , to which we referred above , will be especially useful for less fluent readers . |