Example sentences of "[vb -s] we a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vast restaurant area allows us a complicated exit choice of at least fifty yards of glass door frontage . |
| 2 | The model for Catherine Freemantle , however , shows us a different picture . |
| 3 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 4 | and it costs us a bloody bomb ! |
| 5 | This stress on the interdependence of social phenomena , though it may be circular and is not exhaustive , takes us a long way in understanding the basic dynamics of community life . |
| 6 | Much of the work evaluated in this chapter takes us a long way towards identifying mechanisms for triggering the need for investment , screening the proposals and defining them . |
| 7 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 8 | Among humans , even when we do not understand the words , the manner of expression still tells us a great deal of what is being communicated , especially at a basic level of feeling , emotion and facts of physical life . |
| 9 | This search for soft touches tells us a great deal about ourselves . |
| 10 | A full discussion of that issue is beyond the scope of this book , but I would agree with those commentators who argue that its persistence tells us a great deal more about the present than the past . |
| 11 | It tells us a good deal about the relative values of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that where the Victorians modelled their stations on cathedrals and palaces , Modern Man models his on shopping centres and office blocks . |
| 12 | The difference between the comfort of the villa owner 's quarters and the room sin which his slaves worked and lived , tells us a good deal about the low standards slaves had to accept for themselves . |
| 13 | RICHARD ROLLE 'S conversion to the solitary life tells us a good deal about his spirituality . |
| 14 | As Morgan ( 1985 , pp. 169–70 ) points out in his review of studies in family history , history never just tells us a single story — there are many possible stories , depending upon what questions we ask . |
| 15 | Metaphor denies us a literal sense , and so induces us to make sense , ie to find interpretations beyond the truth-functional meaning captured by paraphrase . |
| 16 | Sinclair Hood ( 1982 ) nevertheless gives us a salutary reminder that the Minoans lived in a world where might was right , where Egyptian rulers boasted of their subjugation of foreigners , of the cities and territories they had sacked and laid waste , and where Hittite kings boasted of holding their lands ‘ with a strong arm ’ , and of capturing the idols of their enemies . |
| 17 | ‘ The limited status limits our liability , ’ says Mr Quarmby , ‘ and gives us a legal framework . ’ |
| 18 | And the faintly ghoulish Earthquake ride gives us a juddering inkling , as if from the inside of the special effects of that now forgotten movie . |
| 19 | We are able to forgive because we know what it is to be forgiven , and the love of God shed abroad in our heart gives us a new capacity to do so . |
| 20 | This text gives us a new basis for co-operation with our partners in bringing these criminals to justice . |
| 21 | Defoe gives us a splendid picture of an industrial landscape in the time of Queen Anne or shortly after . |
| 22 | The original wall survives at the base to a greater degree than we had realised and gives us a substantial footing . |
| 23 | He also gives us a measured degree of self doubt mixed with evasiveness and a realistic progression from a young , ambitious eager beaver on the music hall circuit to a very old man languishing with his memories in Switzerland . |
| 24 | This gives us a powerful sense of tradition , in the best sense of the word . |
| 25 | Despite my criticisms of the way the policy was carried out — there was not enough consultation - it gives us a real basis to work on . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ The fact that we are guaranteed a play-off place gives us a solid base to go to Molineux . |
| 27 | So that gives us a total expenditure of seven eighty seven sixty two for the year and that leaves us with a balance er of the year and that 's nine ninety eight ninety nine pence . |
| 28 | But the fact that you were a close and dear friend to my parents gives us a close bond , nevertheless . |
| 29 | The feast gives us a graphic picture of the character of God , showing how he loves to redeem those who have been lost , to restore the lives which have been wasted . |
| 30 | If we feel that someone has a high opinion of us we tend to want to live up to it , but few of us bother to make much effort with anyone we know who gives us a low rating , and this is very much the case between mothers-in-law and sons-in-law . |