Example sentences of "[vb -s] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 2 | Elstir 's paintings persuade Marcel of their truth , but it 's a truth which is different from the intellectual truth which he first brought to his initial contemplation of those paintings , and Marcel says that in this way , by his art , Elstir frees us from the cramping tyranny of the intellect , by painting , and again I quote , ‘ by painting some unusual picture of a familiar object . |
| 3 | Separation releases the brakes of the inhibition and frees us in the two worlds . |
| 4 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 5 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 6 | This leads us into the next stage of whole-healing , namely diet . |
| 7 | This , and the quoted safe level for serum bismuth ( 10–50 µg/l ) reassures us of the low toxic potential for this enema . |
| 8 | His plight affects us like the unwilling martyrdom of a saint who wants to be like other men . |
| 9 | It immediately protects us from the impossible situation one meets in the literature with remarks such as : " The Aalenian of Mr X , which is the Bajocian of Mr Y , should in fact be regarded as part of the Toarcian " . |
| 10 | Des hurries us off the main road down the alleys , past some interesting graffiti to where his yellow Capri has collapsed beneath a lamp-post . |
| 11 | Here our itinerary takes us along the new section of the road , rather surprisingly signposted to Fort William , and brings us to the first railway so far seen , at Strathcarron Station . |
| 12 | Cooking to Please takes us into the 1990s . ’ |
| 13 | This takes us into the nebulous area of psychological assessment , but it is also the case that the supply of information must be of the right type and in the right form to enable human beings to respond and act correctly , especially the air traffic controllers and the flight crew . |
| 14 | Again after the middle ten lines there is another break which takes us into the last section of the poem with the words ‘ at last ’ . |
| 15 | To use the landscape itself as the stage or background for artistic expression takes us to the very boundaries of art until , as we step across , we realize that the whole of life is , or could be , Art . |
| 16 | The acquisition of a skill is a tortuous process that takes us through the following sequence : |
| 17 | Misha Glenny takes us through the historical background to the war , before giving us a more detailed account of the political manoeuvring and stirring from August 1990 to May 1992 . |
| 18 | Now this slide really takes the behind , takes us behind the first figure on the on the consolidated F R S One cash flow table and it really traces hard despite the reduction in profits , the very strong performance in working capital that Frank eluded to earlier means that er we actually end up with a net cash flow for operating activities more than thirty five million pounds higher . |
| 19 | It takes us from the 19th century through to the 1930s and 1940s and the pioneering work of a number of embroiderers , in particular Constance Howard , who in 1951 was invited to make a large-scale work for the Festival of Britain . |
| 20 | Even if we drop a shot because Jacklin makes four , it still keeps us in the Open . |
| 21 | Caroline , in her Souvenirs intimes , remarks that ‘ Fëlicitë and her parrot really lived ’ and directs us towards the first Trouville parrot , that of Captain Barbey , as the true ancestor of Loulou . |
| 22 | MURDER , love affairs , violence , robberies , mounting debts … our soap operas are packed full of every gloomy scenario that surrounds us in the real world . |
| 23 | No one , in this cast of hundreds , has just a walk-on part : a role in just one Goldwyn film entitles us to the full biography of Frances Farmer , from winning a teenage essay competition to her eventual confinement in an asylum . |
| 24 | She tells us about the two deaths of co-skipper Alexei Grishenko and Janne Gustavsson both friends for whom she grieved . |
| 25 | With an agreeable mixture of personal and scientific detail , Robertson tells us about the early Australian work on radio emission from the Sun , the planets and the mysterious radio ‘ stars ’ ( point sources ) and explains how the 21-cm line from interstellar hydrogen was used to map the spiral arms of our Galaxy ; he also describes the development of the solar radio spectrograph by Paul Wild and of the high resolution ‘ cross ’ antennae by Bernard Mills and Wilbur Christiansen . |
| 26 | Science tells us about the structural and relational properties of objects , while consciousness tells us what they are qualitatively like . |
| 27 | Over and above all this , John tells us of the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit with the spirit of the believer , assuring him that God 's testimony to his Son is reliable , assuring him that the Christian experience is real . |
| 28 | So the mysteries of migration routes , which prompted this brief foray into the biological and geological past , is only one of a myriad miraculous facets of nature , of the greater Mind , that tells us of the great planetary drama in which life has existed , maintained within such finely balanced parameters , for hundreds of millions , if not billions of years . |
| 29 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 30 | Ayer tells us in the next paragraph : |