Example sentences of "[vb -s] us [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It allows us to record the principal ideas , key concepts , competing explanatory theories and illustrations used . |
| 2 | It is with interval and ratio scales that we reach a level of measurement which allows us to use the standard arithmetic operations . |
| 3 | It allows us to segment the external world of experience in all manner of arbitrary ways and to create artificial internal worlds to suit our convenience . |
| 4 | This very innocence , however , allows us to see the powerful sexual element in the bourgeois world very clearly in its costume , an extraordinary combination of temptation and prohibition . |
| 5 | This model allows us to calculate the average trends in the binding energies of nuclei , but it predicts incorrectly that all nuclei should have a spherical shape , which varies as the cube root of the atomic weight , just as the radius of a liquid drop varies as the cube root of its mass . |
| 6 | Elizabeth 's father tried to stifle adult love in his children , so that the great courtship had to be conducted mainly by letter — luckily for us , as the correspondence between these two great writers allows us to follow the growing involvement of two passionate and generous people and enjoy the meeting of two lively and imaginative minds . |
| 7 | Acknowledging this interdependence allows us to make the courageous leap of ‘ letting in ’ the fetus , of rejecting the idea that it is simply a clump of cells , of taking it into our moral accounting and allowing it to make some claim on our attentions . |
| 8 | Music stimulates us to realize the Dionysiac metaphysical world in Apolline symbolism , which then , under the influence of music , acquires its highest significance . |
| 9 | Considering inequalities once again leads us to consider the political machinery which is expected to deal with them — a machinery which itself contains and reinforces inequalities . |
| 10 | Marcia Pointon 's fascinating essay on the contemporary portrait leads us to question the central relationship between artist , sitter and spectator . |
| 11 | The answer to this requires us to assess the relative centrality of sexual choice to life choices and living standards . |
| 12 | Now and again the Lady Francesca asks us to take the good nuns gifts of embroidery . ’ |
| 13 | Such evidence only helps us to see the long-term trend over two or three centuries . |
| 14 | At its best it satisfies the sense of hubris in all of us and helps us to forget the inevitable contrast between real and ideal , in human love as in every other human impulse . |
| 15 | If Booth 's ( 1961 ) narratology helps to clarify the function of this rhetoric as an unconscious condition in which the reader 's judgements are controlled , it also helps us to understand the moral personality of the intrusive commentating voice : the tone of commentary at those moments in the argument when de Man speaks most unequivocally in his own voice . |
| 16 | Cairns-Smith invites us to perform the following experiment . |
| 17 | Shifting the dramatic frame enables us to use the dramatic fictions that are shown on children 's television as starting points for drama . |
| 18 | The long corporate ownership by the abbey enables us to see the early arrangement ; the charter details survive and the ‘ focal place ’ of each period can be defined . |
| 19 | It is God as Father who enables us to see the true essence of God . |
| 20 | The APT takes this principle a stage further and enables us to define the expected risk premium of the security as a function of the risk premium of any index . |
| 21 | It is especially this formation which enables us to define the difficult concept of a fraction . |
| 22 | However , I have stressed the importance of the other side of our self-interested rationality — the side that also enables us to appreciate the personal advantages to be gained from compliance with the restraints of the social contract . |
| 23 | More specifically , an analysis of Scottish kingship , and of the particular reasons for its strength , enables us to discard the lingering idea that Mary 's failure was predetermined by the fact that she was a woman — and worse and more pathetic , a young woman . |
| 24 | This , it will be remembered , enables us to perceive the deferred , but ultimate greater , advantages of self-denial : we will accept the immediate constraints of convention if they are seen as serving some general advantage . |
| 25 | Given a particular failure , the method enables us to identify the various combinations and sequences of other failures that could lead to that failure . |
| 26 | I said that the " genetic ruler " of Figure 8 enables us to calculate the minimum time it would take to evolve from one point to another . |
| 27 | It is the behaviour of the indicators which enables us to unravel the conceptual and definitional ambiguities . |