Example sentences of "[to-vb] us [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 2 | We welcome and encourage people who want to have a look at us — not only to understand ‘ what we 're about , ’ but , perhaps , to check us out as prospective employers . |
| 3 | To think of the super Thou and link it with emotional thoughts such as compassion is to bind us together with invisible but powerful bands . |
| 4 | Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century . |
| 5 | Either it is an instance of a proof by reductio ad absurdum , in which we assume something true in order to prove it false ; or it is a way of exposing a paradox within the concept of knowledge , for the sceptic can surely insist that if a central concept such as that of knowledge can be used to take us validly from true premises to a false or impossible conclusion , something is wrong with the concept ; there is probably some internal tension which should be exposed rather than swept under the carpet . |
| 6 | By effectively refusing to consider a particular type of ball for Category A tournaments , the Association would appear , in Mr MacCaughey 's words of response , ‘ … to treat us equally with other companies , when it comes to paying over the proposal fee and the contribution of free of charge tennis balls ( another condition of the Agreement ) , but are unwilling to do so when it comes to exposure at major events . ’ |
| 7 | Although it will be close to midnight before the game ends , the trains of Boston 's admirable underground , the T , will be waiting to carry us away in orderly and good natured hordes . |
| 8 | What this study wo n't do is to tell us much about specific industries such as our own because the numbers involved will almost certainly be too small to pinpoint effects so precisely . |