Example sentences of "[vb infin] us [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you assist us on the approach which you have adopted in terms not only of greenbelt function , but of the need for a strategic reserve ? |
| 2 | She has written a very full report which will assist us with a review of advanced courses policy in the light of the development of general Scottish Vocational Qualifications ( of which more later ) . |
| 3 | This young man has come from Dublin to answer all our questions , and I had a letter from Mick Collins himself telling me that this young man would assist us in every way possible … " |
| 4 | We have shown how group frequencies derived from experience with other molecules may be used to suggest assignments for particularly characteristic bands , and how the use of isotopes may assist us in the deduction of molecular structure and of the types of atoms involved in each mode . |
| 5 | If she will never be able to hide under the beauty of her image clusters , at least she will never bore us with the undergrowth of psychology and metaphor , where art is an excuse for waffle . |
| 6 | Again it is unnecessary for him to explain his reluctance to respond in the circumstances to the hope of this reviewer that he would again delight us with an introduction of the wide sweep of brilliance with which he embellished Volume II . |
| 7 | This will alert us to the error in assuming that the sole way of justifying spending money on courses in the Arts must lie in claims about their utility for ends beyond themselves . |
| 8 | Elisabeth Cook 's recent account of the ‘ Querelle des Bouffons ’ shows an extensive political dimension , which should alert us to the nature of associated rhetoric . |
| 9 | ( The very fact that the proposed ‘ Star Wars ’ defensive strategy of the United States involves computerised laser technology should alert us to the fact that such a defence has ominous offensive possibilities . ) |
| 10 | We have been more wary of challenging the transcultural verity of sexual categories , but in reality a minimum awareness of the evidence should alert us to the fact that though various cultures share general sexual forms , this does not mean that their content , inner structures and meanings are identical . |
| 11 | From a pedagogic point of view , the possibility of culture specificity should alert us to the fact that when we teach terms referring to discourse type and use them in discourse processing and production , we should not take for granted that each term has an exact translation equivalent . |
| 12 | This should alert us to the fact that the canons are incomplete records , and that they could even overlook matters of royal concern , like Guntram 's foundation of the monastery of St Marcel . |
| 13 | ‘ They wo n't know us at the station , in London , ’ said Jonathon suddenly . |
| 14 | ‘ Excuse me , , I said to an elderly gentleman coming towards us , ‘ can you direct us to the Gypsy Queen 's caravan ? ’ |
| 15 | Can you direct us to the table please ? |
| 16 | In addition to the obvious environmental benefits , this will also qualify us for a cash award from Save-a-Cup which will be donated to charity . ’ |
| 17 | We must examine it to see what sense it can yield us in the case of those who , as it happens , are not men in the first place , and in what way , once this is done , it will have changed its meaning for those who , by no special fault or merit of their own , actually are so . |
| 18 | And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats . |
| 19 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 20 | It is not far away ; an hour 's journey through the Forest would bring us to the shore from which it can be seen . |
| 21 | We tramp across the wet grass and bracken and plunge through the soaking undergrowth with Andy confidently predicting , with all the security of a man who knows his feet are dry and will remain so , that this bushwhacking through chest-deep and sodden vegetation will soon bring us to the crag . |
| 22 | However this would lock us into a service led system , with very little room for the expression of user choice or the tailoring of services to the individual . |
| 23 | It 'll certainly do us at the moment in the winter wo n't it ? |
| 24 | All these factors — and many , many more which are now a fact of our fast-paced , deadline-packed daily lives — are still helping to create symptoms of stress to the point where a single encounter with an apparently dyslexic British Telecom directory enquiries operator can all but tip us over the brink . |
| 25 | Now cousin , oh er ah , I 'm sorry , erm , President , because you know you get all sorts of distortions on this do n't you can I say , President , er , cos call him brother at times colleagues , on behalf of congress , can I thank you President , very very much for the very positive and very strong challenges that you 've put before us , and the theme that I believe will carry us through the rest of the week . |
| 26 | I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Esher ( Mr. Taylor ) that other countries are offering to help us to use their sovereignty in a way that will benefit us in the future . |
| 27 | And I like to take quite a chunk of consolation from the fact they did nt beat us to the title … yet we beat them . |
| 28 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 29 | frantic , man In case they 're gon na Nuke us Tae the back of |
| 30 | So , if any of you would like to come and see us at the salon we will both be there and very happy to see and answer any of your questions . |