Example sentences of "[vb infin] us [indef pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size of the compulsory core of a discipline might tell us something about the strength of its identity , and the extent to which it constitutes an organic whole or , to use a common expression , ‘ seamless web ’ . |
| 2 | An auditing system would tell us something about the investigations looked at and , by way of extrapolation , also about the general reliability of the system . |
| 3 | Can you tell us something about the quality of water locally ? |
| 4 | This instrument could conceivably tell us something about the reflectance and fluorescence from the plant . |
| 5 | Can the Secretary of State tell us something about the effect of the council tax on the agricultural community ? |
| 6 | For example , a representation of a law court could tell us something about the role of judges , lawyers , jury , witnesses : representations of the silent system within prisons may convey something of the nature of that practice . |
| 7 | Can you tell us something about the role of the LDP UK company before we became involved ? |
| 8 | Although the evidence of seditious words can tell us something about the range of motives which led people to Jacobitism , it can tell us little about how prevalent such sympathies were . |
| 9 | Asa , you 've got very close to saying something which I 've often pressed historians on , but they 've never got quite as close as you have , and that 's actually saying that history is useful insofar as it might tell us something about the future . |
| 10 | I think that history is interesting insofar as it will tell us something about the future . |
| 11 | Well , now , can you tell us something about the nature of noise ? |
| 12 | We may have heard from you , but erm please do tell us something about the Oxford Rainforest festival . |
| 13 | But if spatial relations within a phenomenological space can tell us nothing about the numerical diversity of ontological objects , there is even less that can be gleaned in this respect from temporal relations within a phenomenological time . |
| 14 | The detective inspector went on , in tones totally devoid of emphasis , ‘ Unfortunately Dr Iverson went out after the dinner-party to pay a late visit to a man with pneumonia about whom he was worried an so can not tell us anything about the time immediately after the guests had left . |
| 15 | But these conventions do not tell us anything about the student 's facility with abstraction nor about his or her logical performance . |
| 16 | If they do not express the concept of multiple points of view in a way familiar to those schooled in western ways , we might be justified in exposing the limitations of their expressions and of the thought system within which they operate , but this would not tell us anything about the individuals or groups themselves as thinkers . |
| 17 | This does not directly tell us anything about the ‘ weakness ’ or ‘ strength ’ of UK manufacturing , but it is interesting to note the sectoral distribution : UK multinationals in the food , drink and tobacco industry export more capital through this route than comes in ; in mechanical engineering the inflow greatly surpasses the outflow , while in electrical engineering UK multinationals export more capital than foreign firms bring in . |
| 18 | ’ Can you tell us anything about the crime itself ? ’ |
| 19 | Can you tell us anything about the enquiries that are going on ? |