Example sentences of "[vb infin] us to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the de-Marxisation of their project by him and the ‘ death of the social ’ which he has announced should alert us to the doubts raised by Raymond Williams on the issue of certain types of Utopianism . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 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 . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Excuse me , , I said to an elderly gentleman coming towards us , ‘ can you direct us to the Gypsy Queen 's caravan ? ’ |
| 9 | Can you direct us to the table please ? |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | This zest should be carried into the transcendent and should bring us to the horizons of mental thought . |
| 12 | It is not far away ; an hour 's journey through the Forest would bring us to the shore from which it can be seen . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'm sure your sister can see us to the gate . |
| 17 | Have to say the planets and do n't forget we 've got to think about other solar systems as well so we 're not let's not limit us to the number , the planets why not . |
| 18 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 19 | Why did n't you invite us to the wedding , you bad man ? ’ |
| 20 | But there is reason to think that our senses do not take us to the heart of things . |
| 21 | ‘ That will take us to the cities where we can buy more . |
| 22 | ‘ You can take us to the graves , Sir James ? ’ |
| 23 | Not only does he take us to the site but he drives straight through the crowd , lights blazing , to the backstage area . |
| 24 | I tell you another year of feasibility studies will take us to the point of no return . |
| 25 | I have a boat ready and it will take us to the Delta . |
| 26 | ‘ After the coronation they 'll take us to the palace for the night . |
| 27 | For Peirce , statistical sampling is the fundamental kind of ampliative inference , and for this he derives its ‘ validity ’ from his understanding of reality — its repeated use will take us to the truth in the long run . |
| 28 | Peirce could probably allow the same : his position rests upon the belief that there is a logical guarantee that induction will take us to the truth in the long run , but that our confidence in the short-run efficacy of the method is simply an ‘ acritical ’ commonsense certainty which may be susceptible to scientific explanation . |
| 29 | The driver would take us to the police . |
| 30 | I was just supposed to keep an eye on you and let you lead us to the enemy . |