Example sentences of "[vb infin] us to the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Excuse me , , I said to an elderly gentleman coming towards us , ‘ can you direct us to the Gypsy Queen 's caravan ? ’ |
| 8 | Can you direct us to the table please ? |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | It is not far away ; an hour 's journey through the Forest would bring us to the shore from which it can be seen . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 'm sure your sister can see us to the gate . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Why did n't you invite us to the wedding , you bad man ? ’ |
| 16 | But there is reason to think that our senses do not take us to the heart of things . |
| 17 | Not only does he take us to the site but he drives straight through the crowd , lights blazing , to the backstage area . |
| 18 | I tell you another year of feasibility studies will take us to the point of no return . |
| 19 | I have a boat ready and it will take us to the Delta . |
| 20 | ‘ After the coronation they 'll take us to the palace for the night . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I was just supposed to keep an eye on you and let you lead us to the enemy . |
| 24 | But intellect does not lead us to the Lord . |
| 25 | Can some account be given of how it does so which does not commit us to the theory that there are two distinct elements in visual perception , something two-dimensional , picture-like , on the one hand , and a judgement , on the other ? |
| 26 | However , while it is doubtless true that men pay an emotional price for the power they have , this should not blind us to the power and privileges from which they do benefit . |
| 27 | Whether or not early retirement and high unemployment continue , however , they should not blind us to the need to consider other factors which influence our capacity to care for dependent populations . |
| 28 | The marketing of the man should not blind us to the fact that he is a great artist , unafraid of engaging mass culture . |
| 29 | In particular , the image of Germany epitomised by her most famous export , the Mercedes , as a country which is well built , reliable , and which performs well , should not blind us to the fact that the history of the Federal Republic has been a history of scandals , which have reached to the very highest echelons of power . |
| 30 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |