Example sentences of "tells [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a plea for leniency after a finding of guilty , defending counsel tells the court : ‘ My Lord , my client is very much a Walter Mitty character . |
| 2 | Verstehen has a first , primary sense of ‘ empathy ’ or ‘ direct understanding ’ , which tells the inquirer what action is being performed . |
| 3 | All we got is a piece of paper , which probably on that one tells the council they recommend approval of this . |
| 4 | ‘ Take me to la piazza Rosa , ’ he tells the taxi driver . |
| 5 | The signalman in his isolated box tells the narrator of an apparition he has now seen three times . |
| 6 | The waggle dance is a figure of ‘ 8 ’ , and tells the direction as well as the distance to the food . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course not ! ’ he tells the army officer , and that 's the end of it . |
| 8 | ‘ I used to live in London , ’ Howard tells the driver , smiling . |
| 9 | If Ayer then tells the theist that he or she is still unable to make meaningful theological statements , then it can not surely be on the basis of the verification principle , the principle by which he claims to distinguish meaningful from meaningless statements . |
| 10 | This is the specific sexual signal from the adult female that tells the male that she is ready to mate . |
| 11 | So , in a near-threshold task the subject may be accurately identifying the presence of a stimulus which tells the experimenter that there is some kind of mental representation of the stimulus , but there is no way the experimenter can decide whether or not the subject is consciously aware of the stimulus . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's something in the air in this place ! ’ he tells the porter . |
| 13 | Meanwhile John tells the child that he is going to play a trick on Mary and transfers the coin into the blue box . |
| 14 | For example , the QUESTOR command : PRINT FROM EMP INCLUDE NAME , BIRTHDATE ! tells the system to print a list of employees ' names and birthdates . |
| 15 | The customer tells the company what it has done . |
| 16 | The customer tells the company what it has done . |
| 17 | He drives the launch and tells the crew and of course , the cox , the fastest way to the finish . |
| 18 | It can be extremely helpful if the therapist tells the patient that he is concerned about him , although caution must be exercised not to step outside a professional relationship nor to encourage over-dependency . |
| 19 | However , a massive compression can be achieved by creating a relatively short code of just a few bytes which effectively tells the computer that ‘ the next 400,000 bytes will be blue ’ . |
| 20 | The human tells the computer which one of the current litter of progeny to breed from . |
| 21 | There is an index which tells the computer where to look for each of the files and a serial search for the file is not necessary . |
| 22 | The word TO tells the machine it is about to get an instruction . |
| 23 | In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved . |
| 24 | Usually when the welcomed cup of tea arrives , my husband , with whom I work , hardly ever tells the customer who I am . |
| 25 | Nowadays , under ‘ Design & Build ’ , it is the man with practical experience and knowledge who guarantees that the project will meet the D/BO 's needs for the previously agreed cost — and it is the builder who tells the architect what to show on the drawings [ as he pays the fees ] . |
| 26 | Figure 6.7 The dance of the honeybee tells the location of food sources in relation to the hive . |
| 27 | The interview with Jason , he tells the jury , had been ‘ twisted , distorted , added to and invented ; and it attributed cowardice at the very moment the Gulf War was about to break out ’ . |
| 28 | George tells the jury he will not insult their intelligence by developing a point any further , then develops it . |
| 29 | ‘ It is likely that as you hear the story you will experience strong emotions , ’ he tells the jury . |
| 30 | The People 's Daily tells the Chinese what they are supposed to believe ; Mr Yang tells foreigners what he would like them to believe . |