Example sentences of "tells us the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golf Illustrated 's lengthy accounts states ‘ difficulty after difficulty had to be surmounted , not with ease ’ and tells us the course had previously been partly arable , partly waste and that one professional condemned the prospects of the course unless £10,000 were spent on it . ’ |
| 2 | Sir , — That heroic huntin' person ‘ name and address supplied ’ tells us the tearing to pieces of foxes by packs of half starved dogs accompanied by hordes of fancy dress killers on horseback is legal , efficient and beneficial to the fox ! |
| 3 | This link is represented graphically by the unemployment-income curve which tells us the unemployment percentage that will be associated with any rate of national income , given real labour costs . |
| 4 | His widow tells us the things we expect to hear ; that he was good , kind , gentle . |
| 5 | Since the hypocrite ( it is usually a he : there are few women hypocrites in Elizabethan drama , which may be a comfort to the feminists ) tells us the truth , we are able to judge the extent of his lies , his success in duping others . |
| 6 | But this only tells us the earliest date at which the book could have been written , not the latest date , which is of more interest . |
| 7 | and tells us the car |
| 8 | Consequently , much of the information reported in Section 2 simply tells us the hours timetabled for courses concerned with language teaching . |
| 9 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 10 | This Greek myth tells us the story of Narcissus who thought he was the most beautiful young man in all of Ancient Greece . |
| 11 | That account tells us the amount of net payments over receipts compared with the budgeted figures . |
| 12 | More recent theories suggest the crossing place further down river at Rochester or Chatham , but Dunkin tells us the Roman Army ( the seventh and tenth legions ) then turned along through what is now Snodland and Halling burning and wasting the country as they advanced through the villages . |
| 13 | We can define the unknown in broad terms — " What would increase our margins here ? " — and this is really defining a search area In essence a question tells us the answer with which we would be satisfied : if our thinking can get us to this point we can stop that line of thinking . |
| 14 | Eventually , Lorraine tells us the way to Siobhan 's new house . |
| 15 | The demand curve DD tells us the marginal value product of labour , the extra benefit society could have from extra goods produced . |
| 16 | The supply curve SS tells us the marginal value of the leisure being sacrificed in order to work another hour , the marginal social cost of extra work . |
| 17 | ‘ There are books , a book , that tells us the way it should have been . |
| 18 | our estimate for price elasticity is four and one to nought point eight minus one is one point eight , notice though that its ratio has jumped considerably or has doubled and the dummy variable itself is very significant the T ratio ten the coefficient on that dummy variable tells us the effect of the war on textile consumption , right so on average textile consumption rose by point two er see what the units of measurement are we do n't actually have units of er ah so we 'll |
| 19 | The company that owns the transmitters , NTL , tells us the work will be finished by October 10 |