Example sentences of "tell we the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 2 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 3 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 4 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 5 | That you have a map of an island ; that there 's crosses on the map to show where treasure is ; and that the island is — ’ Then he told us the exact place . |
| 6 | Because the market for meals is in competitive equilibrium we saw that the marginal cost curve for films also told us the marginal value of the meals being sacrificed to make the last film . |
| 7 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
| 9 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 10 | To enable the House and the country to clear the matter up , will the Secretary of State tell us the correct figure ? |
| 11 | Further , on one occasion the Pactus Legis Salicae deals with those rachinburgi , or local law-men , who were unable to state the law in response to the demand , " Tell us the Salic Law " : Dicite nobis legem Salicam . |
| 12 | Will he give an assurance that he will consider the matter , and also tell us the latest developments on the building of the second phase of the hospital ? |
| 13 | They tell us the exact positions and brightness but nothing of their distances . |
| 14 | how to distinguish a statistically significant coefficient , right , rule of thumb is that the T ratio has to be greater than two with absolute value right and the figures in square brackets next to the T ratios tell us the exact level of significance , right , er of that coefficient , right , so the incoming elasticity of demand is statistically significant from zero only at the eighty five percent level , a correspondence of fifteen percent significance that incoming the price elasticity demand , highly significant , right , significance level as given by the probabil by the probability er unit in square brackets , the timing level therefore we could be very highly confident about that coefficient okay . |
| 15 | ‘ Tell us the bad news first Sir , ’ they all chorused . |
| 16 | Just tell us the long-running TV series in which Backdraft director Ron Howard starred as Richie Cunningham . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The demand curve DD tells us the marginal value product of labour , the extra benefit society could have from extra goods produced . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They can also tell us the correct name of a city . |
| 22 | We 're six lads going on holiday in the summer to Tenerife- Can you tell us the best places to go beachwise and clubwise ? |
| 23 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 24 | Perhaps this afternoon he will tell us the Labour party 's attitude to this imaginative development . |
| 25 | ‘ If they would n't tell us the first time , why should they do so now ? ’ |
| 26 | Every day at rehearsals , James would tell us the distinguished content of the previous night 's audience . |
| 27 | ‘ Barratt was just telling us the other night at the Goodys ' , ’ says Prue , as she pours coffee in the living-room , ‘ about how he had lunch with God the other day . ’ |
| 28 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 29 | For an autobiography which purports to tell us the real story behind the sacking of George Davies from the Next empire which he founded , What Next is on the naive side . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't wait to see shear waters again , ’ I said brightly to the Warden when he came to check that we understood about Calor gas , to remind us to boil the drinking water and to tell us the exact procedure of what to do if we fell down a cliff . |