Example sentences of "have [verb] us to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 2 | Perhaps racism has conditioned us to a greater extent than we expected . |
| 3 | Steady progress over the last four decades has brought us to a point where much of what happens in primary education is a source of pride . |
| 4 | Russian , ultimately , has brought us to a similar endeavour . |
| 5 | First of all erm he justified his view on environmental considerations as as considered by the City Council , I think we would say , the County Council , that one of the main considerations that has brought us to the conclusion that we have are environmental considerations , the environment of York and its immeding immediate surroundings , the protection er of the York greenbelt , environmental considerations have been er at the most er in our minds . |
| 6 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 7 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 8 | Our discussion of the evolution of the logogen model has led us to the following view of the organisation of the mental lexicon . |
| 9 | Thus , a consideration of earlier work on DMVs has led us to the conclusion that the settlement patterns we actually see on the maps and in the landscape consist of a range of settlements , at various stages of development at all periods ; everything , in fact , from surviving medieval villages to totally abandoned farm sites . |
| 10 | Having introduced us to the widely ranging Cichlasoma family , and given ideas of how to keep them , our three cichlid experts , JEFF CHALLANDS , MARTIN CHANDLER AND PHIL ROBINSON move on to the nitty-gritty of tanks and equipment . |
| 11 | Every road junction has a multitude of signposts in a variety of languages , but we did n't see on that would have directed us to the Roman site . |
| 12 | The path forked when it reached an old log cabin ; left would have taken us to the top of Mount Eddy , right took us on the Pacific Crest Trail stretching from Canada down to Mexico . |
| 13 | Graham Taylor , having taken us to the brink of a shock World Cup exit after miserable displays against Poland and Norway , contemplates on the latest national disaster . |
| 14 | Our discussions of last week seem to have lead us to the Railway Tavern at 12–12:30 . |
| 15 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 16 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 17 | One old man hauled into a police van declared : ‘ They 've invited us to the birthday celebrations , do n't you see ! ’ |
| 18 | In recent months several TH contributors have treated us to a wealth of extremely useful information , advice and tips on how to achieve success with a detector when searching the country 's transport routes . |
| 19 | Mickey 's invited us to a party at his house , and no one turns down an invite to Mickey 's ! |
| 20 | The dots have brought us to the bottom of a page — an appropriate point , since we have also , surely , reached the nadir of these proceedings , perhaps of all proceedings in the whole history of the modern Civil Service . |
| 21 | ‘ Besides , we ca n't kill her until she 's led us to the book or at least told us where we can find it . ’ |
| 22 | With all these formal and informal constraints , we can see that pure freedom for the individual actor is very unlikely ; considering all these expectations and controls that surround us , Berger 's portrayal of society as a prison begins to seem plausible : ‘ Our considerations of the sociological perspective have led us to a point where society looks more like a gigantic Alcatraz than anything else ’ ( Berger , 1966 , p. 107 ) . |
| 23 | That our perceptual apparatus is reliable and our abductive sense is sound do not , for the Quinean position , need arguing ; we have ample evidence that they have guided us to the truth on many occasions . |
| 24 | By contrast , the electronic mass media of our contemporary society have made all things new , or rather , have returned us to the primordial situation : |