Example sentences of "us [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of these articles is that they remind us forcibly of the false dawn which often surrounds new treatments . |
| 2 | The columnist Peter Simple tells us most about the British , each Sunday in this newspaper . |
| 3 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 4 | This short cruise took us right behind the great cascade . |
| 5 | The free volume theory deals with the need for space to be available before co-operative motion , characteristic of the glass transition , can be initiated , but it tells us little about the molecular motion itself . |
| 6 | These are ‘ novels squared , novels of novels ’ , a formula which tells us little about the actual narrative rendition of the works in question , but a great deal about the unhappiness of the critic . |
| 7 | We talk about whatever interests us perhaps for the same reason that Willis draws it and paints it . " |
| 8 | These correlations , while of interest , do not tell us much about the political substance of the ‘ class'/party link , but Butler and Stokes pursued this further by soliciting ‘ free ’ responses concerning the reasons for identification with one or other party . |
| 9 | The discovery of even a few of these objects could tell us much about the early history of the Solar System , perhaps more than we would learn from the elusive ( or illusory ) Planet X. Gerald D. Quinlan is at the Lick Observatory , University of California , . |
| 10 | The home of the world 's oldest surviving lifeboat tells us much about the maritime traditions of Captain Cook Country . |
| 11 | The general shortage of comforts and of everything which kept us just above the lowest level of life was sufficiently great to make individuals cling to what they had with something like fanaticism . |
| 12 | This brings us finally to the vexed sentence which sounds so anthropocentric : ‘ That end is man . ’ |
| 13 | My right hon. Friend has shown the utmost skill and stamina over the past two days in keeping us away from the dangerous path towards the centralised Europe that none of us who are good Europeans want to see . |
| 14 | We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents . |
| 15 | It seems to me that however attractive this addendum is , it 's taking us away from the real issue which is about the baptism one which the bishop er also kind of brought up er and which we 've been exercising ourselves over . |
| 16 | It 's especially interesting because our vocalist is female and black , which not only avoids the Tin Machine comparisons , but it gets us away from the whole rock'n'roll boy 's club scenario . |
| 17 | Such questions go well beyond the scope of this book , but they point us away from the epistemological frame of reference of this chapter towards the socio-cultural one of the next . |
| 18 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 19 | Such criticism leads us directly to the higher plains of aestheticism from where it becomes possible to adopt a universal outlook , a point of view based on the sort of timeless values that enable one to study objectively ( unsentimentally , unemotionally and ‘ without rancour ’ ) the lower depths of social reality . |
| 20 | It looked as though the Americans were going to sweep us aside in the early part of the afternoon at one point we had lost the match and were down in eight and up in only one . |
| 21 | From here on in she holds up her chin , flares her nostrils and treats us unreservedly with the sheer contempt that we deserve . |
| 22 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 23 | These muscles have the function of keeping us upright against the ever-present force of gravity ; they have the advantage of never tiring as they need to work for long periods at a time . |
| 24 | It seems to me that all the main political parties are prepared to lead or perhaps , in the absence of a referendum , ‘ drag ’ us further down the European road whether we like it or not . |
| 25 | Now the selection of pupils was another gamble and they were allocated to us straight from the various flying training schools . |
| 26 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 27 | When we finally reached the top of the Bouton Straits the rain had ceased as completely as the wind and it was only the current which carried us eastwards into the luminous open sea . |
| 28 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 29 | We should be getting at least to March all supplied from us now for the next three or four months it should all be from us . |
| 30 | The rest of the band were not available for comment , but all the record companies we spoke to assured us that they had enough new material from Various to see us well into the next century . |