Example sentences of "us [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Apparently , it is up to us to uphold the high standards of Riverbank . ’ |
| 2 | Our histological observations enable us to confirm the strong influence of the above mentioned factors on fundic argyrophil cells and particularly that of MEN 1 since fundic argyrophil cell tumours were found to occur only in patients with MEN 1 with a prevalence of 29.5% . |
| 3 | The long corporate ownership by the abbey enables us to see the early arrangement ; the charter details survive and the ‘ focal place ’ of each period can be defined . |
| 4 | ‘ Because it would be good for some of us to see the first moments of your great fame . ’ |
| 5 | This , we hoped , would permit us to see the various stages of the project in operation from the time when a school began to plan its proposal to the time when the materials purchased with project funds were already in use . |
| 6 | Such evidence only helps us to see the long-term trend over two or three centuries . |
| 7 | This is so contrary to our general assumptions ( namely that the Holy Spirit , however vaguely we conceive of him , is an internal gift for the faithful , appropriate only to be mentioned in church ) that it is important for us to see the crucial link between the Spirit and mission which is presented to us in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 8 | He spoke about the Jews in an Egyptian context , though the fragment preserved by Diodorus and quoted by Photius does not allow us to see the exact place of the Jewish excursus in the plan of his book . |
| 9 | It is God as Father who enables us to see the true essence of God . |
| 10 | This is not meant as a crisis hot-line ; it will enable us to conduct the significant amount of business we have to undertake . |
| 11 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 12 | It may lead us to compare the relative increase in costs over a year , believing that we were comparing like with like . |
| 13 | Early work focused on single cell correlates of sensory stimulation in anaesthetized animals , but advances over the last twenty years have enabled us to monitor the single-cell correlates of behavioural activity in alert , freely moving animals ( O'Keefe and Nadel 1978 ; Olds et al . |
| 14 | If you 'd like details of the new products and services we 've introduced , ask us to include the latest edition of our free 62-page catalogue — ‘ In Touch ’ . |
| 15 | It allows us to segment the external world of experience in all manner of arbitrary ways and to create artificial internal worlds to suit our convenience . |
| 16 | Cairns-Smith invites us to perform the following experiment . |
| 17 | The Germans left us to pull the last rope down and headed off without us , leaving us temporarily disenchanted with international fraternity . |
| 18 | In the second sentence , which has a grain of ambiguity , grammar and meaning do not provide sufficient information for us to neglect the visual analysis . |
| 19 | May I suggest if the thing is worn out it will help us to jump the last hurdle . |
| 20 | Everybody knows — including I think members of the Council from all three political groups — everybody knows that we 've got increasing numbers of elderly people , we 've got increasing numbers of disabled and mentally ill people in the community , and if there is one service , and I know there are others , but if there is one service that needs constant new growth it 's Social Services , and that 's not me empire building or anything like that , that 's me simply saying in straight managerial terms there are forces which require us to increase the Social Services budget . |
| 21 | er Well it 's very easy to er blame government for not allocating resources , er but er the pure fact is that the health authority has insufficient resources to allocate to us to meet the increasing demands of this area . |
| 22 | A typical school policy statement about staff development will include definitions such as " it is essential that we continue to grow in professional stature and experience , backed by the support of a comprehensive programme of in-service opportunities designed to help all of us to meet the growing demands with confidence , a sense of purpose and , as can be the case , an increased personal job satisfaction " ( Hewton 1988:88 ) . |
| 23 | This has allowed us to purify the wild type and mutant endonuclease enzyme and to analyse the effect of the temperature-sensitive mutation in vitro . |
| 24 | As in 1813 the people looked to us to destroy the Napoleonic terror , so today in 1943 they look to us to destroy the terror of National Socialism . |
| 25 | Eleven years as the principal tour operators in Nidri enable us to choose the best accommodation in town . |
| 26 | Whereas the additional funding allocated to IT in the current financial year will enable us to install the necessary capital equipment , connection to the Internet will involve the payment of annual subscription charges to Mercury and EUCS , for which no provision has been made in the Computing Recurrent Expenditure budget . |
| 27 | The COBE results now allow us to constrain the very-large-scale range of fluctuations . |
| 28 | Second , however , he asserted that , if your Lordships ' House were to accept Woolwich 's argument , it would be impossible for us to set the appropriate limits to the application of the principle . |
| 29 | All these ideas are fun , of course , but they do not help us to answer the original question . |
| 30 | It is especially this formation which enables us to define the difficult concept of a fraction . |