Example sentences of "us of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does the text tend to be repetitious but each item of gear if prefaced by an otherwise blank page informing us of the Key Point to be gleaned in that section , pearls of wisdom such as : ‘ A file is useful for sharpening the edges of your … hooks . |
| 2 | Nonetheless the characterization of the fabliau writer in the text is a worthwhile subject of study , for an assessment of the tone of the fabliau beyond anything it might tell us of the usual origins of such texts . |
| 3 | The popularity of the Polonaise in D has always outshone that of its A major companion , and Ricci includes both , reminding us of the splendid verve and zest of these overtly nationalistic works . |
| 4 | So far as the old , mutually dependent carers are concerned , this work is valuable in reminding us of the substantial numbers of men who perform these functions for their wives . |
| 5 | Over and above all this , John tells us of the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit with the spirit of the believer , assuring him that God 's testimony to his Son is reliable , assuring him that the Christian experience is real . |
| 6 | The fourth and most important implication of the placebo response is that it reminds us of the beneficial effect of the successful physician-patient encounter . |
| 7 | Over a cognac he gloomily informs us of the Japanese surrender . |
| 8 | When called upon to tell us of the exemplary conditions in his new factories at Bournville , Mr Cadbury — his looks belying his years and status — refused to blow his own trumpet and blushingly declined to speak . |
| 9 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 10 | If you need to obtain shareholder or to other approval prior to completion , you should inform us of the specific clearances that you need to obtain and confirm your ability to exchange contracts by Friday 1st December , 19XX . |
| 11 | He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet . |
| 12 | It reminds us of the deadly risks which our police officers run on on our behalf , day and night . |
| 13 | The portrait of the leader of the Sicilian slaves , Eunus , irresistibly reminds us of the Posidonian fragment on Athenion . |
| 14 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 15 | The term ‘ emancipation ’ reminds us of the liberal aspiration — and indeed the Marxist claim — that self-knowledge and self-understanding can offer new possibilities for thought and action . |
| 16 | Earlier in the debate , the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) told us of the Liberal Democrats ' proposals for a local income tax . |
| 17 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 18 | It is a timely reminder to us of the true value and cost of ’ rediscovered ’ writers , and a challenge to Black women writers , not just in the USA , but throughout the Black Diaspora to get our act together and chronicle our lives and our times for ourselves . |
| 19 | Having examined the fabric of a church , what can this tell us of the local landscape ? |
| 20 | All the old historians when mentioning Hailing tell us of the old Manor of Langridge or Bavents , each one describes the antiquity of the Manor from Adam de Bavent to the various owners of their period until we reach William Baker . |
| 21 | Similarly , Jackson , reminding us of the different varieties of bureaucrat identified by Downs ( 1967 ) , questions the assumption that everything contributing to a bureaucrat 's utility function can be represented by the bureau 's budget . |
| 22 | Sir : Jonathan Glancey ( Architecture ; ‘ Invisible buildings that reflect nothing ’ , 4 October ) does well to remind us of the spreading disease of the mirrored glass building . |
| 23 | What price a higher handicap for those of us of the bow-legged persuasion . |
| 24 | But much exists in their architecture to tell us of the social conditions , wealth , success or decline of towns . |
| 25 | Johnson ( loc. cit. ) indeed , makes a good case for the mosaic as a product of a group of mosaicists based at Ilchester — an argument which , even if not accepted in detail ( section 4.8 ) , reminds us of the important affinities between this mosaic and others to the south . |
| 26 | Hilary assured us of the continuing interest in Medau in Britain shown by the Medau Schule in Germany and teachers will be very pleased to learn that a new movement block in Coburg is to be named after Molly . |
| 27 | Alayn , too , immediately afterwards , manages to remind us of the sexual sense of " to ride " in his farewell to Malyne : The miller , too , is like a horse in his sleep ; in his case , however , in his unselfconscious drunken snoring and farting ( 4162 ) . |
| 28 | It is hard to judge how effective MI6 is today because on the only recent occasion it was needed , to warn us of the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982 , it either failed completely or the Foreign Office deliberately presented MI6 's information to the government in a way that precluded it being taken seriously . |
| 29 | Could all teams also inform us of the proposed date and venue of their tie so that we can send a photographer when possible . |
| 30 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |