Example sentences of "can [verb] us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can make us grateful that we have so much ( there but for the grace of God go I … ) . |
| 2 | Bereavement can have devastating effects on our defensive cells , but even something as minor as taking an exam can make us more vulnerable to infection . |
| 3 | If they can make us more aware of the Earth and our relationship with it then their study will have been worthwhile . |
| 4 | At last , psychologists claim to have found proof that glossy magazine images of thin , super-sexy models can make us ill . |
| 5 | Justice for the Poor is a vision which can unite us all . |
| 6 | Analysis of progressions leading to dissociation ( at which point the progression breaks off to be replaced by continuous absorption ) can give us accurate values of dissociation energies for simple molecules . |
| 7 | It 's one of the principal forces at the core of the universe , perhaps not the main force , but something that can give us immediate enlightenment if we … ’ |
| 8 | And for us to go forward that is the first major thing we need to do and I 'm appealing today that if people can give us two hours on Saturday morning or a Friday afternoon , we need people , we do n't need two people on a street corner cos we 've done it and it is it we do n't get the effect we want , because most people walk past us . |
| 9 | You can give us two |
| 10 | He can give us this one last chance … " |
| 11 | erm I take refuge in the fact that this is what Proust says , and I report , erm I think this amounts to claiming that the artist can give us privileged insight into life . |
| 12 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 13 | can give us more hall time , and/or more flexible use of spaces appropriate for teaching drama |
| 14 | PERMANENT reinstatement is not only costly in time and money — it can give us severe public relations |
| 15 | The first task with a coin , as with any other artefact , is to try to establish its date and attribute it to a place of manufacture and authority , since we must know where and when it was made before it can give us any information about the past . |
| 16 | If the Minister can give us any example from the privatisation programme , in which the Government have been engaged since 1979 , of a Secretary of State coming to the House in order to bring in check private owners who have subsequently done away with the right of the employees of former public companies , I should be extremely interested to hear about it . |
| 17 | This is the only quotation from Panaetius ( De officiis 1.26.90 ) which can give us some idea of the conversations he had with Scipio in his many years of familiarity with him . |
| 18 | And , while a little pressure can do us good — without it some of us might n't even bother to slither out from under the Slumberdown in the mornings — too much is definitely a bad thing . |
| 19 | If you want to arrange an installation , or service repair , you can contact us 24 hours a day , 365 days a year . |
| 20 | If a fault develops you know you can contact us 24 hours a day , 365 days a year … and we 'll get the problem fixed within 24 hours . |
| 21 | ‘ They can take us all the way across this place . |
| 22 | Well it can hear us all then . |
| 23 | Let us hope Trevor can surprise us all and stay on the park until the end of the season . |
| 24 | If you 'd like more information you can call us free on . |
| 25 | You can call us FREE on any week day , 9.00am to 9.00pm , for an immediate quote and decision . |
| 26 | I hope you can join us all at the same time next Saturday ; United at home to Barnsley in a division two match . |
| 27 | While recognising these problems practitioners of TFP analysis still claim that TFI and TFP , taken together , can tell us useful things about economic performance . |
| 28 | You can tell us all the lies you like . |
| 29 | you can tell us all about it when you 've been over . |
| 30 | I have not attempted to use quantitative techniques or ( with one exception ) statistical analyses , believing that the close inspection of conversational data can tell us more about what " London Jamaican " really is than any quantitative approach . |