Example sentences of "us of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 2 | The word ‘ fatuous ’ reminds us of the title , meaning idiotic — Owen then asks the reader , why did the sun 's rays labour over waking up earth ? |
| 3 | The table of the Nations in Genesis 10 reminds us of the map of Anaximander ; the Book of Job , probably an exilic work , has often been compared with Aeschylus ' Prometheus . |
| 4 | In this issue , Ruby Johnston tells us of the experience of a group of nurses in Ireland who have had to adapt to the challenge of this new way of working with communities . |
| 5 | If these variations remind us of the history of the Alps , then so much the better : we may find a better balance to the continuing battle between development and conservation . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 7 | This forewarns us of the issue of SELECTION which will be taken up in Chapter 2 . |
| 8 | The Festival of Britain sought to persuade us of the imminence of a better and less contorted world . |
| 9 | How well they remind us of the purpose for which the ark has been fetched ! |
| 10 | The distinctive sloping pantile roof of the Chapel of Reconciliation came into view and soon we were descending stiffly from the coaches and joyfully into church to receive a special word of welcome from our Bishop , in which he reminded us of the purpose of a pilgrimage , together with our special intentions . |
| 11 | The wildfire growth of the Boy Scouts serves to remind us of the enormity of the Edwardian era 's preoccupation with its youth , and the groundswell of not only national enthusiasm but also deep funds of social anxiety . |
| 12 | This not only reminds us of the existence of a non-state section of education ( which as we write in mid-1987 seems set only to increase in size ) , but also in drawing attention to the relations between the state and non-state sectors , points out features of the conditions under which the former operates that are frequently taken for granted . |
| 13 | Advent reminds us of the significance of God 's time . |
| 14 | Draping an arm about Seb 's shoulders , Noah said , ‘ Thank you for warning us of the magistrate 's approach , Seb . |
| 15 | The paradigm example to remind us of the conventionality of the relationship between meanings and perceptions is the case of expressions for colour , and this holds good even if we are willing to accept a case for the universality of certain focal points of colour perception . ) |
| 16 | Maybe part of the daisy 's popularity lies in its shape , a yellow disk fringed with white petals ( correctly ray-florets ) , a simple arrangement which reminds us of the sun . |
| 17 | That first visit convinced us of the magnitude of what lay ahead : the task of regreening our country . |
| 18 | It reminds us of the question : how does the term ‘ language-games ’ bring this into prominence ? |
| 19 | It was a quaint speech , telling us of the Government 's ’ astonishing success ’ in bringing the north and south of the United Kingdom together . |
| 20 | There are also two paths , d and e , in figure 13.7 which represent the other unspecified causes ; all variables in a model which have causal paths leading to them must also have arrows reminding us of the proportion unpredicted by the model . |
| 21 | Much later in the books of Samuel we find another story concerning the ark which reminds us of the battle with the Philistines . |
| 22 | Just to convince us that all these things that he tells us about are somehow present , to convince us of the heinousness of what he 's done . |
| 23 | Positively , the theory asserts that there is something about the sensation which correlates with the stimulation being at a certain point , and which can thus , in time , become a sign to us of the stimulation being at that point . |
| 24 | Frequently these words are purportedly used by the characters within the fabliaux , such as the examples quoted above from Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , but such terms are also quite often used by the narrators propria voce : in Le Pescheor de Pont seur Saine , " The Fisherman of Pont-sur-Seine " , for instance , a tale of sexual envy in a marriage , the narrator soon bluntly tells us of the couple that the man : ( He held her down |
| 25 | To see it , is another matter — such is the hold on us of the myth of mental processes . |
| 26 | We are grateful to the concerned Dogs Today reader who informed us of the lobbying activities of this organisation . |
| 27 | The technique by which in the fourth century B.C. the Chronicler rewrote and modernized the Books of Kings reminds us of the technique by which in the late fourth century Ephorus and Theopompus rewrote and modernized Herodotus and Thucydides . |
| 28 | The lack of coins deprives us of the evidence to form any assessment of their dynastic histories or tribal boundaries . |
| 29 | It reminds us of the idea that , while we have carved up knowledge and put it into the hands of separate academic professions , ultimately all knowledge is bound up together . |
| 30 | He is reminding us of the way we are coming to the Lord . |