Example sentences of "let we [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She let us have two rooms but there was no visible staff , and the dining-room was closed : we ate , that evening , in a shabby bar in the middle of the town .
2 When the Countess saw that Emily was going to be good for nothing , she let us have this house , as I say — she was Scottish , and had property here that was mostly sold after she died .
3 As I say if they took my wages into consideration they would have let us buy next door even .
4 Let us contrast those achievements with Labour 's record in office .
5 Let us fulfil that purpose , not for own advantage , but out of our duty to the people of our country and the people of our world .
6 Let us assume that DHA 1 does that and its capital charge reduces from £2.2m to £2.0m .
7 First , let us assume fixed proportions in production .
8 Leaving aside the question of which came first , let us assume active interest on the part of the man , and a potential interest on the part of the woman .
9 Let us relate this statement to the example above .
10 Let us study three birds which are very different in anatomy and lifestyle .
11 Let us give special thought today to those people who have devoted their lives to helping the poor and needy in impoverished parts of the world .
12 For one more example , let us compare two terms which will be familiar to many readers ; when the phrase logical theory is used , an obvious difference of meaning is involved , depending on whether we are talking about a theory which has the characteristic of being logical ( with ascriptive interpretation of the adjective ) or about a theory which is concerned with aspects of logic ( associative use ) .
13 First let us exclude all cases where we are concerned with something which actually is , or is taken to be , a bull or cow or calf in a real or imagined external world , when the use is plainly ascriptive .
14 ( perhaps one should say that as such a psychological statement it would express my awareness that I have the belief rather than my belief that I have the belief , since belief is not quite the right word in this context , but let us leave such qualifications to be understood . )
15 Come , let us leave this chaos . ’
16 But let us regard that stage as over , there was a gesture to be made , and you have made it , and I am grateful !
17 Let us distinguish two cases .
18 Again , from our vantage point , we know that each is suited to a particular kind of flight and life style ; but let us ignore that fact , and continue with the primitive analysis .
19 Let us skirt round professor Joan Bicknell , a major authority in child psychiatry .
20 Let us retain this distinction from ‘ acting ’ by using the term ‘ presentation ’ in a sense akin to what Goffman ( 1969 ) means by ‘ presentation of self in everyday life ’ .
21 Let us make one comparison .
22 Secondly , to make the mathematics easier , let us make some assumptions .
23 Let us conclude this section on protection by tabulating our analysis .
24 Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it .
25 The mathematics of the equilibrium are still by no means certain , but let us pass that problem by , to consider an experimental test of the theory .
26 Let us abandon that assumption and see what happens .
27 So let us promote better health for the population that we have at present instead of experimenting with high-cost technology .
28 For example , let us suppose that depreciation depends only on the age of the car , not its mileage .
29 Let us suppose that male and female each have an active and a passive means of expressing light .
30 Let us do this problem again , but now we will use algebra to work out the boy 's weight .
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