Example sentences of "let us [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us disregard the moral overtones which are irrelevant anyway to the concept of lying ( what makes lying bad is what is bad about what makes it lying ) . |
| 2 | Let us remind the Labour Party that they should be attacking this useless Tory government , not supporting them , not voting with them , not supporting them by abstaining when necessary we 'll never get power that way ! |
| 3 | Let us leave the last words with Walter Abish who declares that ‘ the innovative novel is , in essence , a novel of disfamiliarization , a novel that has ceased to concern itself with the mapping of the ‘ familiar ’ world ’ ( Martin 1983 : 238 ) . |
| 4 | Let us leave the last word to Nietzsche , whose cruel intelligence is quickened only by the taste of bitter truths . |
| 5 | At the outset , let us distinguish the different types of disputes , dealt with by the courts that have greater or lesser political relevance . |
| 6 | For the moment , let us ignore the modern specialised approach and concentrate on tackling a typical carp lake which will allow you to fish it in whatever style you choose . |
| 7 | In order to obtain the B-H curve let us make the following experiment . |
| 8 | Let us make the conservative assumption that CD-X follows the same trend but that by mid-decade it achieves a penetration of about 25 per cent of CD-A , rising to 60 per cent of CD-A by the year 2000 ( obviously much depends on when CD-X appears ! ) . |
| 9 | Let us make the fourth choice — which actual apartments you 'll be staying in — and you 'll find yourself with a whole lot more holiday spending money into the bargain . |
| 10 | This is made crystal clear in a somewhat laboured exposition in a book by Preece and Maier published in 1889 : Let us suppose the two microphonic transmitters are placed on the stage at T and T 1 , and these transmitters separately connected by two distinct wires to two telephone receivers , R and R 1 , which are applied to both ears to hear the actor , whom we will suppose to be placed at A. It is easy to understand that , the distance of this actor from transmitter T being less than that from transmitter T 1 , his song will be more distinctly reproduced by transmitter T than by T 1 , and the stronger impression will be produced on the left ear . |
| 11 | Let us hope the Medical Research Council can rumble a few answers . |
| 12 | Before we consider each of these offences in outline , let us examine the practical and theoretical foundations for them . |
| 13 | Let us examine the first two phases . |
| 14 | Above all , let us acknowledge the two principles , Dionysiac and Apolline , as the basis of tragedy , their highest achievement . |
| 15 | Let us illustrate the above by considering a traditional telephone system . |
| 16 | Over the following pages we profile the winners , but first let us remember the past year with a whirlwind tour … |
| 17 | In this case let us consider the healthy child and the illnesses that commonly occur in childhood . |
| 18 | Let us consider the following balanced equation : This equation represents the reaction system as a whole . |
| 19 | Let us consider the following two cases . |
| 20 | To illustrate this more fully , let us consider the following passage , which is transcribed from a tape-recording of spontaneous speech ( the speaker is describing a picture ) . |
| 21 | Let us consider the possible scenarios . |
| 22 | Let us consider the pivotal proposition of the section on Proust , that the " relationship between the literal and the figural senses of a metaphor is always … metonymic " . |
| 23 | So much for the ancestral sources of signals : let us consider the evolutionary process by which they are modified from ancestral behaviour to elaborate signal . |
| 24 | Let us consider the key elements of any policy to combat age discrimination in employment . |
| 25 | Let us consider the ongoing development of NHS finance within this framework . |
| 26 | Let us consider the latter theory first and see where it falls short . |
| 27 | Let us consider the simple planing to dimensions , of a piece of timber . |
| 28 | Let us consider the simple concept ‘ red ’ as an example . |
| 29 | 4.6 There is ample further evidence for regarding the second and third elements in such sequences — unlike the others we have seen so far — as jointly equivalent to a clause at the intensional level ; let us consider the four points which follow : First , most or all such phrases accept the insertion of the explicit predicator to be in front of the adjective ( and to be seems to be more or less obligatory when such adjectives are questioned ) ; we have already seen examples ( e.g. ( 35 ) , ( 41 ) ) . |
| 30 | Since it is only by understanding his own fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of pain-language that we can hope to see through questions and answers about ‘ Other Minds ’ , let us consider the positive side of his teaching first . |