Example sentences of "tell us [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately the teeth of higher vertebrates can tell us a good deal . |
| 2 | Likewise in archaeology AMS has enabled us to date samples as minute as individual seeds , which can tell us a great deal about the origins of agriculture and the domestication of cereals . |
| 3 | To use the analogy of the archaeological site once more , there are finds which can tell us a great deal . |
| 4 | These can tell us a great deal about past environments and climate during the time of their accumulation , but there are many ways by which small mammal accumulations occur in the natural world . |
| 5 | This does not tell us a great deal . |
| 6 | Moreover , studies of the spectra of the stars can tell us a great deal about their real luminosities , and hence about their distances ; once you know how powerful an object really is , and compare it with its apparent brilliancy , you can work out how far away it must be , provided that due allowance is made for complicating factors such as the absorption of light by material spread thinly through space . |
| 7 | The history and practice of press coverage of religion will tell us a great deal about the significance of the phenomenon of religion in contemporary social , political and cultural life , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Milton Keynes can tell us a great deal about late twentieth-century hopes and aims in a democratic car-owning society , quite apart from having the best range of modern domestic architecture in England . |
| 9 | These samples can tell us a great deal about the health of the patients . |
| 10 | Moreover , stateless societies are either small tribal societies , or small communities within a larger political system , and their political arrangements do not tell us a great deal that is relevant to the great majority of human societies . |
| 11 | Now could you tell us a little bit about your brothers and sisters ? |
| 12 | Yes , well could I ask you to er tell us a little bit Lord the jury and and in December of nineteen eighty eight what was your rank and job ? |
| 13 | Can you tell us a little bit about the recipe for running such a successful shop ? |
| 14 | They can also tell us the correct name of a city . |
| 15 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 16 | Perhaps this afternoon he will tell us the Labour party 's attitude to this imaginative development . |
| 17 | Every day at rehearsals , James would tell us the distinguished content of the previous night 's audience . |