Example sentences of "[adj] tells we [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tells us only about the feasibility of screening , not about effectiveness . |
| 2 | However , while this tells us how not to solve the problem , it is less clear what positive steps we are to take — a dilemma to which I shall return later in the chapter . |
| 3 | This tells us jauntily about smart green sweatshirts now on sale at Darlington tourist information office . |
| 4 | The columnist Peter Simple tells us most about the British , each Sunday in this newspaper . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works . |
| 6 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 7 | We have to put a shelf mark on the book so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject . |
| 8 | Yet the failure of the " Fifteen tells us much about the nature and limitations of the Jacobite position . |
| 9 | In fact , Figure 3.1 tells us very little about what kind of changes are involved in the shift from manufacturing to services or the type of economy that may be emerging . |
| 10 | Table 4.3 tells us where the funds did not go . |