Example sentences of "tell us the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They can also tell us the correct name of a city .
2 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 .
3 Perhaps this afternoon he will tell us the Labour party 's attitude to this imaginative development .
4 Can the Secretary of State tell us the real social cost to our country of the devastation of our manufacturing industry and our economy ?
5 Every day at rehearsals , James would tell us the distinguished content of the previous night 's audience .
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