Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] can [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our sexual condition can help us to recognize how guarded we are , or how self-seeking , manipulative , or fearful we are , instead of being trusting , selfless , kindly , reverent and free in the bonds of love . |
| 2 | This distinction can help us to give the best version of logical empiricism . |
| 3 | This point can help us understand the contradictions within recorded popular music : the fact that there is no simple return to oral techniques ; that the record form carries a vast range of content types ( including ‘ literate ’ ballads related to bourgeois traditions ) ; that production methods also differ widely , often using written components as well as ‘ oral ’ techniques ; that the modern recording studio is actually more suited to producing precisely synchronized rhythms and textures , and complex structural processes , than is notation ( as well as being suited also to other things ) . |
| 4 | What archaeology can not do is tell us the names of the people and what great deeds they did , how they influenced each other , and what they thought and believed in — these are things that only historical evidence can tell us . |
| 5 | We ca n't make any more hours in the day , but careful planning can allow us to use this time-saving piece of equipment as efficiently as possible . |
| 6 | Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time . |
| 7 | And , his answer to that , is that psychoanalysis can give us a very interesting and unique insight into , into religion , and this was an insight which had emerged in the course of , the nineteen twenties , following the developments of psychoanalysis that occurred after the First World War , which we 've already looked at and is essentially the concept of transference . |
| 8 | Only such anthropology can give us the all-round vision of primitive man and primitive culture . ’ |
| 9 | As violent crime against elderly people seems to increase , the resulting moral outcry can blind us to the fact that huge numbers of elderly people are abused in their own homes by carers — sons , daughters , husbands , wives , other relatives as friends , and paid carers . |
| 10 | There are severe limits on what simple introspection can tell us about reading , however . |
| 11 | But , that revelation can tell us things ‘ above reason ’ does not make it superior to it . |
| 12 | In life , however , the light of reason is dusty and obscured , and it is unclear how far this ideal type can help us to explain the course of our social existence . |
| 13 | How often a sudden aroma can take us back to an earlier time in our lives and cause us to feel happy or sad depending on the memories aroused . |
| 14 | Thus a cross-national study can tell us something at a more general level about how public enterprises ‘ work ’ . |
| 15 | We need the information the injured girl can give us when she comes round . |
| 16 | But if spatial relations within a phenomenological space can tell us nothing about the numerical diversity of ontological objects , there is even less that can be gleaned in this respect from temporal relations within a phenomenological time . |
| 17 | When we turn to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving , God will fill us with the peace which passes all understanding , nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God which is expressed in Jesus Christ his son , our Lord . |
| 18 | Obviously their monetary role can tell us much about monetary and perhaps also economic activity in any society , and this aspect will be discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 19 | Experiential learning and student-centred learning can enable us to develop an increased awareness of helping people to make choices for themselves . |
| 20 | If Lukács ' objections to modernism laid the basis for all contemporary objections to poststructuralism , his continuing influence can help us to understand why history in particular is privileged here . |
| 21 | This process of the reduction of complexity on a theoretical level is only acceptable if the theoretical perception somehow reflects reality — the question , therefore , is whether a rights-based theory can help us to understand the complexities of twentieth-century law and government . |
| 22 | When he concluded by saying that : ‘ We at the ANC are convinced that cricket can assist us in achieving the new South Africa to which we all aspire , ’ he was warmly applauded by the tourists management and captain Kepler Wessels . |
| 23 | The fact that a particular sort of rationality is of our very essence explains why rational thinking can lead us to ethical self control . |
| 24 | On the other hand , he may not ; and only research can tell us , particularly if we want to know about outcomes for numbers of people . |
| 25 | Only one man can help us . ’ |
| 26 | example An essay showing that the linguistic theory of Conversational Analysis can help us understand how characters in Conrad 's novels control each other through the ways they interact in speech . |
| 27 | And , while a little pressure can do us good — without it some of us might n't even bother to slither out from under the Slumberdown in the mornings — too much is definitely a bad thing . |
| 28 | There is more than one way to tackle this problem , but a very widely used and mathematically elegant technique called multi-dimensional scaling can help us . |
| 29 | The Fractal Geometry of Nature reminds us that mathematics can surprise us with insights into the world in which we live ; it has the most beautiful graphics 1 have ever seen in a mathematics book . |
| 30 | The support can work the other way ; physiological knowledge can help us to build models . |