Example sentences of "[vb base] we [vb infin] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Let us contrast those achievements with Labour 's record in office .
2 Let us fulfil that purpose , not for own advantage , but out of our duty to the people of our country and the people of our world .
3 Let us assume that DHA 1 does that and its capital charge reduces from £2.2m to £2.0m .
4 Let us relate this statement to the example above .
5 First let us exclude all cases where we are concerned with something which actually is , or is taken to be , a bull or cow or calf in a real or imagined external world , when the use is plainly ascriptive .
6 ( perhaps one should say that as such a psychological statement it would express my awareness that I have the belief rather than my belief that I have the belief , since belief is not quite the right word in this context , but let us leave such qualifications to be understood . )
7 Come , let us leave this chaos . ’
8 But let us regard that stage as over , there was a gesture to be made , and you have made it , and I am grateful !
9 Again , from our vantage point , we know that each is suited to a particular kind of flight and life style ; but let us ignore that fact , and continue with the primitive analysis .
10 Let us retain this distinction from ‘ acting ’ by using the term ‘ presentation ’ in a sense akin to what Goffman ( 1969 ) means by ‘ presentation of self in everyday life ’ .
11 Secondly , to make the mathematics easier , let us make some assumptions .
12 Let us conclude this section on protection by tabulating our analysis .
13 Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it .
14 The mathematics of the equilibrium are still by no means certain , but let us pass that problem by , to consider an experimental test of the theory .
15 Let us abandon that assumption and see what happens .
16 For example , let us suppose that depreciation depends only on the age of the car , not its mileage .
17 Let us suppose that male and female each have an active and a passive means of expressing light .
18 Let us do this problem again , but now we will use algebra to work out the boy 's weight .
19 I shall be elaborating upon this point in a short while , but for the moment let us observe that fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete , ineffectual and impoverished .
20 Let us examine these points .
21 So let us examine this problem of ‘ force feeding ’ more closely .
22 But let us examine this definition itself more closely .
23 Let us examine some examples .
24 Let us consider each level of knowledge individually .
25 Now that we have provisionally fixed what a signal is , and how one may be recognized , let us consider some examples of signals — the songs of birds , the pheromones of moths and ants , and the dance of honeybees — before we consider the theoretical question of why signals have evolved in the form that we see in nature .
26 Finally , let us consider some motion verbs that have built-in deictic components , English come vs. go makes some sort of distinction between the direction of motion relative to participants in the speech event ( the exposition here follows Fillmore , 1966 , 1975 : 50ff ) .
27 Let us consider these points in relation to a hypothetical case .
28 Let us consider another analogy , this time not so contrasting .
29 Some are evidently more equal than others in this system of justice ; let us consider another example .
30 Let us consider both types of control a little more fully .
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