Example sentences of "tell us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whether he 'd tell us over the telephone , you think ask . |
| 2 | Surprise ( in the sense studied in Baillargeon 's experiment — passive capture of visual attention ) is not an action so it can not tell us about central system function . |
| 3 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 4 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 5 | What do these tests tell us about mental performance ? |
| 6 | ‘ Do tell us about your apprentice days , Daddy , ’ said Vicky . |
| 7 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 8 | They can tell us about political slogans ( see pp. 37–8 ) , and give us important information about the people and places who made them . |
| 9 | What can they tell us about the nature of an economy ? |
| 10 | How do the constitutional procedures and general political procedures in the other countries of the EC compare and what do these differences tell us about their attitudes to European integration ? |
| 11 | What does that tell us about him ? ’ |
| 12 | Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals . |
| 13 | Anything else you can tell us about Herr Hamnett , or the other man ? ’ |
| 14 | The spacecraft results also confirm that ground-based observations can indirectly tell us about fluctuations in the solar constant . |
| 15 | Can you tell us about that ? ’ |
| 16 | What does this tell us about a biblical attitude regarding our partner 's body in the marriage relationship ? |
| 17 | We need to know not only the practical arrangements for the resident members , but anything you can tell us about Dominic Wetherby himself . |
| 18 | This meant he could tell us about his experience and shed some light on the strengths and weaknesses of the nursing care he received during his 15-day stay in the unit . |
| 19 | All you have to do is tell us about the worst computer nightmare you 've ever had . |
| 20 | It will tell us about the individuals ' ability to make and maintain new relationships . |
| 21 | It will tell us about former hobbies and interests which may be important in future plans . |
| 22 | ‘ Chrissie did n't tell us about that , ’ said Hatch quietly . |
| 23 | This , in turn , will cause us to address the broader issue of whether there is , in a more general sense , a genuine , causal association between insanity and at least some forms of creativity ; and , if that is so , what it can tell us about the underlying qualities of psychosis and of the creative process . |
| 24 | The Captain was saying to the Sub-lieutenant , ‘ I want to know everything she can tell us about the Maxwell girl , family , friends , habits , etcetera — everything . |
| 25 | However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved . |
| 26 | Given that all those involved were volunteers , and had been chosen at random to be guards or prisoners , what does this tell us about the influence of power on human behaviour ? |
| 27 | Thus a detailed knowledge of the material conditions in which communities have lived will tell us about the constraints under which they have laboured ; and this in turn will help us to understand some of their properties . |
| 28 | Cox ( 1981 ) is interested in what women 's subjectivity may tell us about matriarchal modes of consciousness . |
| 29 | The writer then explores what research can tell us about the impact of national policies on families , the impact of community attitudes , children 's experiences of divorce and step-families and some of the traumas children suffer in the course of family life , sometimes so great that they are driven to run away and then incur other serious problems for which inadequate provision is made in the community as a whole . |
| 30 | If it is shown that young people who leave care and have been trained to live independently move quickly into group living situations , what does this tell us about provision for older adolescents ? |