Example sentences of "have [verb] us the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No politician could have bettered it : ‘ Experience has taught us the fallibility of the assertion that crime rates amongst those of West Indian origin are no higher than those of the population at large . ’ |
| 2 | Evolution has given us the Canaletto whose complex city perspectives recede infinitely away and now it is itself seen regressing as |
| 3 | Science has given us the technology , but do we have the right to use it ? |
| 4 | TELEVISION has given us the dramatised documentary Last week The Sunday Telegraph , in its report ‘ Cambridge blues as Oxford bags title ’ , gave us the dramatised book review . |
| 5 | I only wonder why nobody has given us the small print of the Social Chapter that Labour and the Liberal Democrats want so badly . |
| 6 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 7 | ‘ He has given us the feeling that we could not have been better prepared , ’ said Hockley after her opening round . |
| 8 | The onward march of technological progress has given us the user-friendly sealed cassette , much more difficult to damage or tamper with — or to intervene in ( and to recreate on modern machines ) . |
| 9 | In addition EMI has given us the engagingly silly Overture on Hebrew Themes ( Béroff with Michel Portal and the Parrenin Quartet ) and Béroff 's 1981 recording of the Visions fugitives . |
| 10 | The East , on the other hand , has given us the long-haired Persian cat from sixteenth-century Iran , the silky Angora cat from Turkey at the same period ( when Ankara was pronounced Angora ) , and the exotic , long-legged Siamese cat from seventeenth-century Thailand . |
| 11 | And in so doing he has given us the joyrider 's equivalent of Neil Young 's ‘ Tonight 's The Night ’ , The Pogues ' ‘ Hell 's Ditch ’ and the Stones ' ‘ Exile On Main Street ’ — one of those awful black records to turn to when you 're feeling at your most morbid . |
| 12 | But through the Spirit , God has given us the ability to fulfil those requirements . |
| 13 | God means us to know that we are in Christ , and has given us the Spirit to assure us . |
| 14 | God means us to grow in Christlikeness , and has given us the Spirit to change us . |
| 15 | God has given us the Holy Spirit so that He can work in His world . |
| 16 | ‘ We are emerging from just about as difficult a period as I can remember in over 37 years in the business , but we are emerging with capital ratios still among the strongest of any of the world 's banks — ready and willing to lend for any viable purpose , and desperate for the chance to show both personal and corporate customers that the personal , flexible , friendly service which we have tried to give in the past and which I hope has given us the privilege of enjoying your company tonight — that same service is still very much on offer today . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Your excellent work has given us the answer to that question , Watson . |
| 18 | This development has given us the opportunity to organise our business to focus again on the changing needs of our customers . |
| 19 | ‘ What matters is that she has given us the most glorious production we have ever had at Hochhauser . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've both been working so hard that this break has given us the opportunity for a second honeymoon , ’ he told her smoothly . |
| 21 | ‘ The success of the over-haul has given us the incentive to improve the plant systems and procedures even further , ’ added Ian . |
| 22 | ‘ Using natural gas has given us the flexibility to run domestic heating from the same boilers , plus leaving the opportunity to heat other outlying areas of the castle at a later stage . ’ |
| 23 | Flashman has made us the laughing stock of football . |
| 24 | In a public statement he agreed meekly that ‘ the resolution has shown us the goals towards which we need to strive to serve the Soviet people better ’ . |
| 25 | A full analysis has shown us the way forward and detailed programmes of personal development are being drawn up for everyone in Chemicals Manufacturing . |
| 26 | But it is a citizen of London who has left us the most elaborate rhapsody which survives from the central Middle Ages on any of the European cities of the day , and William FitzStephen 's glowing vision of the London in which his hero , archbishop Thomas Becket , was born , is a startling reminder that Londoners took fully as much pride in their city as did the Italians of their day — just as the fact that the citizens adopted Thomas Becket as their patron saint reminds us that he was martyred for showing excessive resistance to the king . |
| 27 | Heading up Wood Group engineering 's activities in Dubai and Abu Dhabi is Bill Reid who has sent us the following report : . |
| 28 | The exact origins of the ferret can only be guesswork , but either descendants of the polecat line or variations on the resultant interbreeding between stoats and polecats may have given us the ferret we know today . |
| 29 | If we 'd have gone for plc status first , then it would have given us the chance to work as a proper company . |
| 30 | should have given us the nudge . |