Example sentences of "[vb pp] us [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has certainly reminded us that the decade is likely to be characterised by low growth and tight competition , and that retailers need to be positioned with a low cost base , flexible work-force and strong retail formats to meet the challenges of the next few years . |
| 2 | We are all what Nature and nurture have made us and every human problem represents the impact of circumstance upon the personality thus formed . |
| 3 | Engineers have told us that the blast furnaces are at risk . |
| 4 | Market research has told us that the average Punch reader is an ABC1 25–40-year-old male with a suspiciously large collection of unopened bottles of soda water . |
| 5 | He has told us that the minister relied on the legal advice from within the Department when he issued his directive to the area health authority and put in the commissioners . |
| 6 | The General Secretary has told us that the documen the special document on cooperation with the T & g was carefully written . |
| 7 | Psychoanalysis has made unfamiliar with the intimate connection between the father-complex and belief in God ; it has shown us that a personal God is psychologically nothing other than an exalted father , and it brings us evidence every day of how young people lose their religious beliefs as soon as their father 's authority breaks down . |
| 8 | By that time Tommy had left us and the Chief Met Officer was a man called Mr Donaldson . |
| 9 | Politicians and health service managers have repeatedly assured us that a two tier service is not on the agenda . |
| 10 | Wittgenstein and Ryle have taught us that no kind of philosophical argument is exempt from the danger of vitiation by concealed analogies . |
| 11 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |
| 12 | But , says Hall modestly and realistically , ‘ Drilling has taught us that the first models we worked with were only the simplest of a large number of possibilities that were consistent with the observations . |
| 13 | Quantum theory has taught us that the vacuum is not a featureless void but is continuously disturbed by particle-anti-particle pair creation and annihilation and that this endows the vacuum with energy . |
| 14 | FOLLOWING the report on the Beech 18 entered in next year 's Round the World Air Race by Len Perry in last month 's News pages , Len has informed us that the Beech will not now be entered in the race due to modifications needed to meet the specification for the race detracting from the overall authenticity of the aircraft . |
| 15 | Before we have had the opportunity to vote on that policy , the autumn statement has informed us that the Government will not promote training or fill the training gap that has developed in recent years . |