Example sentences of "us [verb] [that] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further discussion with Sir Henry led us to agree that the telegram must be delivered , but that I should take it in person to the Editor and see if something less embarrassing could be agreed . |
| 2 | This would never yield anything like a reduction of one to the other , but Carnap supposes that it still allowed us to claim that the concept of a material object could be reduced to ‘ autopsychological concepts ’ , those which concern the nature of one 's own sensory states . |
| 3 | A year of lessons and sulking resulted in eight badly played bars of ‘ Little Donkey ’ , and all four of us agreed that the instrument was superfluous to requirements . |
| 4 | This would be the most natural way of questioning any of the predicative adjectives in ( 30 ) — and could be used just as well for the second and third cases of ( 28 ) : ( 30 ) his accountant was sensible Helen 's profile is striking the new coin is octagonal Just as the contrast between how ? and which ? reflects the contrast of structural position between postnominal attributive and predicate qualifier , so the contrast of question words between how ? and what ? or what … like ? allows us to infer that an adjective in ordinary predicative position is not a plausible origin for the predicate qualifier . |
| 5 | With regard to the possibility of the former , information obtained from the LEA allowed us to establish that the proportion of the different categories of teachers responding corresponded closely with their prevalence in the population of Solihull secondary teachers as a whole . |
| 6 | Phone call from our School Nurse to let us know that the School Doctor , who had to cancel medicals because of illness , is out of hospital but will not be back to work for some time . |
| 7 | But it is one thing for us to know that a person needs God 's conviction and another thing to say so to him . |
| 8 | On the 18th Braid hit his 2nd shot into the road and he ‘ might have damaged the steam roller ’ so it is some comfort for us to know that the course 's own architect was penalised by his own design . |
| 9 | The excitement of The Place of the Lion is in its power to shake the reader up — to make us feel that the world is not the place we thought it was . |
| 10 | He is asking us to remember that the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done , by someone who is a better judge , someone more in possession of all the facts . |
| 11 | Let us assume that a cat stalks a duck until it gets within striking distance . |
| 12 | As an example , let us assume that a package exists and that some of the constituent modules are also contained in other packages which have different managers . |
| 13 | Let us assume that a stock is selling at $50 , with undisclosed good news which will ultimately cause the stock to sell for $60 , and that no factors other than the good news will affect the price . |
| 14 | Let us assume that the survey is fine . |
| 15 | The sentence has 28 characters in it , so let us assume that the monkey has a series of discrete " tries ' , each consisting of 28 bashes at the keyboard . |
| 16 | To complicate the situation , let us assume that the package under consideration is itself called up from a higher package with a different manager . |
| 17 | Let us assume that the directive is fully supported by the Government , who do not wish to amend one jot or comma of it and who are willing to sign up to its immediate implementation . |
| 18 | Let us assume that the economy inherits a real wage rate w 1 . |
| 19 | However , let us assume that the habit is broken . |
| 20 | Floyd 's Algorithm works with the adjacency matrix representation of G. For convenience , let us assume that the vertex set of G is so that G is represented by a variable A of type |
| 21 | Let us assume that the value of child benefit , currently at £7.25 , be doubled ( as is proposed as part of the tax changes in chapter 19 ) . |
| 22 | To take a specific example , let us assume that the production function all of a sudden shifts ‘ upwards ’ . |
| 23 | Thus the research so far on the origin of parish churches leads us to suspect that a lot of early churches disappeared in the reforms and rationalisations of the early Middle Ages . |
| 24 | In summary , the α-truncated RNA polymerases are unable to protect the final upstream helical turn of the promoter from DNAaseI cleavage in contrast to wild-type enzyme and this prompted us to suspect that the mutant enzymes had lost important contacts with the phosphates near the -40 region . |
| 25 | But before the idea is condemned out of hand , let us remember that the price of petrol has just been brought down by 18p a gallon . |
| 26 | And let us remember that the State of the Union depends on each and every one of us . " |
| 27 | Let us remember that the printing press never wrote a single book . |
| 28 | The observation that large , predatory species of fish do not usually swim in schools might lead us to suggest that the advantage of schooling is in defence against predators , for large predatory fish are not themselves subject to predation . |
| 29 | This leaves us to assume that the beneficiary ought to pay in the event that ( iii ) it could not be shown that the testator , had he known the land was pledged , would have left something else or ( iv ) the testator did not know the land was pledged . |
| 30 | Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real , when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real , but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation " . |