Example sentences of "[subord] [det] [prep] us [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 2 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 3 | More silver coins than any of us would find in a lifetime , all into the melting-pot . |
| 4 | As Giles says , you 're already wiser than any of us would like . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that unemployment across the whole of the European Community is higher than any of us would like ? |
| 6 | Although most of us can recognize without difficulty the importance that the emotions play in our lives , the subject has been given little systematic attention by the disciplines most concerned with furthering understanding of human behaviour . |
| 7 | If she wo n't let you I 'll help you and if neither of us can do it quietly we 'll call my master to do it for us . |
| 8 | If each of us could play our own small part , those parts would link up , like the ripples on a pond , to make a earth-saving whole . |
| 9 | Without John I doubt if any of us would have got past the first post . |
| 10 | While most of us would admit to having hurt another person deliberately , we recoil in horror from the thought of subjecting someone to extreme pain for impersonal reasons . |
| 11 | While most of us would acknowledge that some level of stress is required to enable us to function and to be sufficiently motivated , the effects of continued high levels of stress have been shown to have a damaging effect on the ability to maintain our personal sense of purpose , usefulness and well-being . |
| 12 | After all , while most of us would condemn escapism as a total way of life , our capacity to use our imaginations to construct alternative worlds into which we can temporarily retreat is certainly a central human characteristic and seems , on the whole , a valuable one . |
| 13 | While most of us can recall dreams at least occasionally , there is a sizeable minority of people who claim never to dream , and who understandably have some difficulty in understanding what everyone else is talking about . |
| 14 | Before either of us could react to this confession , unexpected even to me , I ploughed on . |
| 15 | And , before any of us could do anything , she flitted like a ghost back into the trees . |
| 16 | Mum has rheumatoid arthritis and , as neither of us could manage the stairs , we shared the same room downstairs . |
| 17 | We considered various possibilities , but as neither of us could drive far and neither of us could face airport hassle , we decided to go for a week to Wales . |
| 18 | The association has stated clearly that it is up to British Rail — and , perhaps , the Government — to take such dangers into account if they wish to increase railway speeds , as many of us would like , and to ensure that people can cross the line safely , even if that means the Government providing the money either for an underpass of for a bridge over the line . |
| 19 | He describes a ‘ good-enough mother ’ ( i.e. , a mother as good at being a mother as any of us can expect either to have or to be ) as someone who ‘ starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant 's needs , and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely , gradually according to the infant 's growing ability to deal with her failure . ’ |
| 20 | I think and that really is about as much as any of us can say . |
| 21 | A decade or three back , when most of us could visit most countries without a visa , there was little expectation that this would prove a high water mark and that restrictions would steadily increase , but we may not be able to assume that the freedom to dial direct to distant countries will continue to increase : Egypt has cut direct-dial telephone links with Pakistan , Afghanistan , Iraq , Sudan and Iran to make it harder for Moslem militant leaders in exile to communicate with groups at home and organise terrorist attacks , the Al-Akhbar newspaper reports ; it is still possible to call via an operator . |
| 22 | Perhaps , as most of us would assume , it can all be explained by inadequate statistics , faulty experimental design , overenthusiastic interpretation of ambiguous results , or , as I have argued in the case of Ungar 's experiment , misinterpreting the biochemical and pharmacological consequences of stress or other , rather non-specific aspects of behaviour . |
| 23 | The troubled waters of South Africa 's over state have impinged — quite correctly — upon its sporting consciousness for as long as most of us can remember . |
| 24 | We have no objection to the principle of a motion on involvement across Europe , especially following our recent friend 's city 's re-emergence into democracy as both of us can benefit from future E C funds . |