Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [vb infin] us [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This coincided , however , with an increasing prevalence of the conditions and institutions which should lead us to expect the reporting and recording of offences to grow in proportion to the actual occurrence of victimization . |
| 2 | All of which might prompt us to ask the question , what is the real connection between gender and sex ? |
| 3 | But are there things nearer home , in our own diocese , which might help us to understand the murder of a priest ? ’ |
| 4 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 5 | Victor Lewis-Smith killed it , in one of his Time Out columns , with a heartfelt appeal for a gadget which would enable us to break the last tiny piece of poppadam into two equal pieces . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not honestly see that a system which would require us to compromise the morning after the election is really so morally inferior to a system which has already obliged us to compromise our policies two years before polling day . ’ |
| 7 | What this shows is that there is no simple relationship between domains , situations , generations or language preferences which will enable us to explain the linguistic behaviour of young British-born Caribbeans in London . |
| 8 | ‘ The objective of the project is to upgrade the refuelling plant to improve operating efficiency and to make modifications which will allow us to refuel the reactors on load by spring 1994 ’ . |
| 9 | An equivalent medical prognosis would be pessimistic to say the least , and it is time now to explore alternatives which will allow us to approach the 21st Century with confidence instead of indecision and fear . |
| 10 | The art of counterfactual analysis consists in formulating probable hypothetical claims which will help us to disentangle the roles played by disparate variables , and this requires a systematic view of the kinds of factors which might plausibly have been different . |
| 11 | we call on WACC-AR to take practical steps which will help us realise the implementation of all these recommendations in our continent . |
| 12 | Mr Beck added : ‘ We are in need of cash which will help us to link the register to those in other parts of the world , including the United States . ’ |
| 13 | Professor Bruce Ponder , of the CRC Human Cancer Genetics Group at Cambridge and chairman of the committee which co-ordinated the study , said : ‘ This is another piece in the jigsaw which will help us understand the biology of two cancers which currently affect tens of thousands of women in this country and claim the lives of 20,000 every year . ’ |
| 14 | As this indicates , most are somewhat one-sided and limited in scope , and we need to move towards a synthesis which can enable us to grasp the most significant relationships and processes involved in the local politics of an increasingly diversified , and ‘ restructured ’ , Britain . |