Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any behaviour that causes us potential damage will be unacceptable . |
| 2 | Medicine is a powerful system of knowledge , and one that affects us all ; it is therefore illuminating to find that within modern medical thought these fragments continue to be influential . |
| 3 | This element of anticipation of death is therefore one that affects us all if the circumstances warrant it or seem to do so . |
| 4 | It is a curse that affects us all . |
| 5 | THE election of a new American president is an event that affects us all . |
| 6 | The general feeling was that Johnson was a cheat , athletics is a rotten game , at least at top level , and thank God for the rugby spirit that keeps us pure . |
| 7 | Or it could be the computer in the corner that keeps us awake . |
| 8 | I said yeah well that keeps us awake as well ! |
| 9 | On page 13 , however , STUART ‘ I 'm still taking Valium ’ MACONIE recounts the full horror of 1988 , the pivotal Reading that lead to the wonderment that awaits us this weekend . |
| 10 | They really do try to contact the invisible ‘ spirit world ’ that surrounds us all . |
| 11 | Lucidly , for instance , he explains how to counteract the ‘ around the next corner ’ syndrome which bugs all painter-travellers ; that will o' the wisp that tempts us all to go on ad infinitum , seeking the ‘ perfect ’ view , leaving us dispirited and fruitless . |
| 12 | The thing that stirs us more than anything is war in defence of our nation . |
| 13 | Realistically the championship was never quite on the agenda this year , but setting up a system that gives us regular qualification for Europe and the occasional cup run/win will be satisfactory IMO . |
| 14 | Ed I 've got some news for ya , there 's actually need every scrap of help we can get right now and anything that comes out of Europe that gives us that assistance needs our support . |
| 15 | On operating systems we wanted to be as truly hardware independent as we can , so we have chosen to operate potentially under any Posix-compliant operating system , so that gives us all the flavours or brands of Unix and a number of proprietary mid-range operating systems which are achieving Posix compliance as time goes by . |
| 16 | But of the two jubilees it is the one that gives us more to ponder . |
| 17 | ‘ But within the last few days we have received a letter from our insurance assessor that gives us fresh hope . |
| 18 | so that gives us this and so if I said erm and that 's a all right we 'll leave that as twelve X squared minus one . |
| 19 | If we see something in others that makes us angry , if they are causing hurt or pain , then our first task is to look at ourselves . |
| 20 | Often the thing about others that makes us angry is a fault we have in ourselves . |
| 21 | It is this that makes us more advanced . |
| 22 | We would be pretty uninteresting if we all behaved as adults all of the time , and it is our mix of behaviours as adult , child and parent that makes us interesting and unique . |
| 23 | ‘ The longevity of these two companies is something that makes us special , ’ says Anderson . |
| 24 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 25 | It is rising so high that makes us afraid , he thought , lest we fall or are cast down . |
| 26 | Extrinsic ageing stems from repeated or persistent injury to the body tissues leading to a kind of degeneration that makes us older than our years . |
| 27 | It is his word that makes us aware of our condition . |
| 28 | It is his word that makes us aware that Jesus Christ came and died for us , that God loves us . |
| 29 | It 's the mediocre that drags us all down to a common denominator ; … that deprives us of judgement ; … that particularly deprives us of a sense of humour . |
| 30 | In this tour through the modern world the way we run things comes to seem ever more absurd , a house of cards built upon endless bureaucracy — a paper chase that leaves us all working frantically to keep a worse quality of life . |