Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] us in " in BNC.

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1 I have time to discuss only one lexical myth : this is the signpost which points us in the direction of precision .
2 Well did one writer say : ‘ The evidence for the resurrection is the existence of the Church in that spiritual vitality which confronts us in the New Testament . ’
3 I know there are terrible things out there , but that is n't an excuse for giving up on that which sustains us in this life .
4 Death is the removal of all the possibilities which sustain us in our lives .
5 In this development , the world of natural things — the making and conservation of which concerns us in Rural Studies — has been the key to the inspiration which Basil Rocke gave us .
6 It is a crisis of everything which served us in the past but which is no longer tenable today .
7 Failure to define , at any rate in politics , is the principal factor which keeps us in employment .
8 The Leeds average including the 39,106 that attended the QPR game is now 34,104 which keeps us in 4th place .
9 Not unexpectedly , we all learn to filter out data which puts us in a bad light , and we learn to tell our superiors what they want to hear .
10 On Nov. 20 Strauss-Kahn blamed the outcome of the negotiations on the UK 's current presidency of the EC , describing it as " calamitous and claiming that " the British have a way of chairing the Community which puts us in difficulty facing the Americans " .
11 God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully .
12 If we believe , as many difference theorists seem to , that the best way of understanding gender relations is to study children , this saves us from having to address some very difficult practical issues which affect us in the here-and-now .
13 Finally , as if rewarding us for our efforts , Yuri provided us with what was for us the highlight of the day — an impromptu performance ( to a disco beat ) which left us in no doubt at all as to why this tall , handsome athlete is Russia 's leading ballet super-Tsar !
14 For to understand a sentence is to be able to pick out situations which justify us in believing that sentence to be true .
15 As we thawed out so our curling improved , which stood us in good stead when the tour progressed into the curling hotbed regions of Edmonton , Weyburn , Saskatoon and Calgary .
16 What justifies us in attributing heat and cold to material things is our perceiving them to be hot and cold ; and they could still feel hot and cold to us even if we never felt hot or cold ourselves .
17 They involve separating the rule from its instances and asking what justifies us in taking the instances to be instances of that rule .
18 This is what enables us in historical study to bridge the gulf between the present and the past , to enter into the experience and awareness which are opened up for us in the thoughts , beliefs , practices and social customs and institutions of other times and other cultures .
19 Chairman Colin Henderson said : ‘ What struck us in our interview with Lawrence was that he definitely wanted the job and was ready to move North straightaway .
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