Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 2 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 3 | By 35 , our faces have undergone structural changes , so that the hair-styles which suited us throughout our 20s may suddenly seem severe and make us look older . |
| 4 | We will find ourselves missing golden opportunities , getting ourselves involved in time-consuming , time-wasting activities which distract us from our main goals . |
| 5 | The event can , of course , be a happy one and create openings which allow us to ‘ break the mould ’ of earlier restrictions . |
| 6 | This is the case for the English king 's financial archives which provide us with much information on the sums collected , how they were spent , and the organisation which lay behind that expenditure . |
| 7 | We have read the various articles which have appeared in the Press over the last few days which accuse us of cheating in the recent Test series against England . |
| 8 | Death is the removal of all the possibilities which sustain us in our lives . |
| 9 | By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right . |
| 10 | The course content includes : exploring fantasy , sexual response , body image , and a look at some of the underlying feelings which prevent us from reaching our sexual potential . |
| 11 | We find our arts opportunities restricted at all levels , from lack of physical access to arts facilities and regulations which bar us from training courses , to our invisibility and misrepresentation in the images produced and promoted . |
| 12 | it is difficult to measure precisely the influence of factors by isolating them in experiments and , even if we could , there may be ethical problems which prevent us from doing so |
| 13 | I John gives several other ways which enable us to be confident of our new status . |
| 14 | Indeed it is at once the changing social history and the complex sociology of the changing institutions and relations which take us beyond these formulas to the possibility of more precise analysis . |
| 15 | For to understand a sentence is to be able to pick out situations which justify us in believing that sentence to be true . |
| 16 | Mr Chairman , in his er , video to us , er drew attention to the , both the external and internal challenges which face us at the present time . |
| 17 | If we are indeed a unique species then many of the behaviours which differentiate us from other animals are likely to be due to our genetic make-up rather than to cultural conditioning ; but the difficulty is to know just what these animal-human characteristics might be . |
| 18 | Finally , there are underlying semantic connections which allow us to ‘ make sense ’ of a text as a unit of meaning ; these are dealt with under the heading of coherence and |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | None of this excuses their behaviour , of course , but this is an unusually human account of an all-too-human encounter in the streets which reminds us of a certain constancy of human motive , and of conflicts built around the human meanings that are attached to the social realities of class , physical appearance and territory . |
| 21 | The rationing of food and of clothes , the air raid warnings which sent us into shelters , the trains which ran late and were always overcrowded , these things became an accepted part of life . |
| 22 | Back to the beginning , and the archery shafts which led us into carbon tubes and the generation of so many new designs for steerable aerobatic kites . |
| 23 | The question , however , is whether II Maccabees — does not present a gross simplification of events which prompts us to misleading analogies . |