Example sentences of "which [vb -s] us [prep] [art] " 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 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |
| 3 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | A study published by Age Concern Scotland concluded : ‘ Ageism leads to a perception of old age as an affliction or disease which turns us into a special kind of being which is not fully human . ’ |
| 6 | It is that , more than the power of abstract reasoning , which elevates us above the kine and the denizens of the deep . |
| 7 | This last drawing exercise is a summary of the simple process of thinking which leads us into a deeper appreciation of how we have come to be what we are . |
| 8 | Alternatively , it may be a prerequisite for the evolutionary development of intelligence — which leads us to the premonition that , in a few billion years time , there may be intelligent lugworms stalking the Earth . |
| 9 | He has a vision of it as a vehicle which prepares us for the presence of God . ’ |
| 10 | While it is true that , in most of them , a party with 10 per cent of the popular vote holds 100 per cent of the power , this is surely preferable to our present system , which condemns us to a lifetime of minority rule . |
| 11 | I propose that we reject the central image of ourselves as victims and install instead an alternative conception which sees us as an active force working in many different ways for our freedom from racial subordination . |
| 12 | It is this perspective which links us to the work of Goffman , Harre and Giddens . |
| 13 | There is an ‘ Essential ’ Chamber Music series with the peerless performances , and an ‘ Enterprise ’ collection which takes us into the worlds of Szymanowski , Berio , Ligeti , Schoenberg , Poulenc , Franz Schmidt , Stravinsky and others . |
| 14 | Again after the middle ten lines there is another break which takes us into the last section of the poem with the words ‘ at last ’ . |
| 15 | His first major novel since 1983 , a quest which takes us through the heart of European thought in search of the elusive doctor . |
| 16 | FRESH GARBAGE from Frank Zappa 's bulging tape archive which takes us on a trip to the heart of greasy rock ‘ n ’ roll in the company of his much-maligned Flo & Eddie ensemble . |
| 17 | The kind of reasoning that we have discussed , which takes us from a finite list of singular statements to the justification of a universal statement , which takes us from some to all , is called inductive reasoning and the process is called induction . |
| 18 | That is the dynamic , historical revelation of the Father 's love , which draws us into the community of faith and sets us to work in the service of the kingdom . |
| 19 | There are sections on Islay in many of the piloting and sailing directions for Scotland , and specialist publications about the geology and the minerals , which were published in the 19th century , none of which tells us about the inhabitants . |
| 20 | There are sections on Islay in many of the piloting and sailing directions for Scotland , and specialist publications about the geology and the minerals , which were published in the 19th century , none of which tells us about the inhabitants . |
| 21 | Many things are told to the reader throughout the novel through conversation or through reading something such as the reading of the tombstone which tells us of the death of Pip 's parents . |
| 22 | This time it is not a natural parting of the ways like leaving school that has happened ; rather , an unexpected factor , for example some form of incurable disease or sudden death through illness or accident has occurred , which propels us into a significant loss that we are not prepared for . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Maybe part of the daisy 's popularity lies in its shape , a yellow disk fringed with white petals ( correctly ray-florets ) , a simple arrangement which reminds us of the sun . |
| 26 | Much later in the books of Samuel we find another story concerning the ark which reminds us of the battle with the Philistines . |
| 27 | They often already occupied formal roles in the area — doctors , priests , postmistresses or teachers , which reminds us of the ways in which informal and formal roles and structures interact . |
| 28 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 29 | It may seem that if we succeed in adapting our values to such disturbances instead of losing them altogether , it is because we still retain some vestige of a Christian and liberal moral tradition a memory of ‘ Do unto others … ’ at the roots of social habit , which saves us from the collapse into competing egoisms into which deepening conflicts are perpetually driving us . |
| 30 | ‘ So here we are , three years on , with little apparent progress and a buck-passing to the university , which leaves us with a potentially expensive and fiercely unwanted situation , ’ said Sir David . |