Example sentences of "what [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |
| 2 | It is accepted that what separates us from the other creatures sharing our planet is our capacity to think . |
| 3 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They involve separating the rule from its instances and asking what justifies us in taking the instances to be instances of that rule . |
| 6 | It 's what gets us through the day . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What distinguishes us from the rest of the industry is that we do research to prove the claims we make , ’ he says . |
| 8 | What distinguishes us from Saddam is our superior , perhaps supreme , ability to screen out the death and mutilation . |
| 9 | Likewise religion corresponds to Truth ; it is what binds us to the Truth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And if we look at the patristic understanding of atonement , what hits us with startling freshness is that the Divine Drama is alive and pulsating with the tension and conflict of the Great Battle . |
| 13 | What stops us from using it ? |
| 14 | What stops us from going for it , nothing stops us from going for it . |