Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [vb -s] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you 'll see that in that apology Milton appears to be conscious of the very point that I am trying to make , that is to say it might be considered out of place in this prose work to speak of myself in direct factual terms , although a poet — a poet intending to write of things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme — a poet soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , in other words where we ca n't or are n't really invited to make out his individual identity very clearly because it is his role as poet that concerns us , there he clearly feels it would be proper . |
| 2 | Better performance in 1993 must be everybody 's objective and despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that surrounds us there has been plenty happening in our Division in 1992 to put us in good shape for the challenge of 1993 . |
| 3 | If we carefully analyse the frequencies contained within speech it is possible to devise a system of rules that allows us to create any given sound from its basic frequencies . |
| 4 | Is it the fear of wearing in that stout new pair of shoes that keeps us in our old battered brogues ? |
| 5 | The rest of the distant landscape provides a frame of reference that enables us to make fairly accurate judgments of their size . |
| 6 | We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents . |
| 7 | This arrangement represented ‘ the same top-down white patriarchal model of leadership that surrounds us in our daily life in capitalist society and most left-wing organizations in this country . |
| 8 | Mr Bush accepted the Pentagon proposal even though he told the United Nations that he believed ‘ we can achieve the level of verification that gives us confidence to go forward with this ban ’ . |
| 9 | That thread is the word of God that guides us in our climb to God . |
| 10 | But then it is a small step to begin thinking of ( 18 ) as very similar to ( 20 ) , and thus Containing demonstrative or indexical elements : ( 20 ) That man ( ( the speaker indicates the man drinking champagne ) ) is Lord Godolphin And so it begins to look as if definite referring expressions may in general be used either in speaker reference or in semantic ( or attributive ) reference , and it is only the context of use that tells us which way to understand them ( Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 11 | It is the Spirit of Christ that unites us with Christ : so much so that Paul can say ‘ If any man does not have the Spirit of Christ , he does not belong to Christ ’ ( Rom. 8:9 ) . |
| 12 | Hobhouse 's evolutionary method was , however , also reminiscent of Comte since he argued that it was the growing domination of mind over the conditions of life that enables us to appreciate the importance of the collective framework of society . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I leave government , I expect to work … for quality art , for less hate and for a generosity of spirit that allows us to live with our differences in real community ’ . |
| 15 | Short-term memory is a temporary store of information and often it is irrelevant to convert the information into a long-term memory , the type of memory that enables us to recall events years later . |
| 16 | It 's the kind of angle that makes us look at the space of the room that 's being photographed and the arrangement of objects in the room rather than the subjective viewpoint of the picture taker — recalling the very beginnings of photography when it was a simple recording device , and before it was considered a means of expression , when it sometimes did n't strive to imitate painting . |
| 17 | In modern times , we have effectively removed the third possibility above by redefining the goal of science : our aim is to formulate a set of laws that enables us to predict events only up to the limit set by the uncertainty principle . |
| 18 | According to this definition , time has no substantive existence but is a mental concept or means of measurement — a point of view that strikes us today as being remarkably modern . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Love is a strange force like gravity that holds us together in the transcendent and will suffer no parting . |
| 21 | Now , however , consider what happens if we take pragmatics to be the study of the contribution of context to language understanding : suppose normally an aunt gives her nephew T , but on an occasion switches to V , then in order to predict the intended ironic or angry meaning , a pragmatic theory must have available the detailed recipe for usage that tells us that V is not the normal usage , and thus not to be taken at face value . |
| 22 | It is our communion with God that enables us to have empathy , kindness , intimacy and identification with others , which flow forth from us like rivers in an oasis . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Rather than simply consuming pop ( which makes clever little references to its commodity status ) we should look to music that consumes US . |
| 25 | Often the thing about others that makes us angry is a fault we have in ourselves . |