Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have begun to measure these trees , noting characteristics that give us clues to their genetic relationships : these trees , growing under plantation conditions , will eventually tell us whether we really have collected new genes useful to farmers who grow cocoa . |
| 2 | Steven continues : ‘ There 's a complete balancing out of all the different musical influences which enables us to write songs that make us sound like no-one else . |
| 3 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 4 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 5 | For the Stones , satisfaction was the goal : everything would be all ALL RIGHT if we shed the inhibitions that held us back and down . |
| 6 | The madness of all this is constantly illustrated by a jumbled host of fragmentary images that surround us , of body hair and smells and leakings , of panty liners , bikini lines and cellulite . |
| 7 | The mind 's gardens are composed of images that move us emotionally . |
| 8 | They are experiencing what women have always known — that the life-sustaining relationships that enable us to grit our teeth and pick our way through the mess made by men , to endure and to survive , are those we share with other women : our mothers , our sisters , our neighbours and friends . |
| 9 | It was only in the late eighteenth century that spelling became standardised in a way that we would recognise today , and as late as 1900 you can read variant words that surprise us rather — shew for show , for example . |
| 10 | Pictures that tells us our Royals ca n't bear to be together … |
| 11 | However , of all the confusions that confront us the rumours alleging that the Hooligan gangs were armed with guns are particularly difficult to unravel , or to state in any balanced way . |
| 12 | For example , Wittgenstein ( 1953 : 132 ) warns that ‘ the confusions that occupy us arise when language is like an engine idling , not when it is doing work ’ . |
| 13 | We abandon the support of formal steps that move us out of that grief back into loving life . |
| 14 | And then when we take x-rays that checks us to make sure that we 're not getting any radiation you see . |
| 15 | We shall , of course , send a copy of our final report to all institutions that return us a completed questionnaire . |
| 16 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 17 | When we escape from the physical and the chains that bind us , we see the eternal and infinite being within us , then suddenly the mirror lake shivers and the images are stilled in frozen crystals . |
| 18 | We can learn to develop our personal power through identifying the resistance we have to using certain types of behaviour and learning skills that make us more adaptable . |
| 19 | The dazzling reality of God 's happiness can only become a living experience in our lives when we discover the spiritual disciplines that keep us close to God . |
| 20 | I would like to suggest that all activities that take us outside the practical business of living ( sacred worship , carnivals , listening to music and reading a novel , etc. , etc. ) can be seen as either subsumed under play or as extensions of it . |
| 21 | It was proving to be an ideal choice of holiday with a programme of free activities that gave us an easy opportunity to make friends with the guests form other nations who gave the Club such a cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 22 | We need more projects that bring us together . |
| 23 | The 12 hours that shook us all |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 26 | In addition to the firearms that tell us about and the door opener , was any other equipment issued to the officers ? |
| 27 | Just to give you an idea of the order of magnitude we are talking about , the number of generations that separate us from our earliest ancestors is certainly measured in the thousands of millions . |
| 28 | Government has a responsibility , as well , to ensure that it promotes the common moral values that bind us together as a Nation . |
| 29 | There is a strand of social theory which says that society is defined by its transgressors , that we know the civilised values that bind us together only through their breach , which we call crime . |
| 30 | There are , however , some simple rules that enable us to deduce the symmetry of a vibration from the band envelope of the corresponding IR or Raman band , even at rather limited resolution , where the 2B spacing of components of P and R branches , for instance , is not resolved . |