Example sentences of "among us [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pointed out that several seemingly inconsequential factors can combine to create a change that even the most cloth-eared among us would notice . |
| 2 | The more chauvinistic among us might place the marker in the calendar for 4th August of the same year when Great Britain entered the war against the central powers , or two years later at dawn on the 1st July 1916 , when the opening of the Battle of the Somme destroyed the lives or the illusions of a generation of British youth . |
| 3 | ( " The war brides among us must labour on till the boys come home " . ) " |
| 4 | The lazy among us will always claim that it is more difficult to learn as you get older . |
| 5 | Classical scholars among us will all , as students , have stood in awe of our seniors who , given a rare Greek word , could pluck out of their memories the ten contexts in different classical authors in which it was used . |
| 6 | We are told the way in which MPs have voted on certain controversial cross-party issues such as abortion and hanging ; we are given the names of those to whom we must say farewell and those we should welcome , but no details whatsoever as to the make up the corps of MPs ' secretaries , that body of sirens from whom the more susceptible among us should be protected . |
| 7 | And as for Ronald Reagan , who among us can forget the words that so blew our minds on ‘ The Wit And Wisdom Of Ronald Reagan ’ album , a release which made Stiff 's Magic offshoot a legendary label overnight ? |
| 8 | Getting on with the neighbours is something the lucky ones among us can take for granted . |
| 9 | The enthusiastic among us could sit with out scorebooks , others could sit and listen to the expert commenting of two gentlemen sadly no longer with us , John Arlott and Jim Laker . |