Example sentences of "[is] not [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | This simile of the mustard seed is not to call us to some great Cecil B Demille-like ambition . |
2 | But Cooper 's figures also possess a larger than life boldness due not so much to childlike innocence but to the kind of confidence we imagine Eve and Adam had before the Fall , However , she is not confronting us with an easily gained optimism nor do her disembodied heads , upturned women and mild impassive eyes really evoke a vision of dream . |
3 | Paul is not asking us to be passive . |
4 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
5 | It 's not to make us into some spiritual superstars , like some great leader of the past or present . |