Example sentences of "is [verb] to us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not talking here about natural feelings , but a depth of desire which is given to us by God . |
| 2 | Policemen immediately that that is given to us by the Home Office . |
| 3 | He was convinced that , in the words of the Barmen Declaration which he with others drafted in May 1934 in opposition to the German Christians , ‘ Jesus Christ as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture is the one Word of God , which we have to hear , and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death . ’ |
| 4 | Lamarck is presented to us as a man misunderstood , misrepresented , undeservedly neglected and as the subject of calumnies that made him appear as ‘ the enemy of religion and teleology , even as a mechanistic materialist ’ . |
| 5 | Haunted by the fear that perhaps man is not the superior species , we seek salvation and find it because the animal kingdom is presented to us as a world of such wonder and magical beauty that we can believe in God 's kingdom and therefore our divine right to rule . |
| 6 | We identify a stretch of language as a text partly because it is presented to us as a text , and we therefore do our utmost to make sense of it as a unit , and partly because we perceive connections within and among its sentences . |
| 7 | If there were not this evidence that at this point he is only hazily in command of what he is doing , we might ask — though to no purpose , I think — whether Eleanor 's fiddling of her uncle into the see of Canterbury is presented to us for our approval , or the reverse . |
| 8 | Many of us laugh at prejudice when it is presented to us in someone else . |
| 9 | This is so contrary to our general assumptions ( namely that the Holy Spirit , however vaguely we conceive of him , is an internal gift for the faithful , appropriate only to be mentioned in church ) that it is important for us to see the crucial link between the Spirit and mission which is presented to us in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 10 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 11 | The Creator is revealed to us as a rational , moral , feeling person , capable of making choices . |
| 12 | The former is revealed to us by our senses , but these are deceptive . |
| 13 | The latter is revealed to us by reason and is the only true mode of existence . |
| 14 | All this is a matter of statistics and arid generalities : but what the transformation of these local heaths meant to those who had grown up near them and upon them , what the change meant in detail , is revealed to us in the poetry of John Clare , who was born in 1793 on the edge of the heath country of northern Northamptonshire . |
| 15 | Jesus , the Christ , is the one who has come through the water of his baptism , through the blood of his cross , and is mediated to us through the Holy Spirit . |
| 16 | When low down it seems to flash various colours , because its light is coming to us through a thick layer of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 17 | We try to listen to the Bible , hearing what God is saying to us through it . |
| 18 | In a similar way the Desert Fathers , whose ascetical practices frequently seem to pass into the range of farce , are regarded at least with affection and more often with deep admiration , partly of course because of the delightful anecdotery that has collected around them , and is known to us through the works of writers like Helen Waddell . |
| 19 | Modernism is described to us with references to a neat sequence of male coteries who obviously made full use of the opportunity for dialogue and debate . |