Example sentences of "to us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the meeting of intellectual endeavour and the Wanderlust , which John of Salisbury so clearly represents , is at least a symbol to us of the channels these influences found . |
| 2 | But the worst silence of all is when we take it for granted that they know how much they are still appreciated and that the calloused hands or fingers are symbols to us of the love and caring poured into our lives . |
| 3 | Positively , the theory asserts that there is something about the sensation which correlates with the stimulation being at a certain point , and which can thus , in time , become a sign to us of the stimulation being at that point . |
| 4 | The knowledge that we now have about fertilization and development of the human ovum speaks to us of the miracle of our existence . |
| 5 | It is a timely reminder to us of the true value and cost of ’ rediscovered ’ writers , and a challenge to Black women writers , not just in the USA , but throughout the Black Diaspora to get our act together and chronicle our lives and our times for ourselves . |
| 6 | Chairman I have an amendment to that motion , because , because I believe it 's important that we start to identify a lot of councils publish at the end of the year for public consumption a list of the allowances drawn by members , and I think that would be very useful and I would make , as an amendment , I would , would add to the proposal put by Mr that we call for a report to be pu er , to be presented to us of the amounts of allowances drawn by members , each member |
| 7 | Having said that , this place has been made ‘ valid through prayer ’ and can be seen as a sacrament of God 's coming to us through the demands of human life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That master would seem to have been Taglioni , now filtered to us through the Bournonville version . |
| 10 | He reveals him to us through the operas , which ‘ lay at the core of Mozart 's life as a thinking artist ’ and on which Mr Till has worked as a producer . |
| 11 | It is estimated that as much as 98% of dioxin intake by humans comes to us through the food chain , notably meat , milk , fish and eggs . |
| 12 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |
| 13 | It is therefore an immensely energetic , hopeful verb — and because our states of mind are influenced , without our conscious knowledge , by the language that surrounds us , this energy and hope is ‘ fed ’ to us through the verb . |
| 14 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
| 15 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 16 | The world would sound very strange to us through the ears of a frog , for we would hear the calls of other frogs , the noises made by its predators , and little else . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Family and kinship relations in an Essex village are laid open to us through the diary . |
| 19 | Sheriff Irvine Smith has again displayed to us through the cases themselves and through his own deft and inhumane commentary , the continuing mores of the Scottish nation . |
| 20 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 21 | Mrs passing a message to us through the time planner like that |
| 22 | ‘ Why could not an entity that had no extension be visible to us under the appearance of … extension ? ’ |
| 23 | I had become engaged to Leading Seaman Arthur Saunders RNVR who was serving in HMS Reading , a fourstacker loaned to us under the lease-lend arrangements . |
| 24 | This contact may take place in the intercourse of the classroom , the playground , the home and the outer world , or solely in the inner world of thought and feeling , through the personal records of action and experience known to us under the form of literature . |
| 25 | Moreover , goals relate to situations , so arousal may be as much situational as internal ; we may be aroused by the presence of others and the knowledge that other people are evaluating us , thereby linking goals or values important to us to the situation in which we find ourselves . |
| 26 | If one accepts such a theory , then it gives a reason to all that happens to us during the course of our lives . |
| 27 | It had been hammered home to us during the previous winter . |
| 28 | This was vividly brought home to us during the filming of Supersense . |
| 29 | Our decision to give the assessors that responsibility reflects the views put to us during the consultation which persuaded us that they were best placed to undertake the work and to do the job well within the timetable allowed . |
| 30 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |