Example sentences of "to us the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his attempts to understand the paths taken by projectiles and falling bodies , he had ‘ opened to us the gate of natural philosophy universal , which is the knowledge of the nature of motion ’ . |
| 2 | His eyes are pinpoints , surely the smallest in any Modigliani portrait , as if to reveal to us the man 's utter lack of vision . |
| 3 | Traditionally at least , horns convey to us the notion of the cuckold — the unfortunate , unmanly husband whose wife 's unsated sexual passion finds its outlets elsewhere . |
| 4 | Open to us the door of your eyes . |
| 5 | But these are some of the things , faith opens to us the door to every blessing that is ours in Christ . |
| 6 | I myself had never witnessed a stoning , but Omar had done so on three occasions and had taken great delight in describing to us the fate that awaited weak women who did not carefully guard their honour which was so prized by their men . |
| 7 | Well I think , probably ought to make it clear of course that we wo n't have available to us the greenbelt local plan enquiry , so |
| 8 | The chef , Master Worker Chang , is a caricature of a Chinese chef , very large and fat , who is very solicitous for our welfare , and comes in and explains to us the dishes in a sort of Chinese version of Hyman Kaplan 's English . |
| 9 | ‘ If he 'd give a free-kick to us the Blackburn crowd would n't have complained . |
| 10 | He accepts it only because of what he calls ‘ an insuperable logical difficulty ’ : position is not a quality , so a sensation can convey to us the position of a stimulus only by virtue of our ability to interpret something about it as meaning a certain position . |
| 11 | Once they come to us the packaging has disappeared and so we ca n't sell it . |
| 12 | But I mean what the pay relative to us the cost of living and everything else , I do n't know . |
| 13 | To us the benefits , apart from his obvious public profile and his very great technical knowledge , were his ready association with the problems and the thought processes of smaller and medium-sized clients which are particularly our market place . |
| 14 | I do not propose that we enter new markets at this stage , but rather that we seek strategic alliances with practices that offer professional services that we do not , and can bring to us the benefits of their expertise and client base on a reciprocal basis . |
| 15 | We must be cautious , though , in making the assumption that such words as ‘ king ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ Messiah ’ still convey to us the meaning which they had at the time and in the world of Jesus . |
| 16 | God has a way on retreats such as this of bringing home to us the challenge of a first-order question : ‘ Do you love me in the way Mary loved me and allowed herself to be used for my mission ? ’ |
| 17 | To us the flood of romantic love should be searched for and found before marriage . |
| 18 | On the screen Derek Carlisle said , ‘ Our foreign affairs correspondent , Trevor Newsom , is now in the studio on Luctia , ready to explain to us the background to today 's decisions by the Council of the Galaxy . ’ |
| 19 | Because of socialisation it is only rarely that we have to puzzle out a meaning for an action which we come across in our normal social encounters — most actions seem perfectly intelligible to us the moment they occur — because we have learnt the rules by which others are playing the ‘ game ’ . |
| 20 | I believe that he has , in a single word , delivered to us the votes of the majority of general practitioners in the country , for which I am most grateful . |
| 21 | First , there is a general lack of appreciation of just how critical to us the Earth 's biological resources are . |
| 22 | Last year 's assembly remitted to us the task of working out the consequences for the service known as confirmation if children are admitted to the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |