Example sentences of "us it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a heavy serviceable machine and I am not really knocking Wilson because in another situation it would probably do a very good job but for us it is just not a very pleasant tool to be with . |
| 2 | Here , in Britain too , some people try to do that , though for most of us it is n't easy since we have no prosperity . |
| 3 | one crucial thematic differentiation between ‘ genuine art ’ and that offered by the Culture Industry : both raise the issue and the possibility of happiness in their very being , as it were , and neither provides it ; but where one keeps faith with it by negation and suffering , the other assures us it is taking place . |
| 4 | For some of us it is because we have suffered from the emotional manipulations of others . |
| 5 | For us it is a symbol of acceptance , for from that day on Nanny referred to Shanti as ‘ my granddaughter ’ and treated her exactly as she had always done the others . |
| 6 | But if they tell us it is ‘ better ’ to be tall , or British , or artistic , or shop at Harrods , we just might take them seriously — yet such ideas are just as meaningless . |
| 7 | ‘ While a smile brightens up everyone 's looks , scientists also tell us it is good for our health because chemicals are produced which actually cheer us up , ’ said toothbrush makers Oral B , which organised the survey . |
| 8 | To us it is clear that it was the forms of social organisation in which such evidence was carried that gave them this quality and not the intrinsic nature of the evidence itself . |
| 9 | Er , for us it is , yes but |
| 10 | At every stage of the interchurch process we were hearing voices saying to us it is not sufficient that there should be fellowship , agreement , companionship , cooperation at the highest levels but it had to be found at every level , it had to be found at grass roots level . |
| 11 | We have used the term ‘ vernacular ’ in a different way : for us it is a ‘ primitive ’ term roughly synonymous with ‘ real language in use ’ , and it is interpreted on a continuum of relative closeness to , or distance from , the idealized norm , or ( in some cases ) the idealized standard language . |
| 12 | but for us it is an art form of course . |
| 13 | Textbooks should be quoted only if they express an individual opinion , and the lecturer ( qua lecturer ) not at all , When quoting authors , if the author is dead he may be referred to by his surname only , but if he is still with us it is polite to give him a handle — Sir or Prof. or Dr or Mr. As regards judges the customary J. , etc. , should be used irrespective of whether they are alive or dead . |
| 14 | PLAYER : For some of us it is performance , for others , patronage . |
| 15 | With us it is called the problem of consideration . |
| 16 | ‘ For us it is like your Christmas Eve . |
| 17 | For the rest of us it is a commercially ‘ packaged ’ version of the real thing . |
| 18 | But to us it is unacceptable . |
| 19 | None of us it is a matter of extreme regret that they were terrified in the way they claim they were , but that sympathy must not be allowed to cloud your judgement on the issue about whether the police were reasonable . |
| 20 | Make this union as big as John tells us it is |