Example sentences of "it is [vb pp] [prep] us " in BNC.

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1 The word for ‘ make intercession ’ is the same in Hebrews 7:25 as in Romans 8:26 ; except that in Romans it has a prefix which indicates intensity , or , perhaps , stresses that it is done for us .
2 Amnesty strives to stop rape because , in keeping with our mandate , it is seen by us as ‘ cruel and inhuman ’ ; not because of the social consequences .
3 Please amend the declaration on your Application if you wish to see any report before it is sent to us .
4 ( Please amend the declaration on your Application if you wish to see any report before it is sent to us . )
5 The following , recommended by the Law Society , is now widely used : In consideration of you today completing the purchase of we hereby undertake forthwith to pay over to Building Society the money required to redeem the mortgage/legal charge dated and to forward the redeemed mortgage/legal charge to you as soon as it is received by us from the Building Society .
6 Many of us laugh at prejudice when it is presented to us in someone else .
7 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 .
8 And that was the sort of level of detail to which we thought we might need to go in those districts where it is demonstrated to us , of the district do need to be considered differently .
9 We can all be too clever by half , and it is wiser to take the gospel story as it is revealed to us and presented throughout the whole of the sacred text of scripture .
10 ‘ We have explained how we would run the competition if it is awarded to us and proposed June 1995 as the ideal date .
11 Your consent is required before we can apply for a report and you may see the report before it is returned to us .
12 Your consent is required before we apply for a report and you may see the report before it is returned to us .
13 Send not to know by whom the trigger is squeezed , it is squeezed by us all .
14 It is agreed between us that in connection with the preparation and despatch of the Memorandum ( and the handling of the prospective sale proceeds envisaged by the memorandum ) , the proper and reasonable costs of KPMG and [ lawyer ] will be borne by the shareholders pro rata to their respective shareholdings .
15 It was noted that the rising of the Nile occurred when the last star to appear on the horizon , before dawn obscures all stars , was the dog star Sothis , or Sirius as it is known to us .
16 This ‘ cleanness ’ was not an exclusively English taste ( even if it is elaborated for us in the poems of an exceptional writer ) , for Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight is outstandingly ‘ French ’ among the English romances and gives a superbly articulate voice to international courtly values at a time when art-historians begin to speak of an International Style in the visual arts .
17 We do n't have to ask our husbands for the money , we know it is paid to us because we have the day-to-day responsibility for our children .
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