Example sentences of "is [vb pp] for us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ ; God has given himself to be understood in our terms and on our level ; and even in these terms and on that level it is the reality of God that is given for us to understand . |
| 2 | ‘ Our idea of what belongs to the realm of reality is given for us in the concepts which we use . ’ |
| 3 | Now it 's a system you go through if you break the law , you know we have an education system which is organised for us by our local community who builds the school , who runs the school , who 's on the governors of those schools . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is only when the barbarian reduces the palace to a heap of stones in the desert and slaughters all the inhabitants , that the record of art and thought and everyday life is preserved for us . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Surely all that is required for us to make a start is that there should be sentences whose meaning is more nearly confined to what is immediately available to us , not that there be sentences whose meaning can be completely given in terms of their assent conditions . |