Example sentences of "possible for us " in BNC.

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1 I only mean to preface this discussion of cultural difference with an awkward question : in the world we have , is it possible for us — any of us — not to have at least some inferior others ?
2 The Anglo-American special relationship , on the other hand , is as alive as ever , and has made it possible for us to buy advanced US weapon systems like Polaris and Trident on very favourable terms .
3 By a process of ‘ abstraction ’ , moreover , it was possible for these general notions to be ‘ impressed ’ on our minds or intellects , thus making it possible for us to think in terms of them .
4 Though all things that exist in the extra-mental world are particulars and singular , it is nevertheless possible for us to form essentially general or abstract ideas .
5 If we know how horses communicate , it not only makes it easier for us to understand them and look after them , but it also makes it possible for us to communicate with them more satisfactorily .
6 He is the only person who can make it possible for us to become ourselves — to become a true person in an impersonal world .
7 In certain cases , the Government will guarantee most of a loan , which makes it possible for us to lend in circumstances where we would ordinarily not do so .
8 It is possible for us to image a society of saints in which no one committed what we see as crimes , in which everyone behaved in an impeccable manner .
9 ‘ Is it possible for us to hire a shepherd at Martinmas ? ’
10 This is made possible for us by means of sacrifice , devotion and the service of others .
11 Non-monogamy may be less possible for us , and we may stay in relationships longer than we should because we are scared of not being able to find a replacement .
12 As Jung pointed out , it is necessary for us to have a Shadow , since we can not be everything that it would be possible for us to be .
13 It is possible for us to do it — we carried out one test in France — but it is very expensive . ’
14 But because of his love for us , in the person of Jesus Christ , redemption is made possible for us all .
15 It was only possible for us to teach four girls and five teachers .
16 Here naturalism seems to slip back in , at least in the attempt to explain how knowledge is possible for us .
17 If , therefore , it is difficult at this stage for us to establish with any certainty general patterns of cause and effect between ‘ industrialization ’ and the relatively autonomous conjugal family , it may be possible for us to argue that there is at least a degree of fit , a congruence , between these two elements .
18 Women in the community need to find out what is possible for us as a prerequisite to identifying what is not available and what we would like to see .
19 We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest . ’
20 Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true .
21 It is , obviously , not possible for us in a textbook to permit you to have the experience of everyday discourse in what Stenning ( 1978 ) calls a ‘ normal context ’ , where the hearer is part of the context and then experiences the text .
22 In the future , it might be possible for us to reset our body clock to the new time zone quickly , by taking a pill containing melatonin at the appropriate time of day .
23 She put us back on our feet and made it possible for us to live again .
24 It is clearly necessary to cater for all the languages in the group and ‘ double ’ resourcing or ‘ triple ’ or even more , has been possible for us with Nuffield Foundation funding , but it is far from being seen as an obvious need by those who hold the State sector purse strings , for example !
25 And it is not possible for us to know anything at all about him unless he is generous enough to disclose himself Another book in this series has tackled the question of revelation ; suffice it to say at this point that without revelation we can not say anything about the Lord who is Spirit .
26 ‘ No … no , I do n't want to buy them … it was just … that is , would it be possible for us to see them ? ’
27 Close to the date , some of our members were chatting to Llangollen Railway member Peter Cutler , and he suggested that it might be possible for us to see the work on the next extension , to Glyndyfrdwy .
28 Is it possible for us to provide facilities , skills and help from the Atomic Energy Authority to help them with that difficult problem ?
29 Will my hon. Friend pass to the National Audit Office the thanks of Parliament for its series of reports and ask whether it would be possible for us to have them at a time when Parliament is likely to be sitting rather than at one minute to midnight for the benefit of the press ?
30 Would it be possible for us to send him a copy of 4 Gardens as a gesture of goodwill ?
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