Example sentences of "is [adj] for us [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is ungracious for us to grumble about a creaking chair or a rattling shutter , as happened recently . |
| 32 | This is so contrary to our general assumptions ( namely that the Holy Spirit , however vaguely we conceive of him , is an internal gift for the faithful , appropriate only to be mentioned in church ) that it is important for us to see the crucial link between the Spirit and mission which is presented to us in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 33 | However he added : ‘ It is important for us to go on keeping cool and keeping calm , as we will . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ It is important for us to go on keeping cool and keeping calm , as we will , ’ he added . |
| 35 | However , it is important for us to remember that we still do n't really understand how this recoding is done by the brain . |
| 36 | ‘ It is important for us to pick up something on our visits to Bristol and Tranmere . ’ |
| 37 | Whatever the form power takes or the extent to which conflict exists , it is important for us to recognise their existence within organisations . |
| 38 | ‘ It is important for us to have the six players who were involved in the Test series against Australia four years ago , plus Peter Winterbottom , who actually played all four Tests here in 1983 . |
| 39 | As the children complete their Primary School education it is important for us to look to the continuity of their education into the Senior School , particularly in relation to the 5–14 Programme and to their personal adjustment . |
| 40 | It is important for us to understand , therefore , that what was going on in schools in the 1920s , '30s , '40s and '50s paled into insignificance by the side of community drama . |
| 41 | It is important for us to keep in touch with the Palestinians . |
| 42 | It is important for us to consider whether it contains principles which are of value for us today . |
| 43 | However , against the demagoguery of the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness , it is important for us to make it clear that we do not intend creating unemployment through a change of policy , which means a more peaceful role for our Government . |
| 44 | It is unwise for us to become close because I can not afford to entertain you in the style to which you are accustomed . ’ |
| 45 | It is essential for us to improve the funeral profession 's awareness of the benefits of embalming and I would urge that the Members of this Institute , through the offices of public relations continue to provide platforms to promote the Science of Embalming . |
| 46 | ‘ It is unreasonable for us to accept that it is commonplace for people like our Cabinet Ministers to have affairs , and yet to consider that someone like the Prince of Wales is unfit for the job . ’ |
| 47 | There are times when it is convenient for us to go to sleep ( the shops are not open , etc. ) and when it is expected that we will not be noisy . |
| 48 | It is common for us to imagine that others are going to be as critical of us as we are of ourselves . |
| 49 | ‘ It is miserable for us to look back on these things . |
| 50 | It was not simply that this or that particular topic might need revision or reassessment , but , they said , ‘ It is vital for us to turn our back on academic eclecticism … , and on the tendency to turn the study of literature and language from a systematic science back once more into a miscellany of episodic and anecdotal essays ’ ( 1977 : 49 ) . |
| 51 | ‘ It is vital for us to have a good Christmas , ’ said 25-year-old Dozzell . |
| 52 | It is difficult for us to acknowledge that violence and destruction , on both sides , are expressions of ‘ rational ’ behaviour ; that ‘ reason ’ may be at the heart of violence . |
| 53 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 54 | Policies have their conditions and we try to make them as user friendly as possible but if people do not read conditions it is difficult for us to say we will ignore those conditions . ’ |
| 55 | Not surprisingly it is difficult for us to decide both how good and how genuinely popular all live variety was , let alone its precise relationship to the new entertainment of the movies . |
| 56 | It is difficult for us to see what Polybius added to his history after 146 , but where the additions are clear the anxiety and the warning are equally clear . |
| 57 | And under the present present planning framework it is difficult for us to do . |
| 58 | They are , quite clearly , highly organized and know what they are about , though it is difficult for us to reach into their world and see it from their point of view . |
| 59 | In our economy , where we are so familiar with money , it is difficult for us to envisage any other ways in which goods can be acquired , but in the past all sorts of mechanisms were employed and the same is true in the Third World today . |
| 60 | It is difficult for us to imagine the characteristics of wines described by critics writing a mere generation ago , let alone those of wines described centuries ago . |