Example sentences of "it be [adj] [prep] us [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is necessary for us to settle on a royalty rate for overseas duplication of titles , and it is this I am now writing to you about . |
| 32 | It is necessary for us to settle on a royalty rate for overseas duplication of titles , and it is this I am now writing to you about . |
| 33 | When it is necessary for us to replace cross-grain cornice mouldings we have found that there is no satisfactory alternative to the time-tested , original method , i.e. saw-cutting and then finishing with large radius carving gouges and plenty of sanding . |
| 34 | And it is necessary for us to hide it as well . ’ |
| 35 | It is such a strong signal that it is necessary for us to know more about it . " |
| 36 | I understand from ART Films that before they can agree to supply us with a 1″ copy for incorporation into Project Video , it is necessary for us to request permission from you for us to use the footage . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | As for the nuclear test ban treaty , for as long as it is necessary for us to have nuclear weapons , we require the ability to test and we propose to keep the ability to test . |
| 39 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 40 | It is impossible for us to appreciate the impact of this dramatic change amongst people who for more than 40 years had been rigorously controlled by a centrally planned economy , implemented by a national and local bureaucracy . |
| 41 | It is impossible for us to understand the conclusion , then , without realizing that it is false . |
| 42 | Indeed it is impossible for us to imagine a social system operated by human beings which was not ordered by language ; human culture , as we know it , could not have been invented by a society of deaf mutes . |
| 43 | It is impossible for us to know exactly what circumstances combine to bring these extreme rarities to the islands : after breeding in north-eastern Siberia , they should be on their way to Manchuria for the winter . |
| 44 | Precisely for this reason it is impossible for us to have an ideal plan . |
| 45 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 46 | For example the most usual constraint we impose on ourselves is to believe that it is incumbent on us to carry out all the steps of a manufacturing process ourselves . |
| 47 | But it is incumbent on us to transform man at the same rate so that he will be capable of mastering new techniques and new ways of thinking . ’ |
| 48 | Since each member of the ring is only one mutational step away from the central biomorph , it is easy for us to see them as children of the central parent . |
| 49 | It is easy for us to slip into the assumption that the institutional , professional and curricular structures with which we are familiar are somehow natural or inevitable . |
| 50 | However , it had not been realised that we process speech as much by our expectations as by our sensations : it is easy for us to hear the same acoustic signal as ‘ It 's easy to recognise speech ’ or ‘ It 's easy to wreck a nice beach ’ according to context . |
| 51 | It is possible for us to do it — we carried out one test in France — but it is very expensive . ’ |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Berger impersonates her to a fault , both in the superb egotism of female love — ‘ It is painful for us to judge the man we 've taken , for he 's already ours , like a son ’ — and in the certitudes of peasant thinking : ‘ I will tell you which men deserve our respect … |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | It is common for us to imagine that others are going to be as critical of us as we are of ourselves . |
| 57 | It is unusual for us to devote much space to fiction . |
| 58 | It is important to us to maintain and seek to improve those ratings to enable us to minimise the cost of our borrowings . |
| 59 | However he added : ‘ It is important for us to go on keeping cool and keeping calm , as we will . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ It is important for us to go on keeping cool and keeping calm , as we will , ’ he added . |