Example sentences of "it is [adj] for us imagine " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is common for us to imagine that others are going to be as critical of us as we are of ourselves . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is difficult for us to imagine now , but at the time this was a revolutionary book , not only because it put a new type of archaeological field monument , the deserted medieval village ( DMV ) , firmly on the map , but also because it heralded a new era in the study of rural settlements in this country . |
| 5 | The point is not that we in any way deliberately do down the intelligence of animals — although we do this as well — but that it is hard for us to imagine the workings of forms of intelligence that have evolved to cope with environmental circumstances different from our own . |