Example sentences of "it is [adj] for us [verb] " in BNC.

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1 That being so , it is appropriate for us to act in a similar way .
2 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 .
3 Although I accept that it is right for us to do that , a counterbalance should be a more effective way of scrutinising affirmative and negative orders .
4 It is better for us to say we are going to have to institute a series of strict priorities .
5 To understand the primitive way of life , or the way of life of a society far removed from our own , it is necessary for us to extend our way of life into the orbit of the form of life of that society , rather than bring the form of life of that society into the orbit of our own .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 And it is necessary for us to hide it as well . ’
10 It is such a strong signal that it is necessary for us to know more about it . "
11 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 .
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 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 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 .
16 It is impossible for us to understand the conclusion , then , without realizing that it is false .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Precisely for this reason it is impossible for us to have an ideal plan .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 It is possible for us to do it — we carried out one test in France — but it is very expensive . ’
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 …
28 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 .
29 It is common for us to imagine that others are going to be as critical of us as we are of ourselves .
30 It is unusual for us to devote much space to fiction .
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