Example sentences of "it is [adj] for us [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is paramount for us now to retain high interest rates , which are high in the historic sense , in real terms , and are high compared with Japan , and with America , where they stand at 5 per cent . |
| 2 | yet without answers to these questions and others like them , it is impossible for us fully to understand our own history and , more importantly , impossible to advise today 's emergent nations on the routes they should be following . |
| 3 | It is difficult for us today to enter fully into the power that those ancient rituals must have generated , but anyone who has attended a religious revival meeting with its emphasis on repentance , tears and rebirth is in touch with the same forces . |
| 4 | It is difficult for us now to understand how it was that so many serious thinkers in those days were prophetically-minded . |
| 5 | There some of the inhabitants commit some kind of sacrilege which it is hard for us now to decipher . |