Example sentences of "[is] [adj] for us [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I ask , Mr Chairman , if it 's possible for us to have a copy of the reports ? |
| 2 | It 's right for us to live where we do , between land and water . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is possible for us to do it — we carried out one test in France — but it is very expensive . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Having seen him about six times , and having spoken to most of their leaders , I believe that the time is right for us to talk to them now , to end this whole conflict once and for all . |
| 8 | Time Out publisher Tony Elliott , who is chairman of the TV Listings Campaign lobby group , says : ‘ We ended with a decision which was very favourable to us — about £1,000 a year for Time Out — and we know it 's unrealistic for us to complain , although a large number of publishers believe this information should be completely free . ’ |
| 9 | It is easier for us to do this than it is for the English or Americans . ’ |
| 10 | Let us suppose that binary oppositions are natural in the sound system of a language , that because of the physical properties of our auditory apparatus it is easier for us to distinguish x/not-x-type contrasts . |
| 11 | You see it 's one thing for Jesus to say that it 's another for us to believe it and accept it . |
| 12 | It 's wrong for us to steal from someone who seems to be richer than we are just as it 's wrong for someone to steal from us if they think their need is greater than ours . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | ‘ It 's simple for us to speak of love , ’ I said to Helen . |
| 15 | Back in Ephesians in the first chapter in in verse three , see it 's easy for us to say , well what a lot of stupid people they were ! |
| 16 | It 's easy for us to keep our religious faith when things are going well for us and we feel successful . |
| 17 | After a while we realized you know that 's not on , it 's impossible for us to sort this out you know we need help . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is impossible for us to understand the conclusion , then , without realizing that it is false . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Precisely for this reason it is impossible for us to have an ideal plan . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That being so , it is appropriate for us to act in a similar way . |
| 28 | It is unusual for us to devote much space to fiction . |
| 29 | So as you can see , it is imperative for us to attain a constant turnover to maximize profitability . ’ |
| 30 | All aspects of education are necessary to develop a whole personality and every child has a whole personality , even if it is hard for us to see this at times . |