Example sentences of "it is [adj] [prep] us " 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 | That being so , it is appropriate for us to act in a similar way . |
| 3 | Save the rainforest because it is good for us . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is used to us picking out its feet , and filing them , and yet it will not stand still for the farrier . |
| 6 | She took him by the hands and said eagerly , ‘ Don — we could live here — it is right for us — would you like that , Don ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is because of those reforms that it is right for us to be sceptical about some of the claims that the right hon. Gentleman has made today . |
| 9 | ‘ It is better for us to say we are going to have to institute a series of strict priorities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And it is necessary for us to hide it as well . ’ |
| 17 | At the beginning of this debate , it is necessary for us all to hope that the current ceasefire in Croatia and the negotiations are successful . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is such a strong signal that it is necessary for us to know more about it . " |
| 20 | It is unacceptable to us that there should be any withholding of funds due to Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | The social charter has an enormous role to play and we should concern ourselves with that , because it is relevant to us all , wherever we live and whatever part of the country we represent . |
| 23 | It is unclear to us why the interview of 600 mothers in 1989 would be a more reliable way to measure drug pressure than the total sales per annum of drug suppliers in 1991 and 1992 or the treatments given at an outpatient clinic . |
| 24 | Precisely for this reason it is impossible for us to have an ideal plan . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is impossible for us to understand the conclusion , then , without realizing that it is false . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |