Example sentences of "it is [adj] for 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 She took him by the hands and said eagerly , ‘ Don — we could live here — it is right for us — would you like that , Don ? ’
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 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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 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 .
14 And it is necessary for us to hide it as well . ’
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 It is such a strong signal that it is necessary for us to know more about it . "
18 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 . ’
19 Precisely for this reason it is impossible for us to have an ideal plan .
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 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 .
22 It is impossible for us to understand the conclusion , then , without realizing that it is false .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 It is impossible for us to be nearer to Wembley than we were tonight , ’ he said .
27 It is uncomfortable for us all , but it happens all over the world , every day of the week . ’
28 Kollek , while agreeing that there should be a " certain amount of autonomy " for the Arabs of Jerusalem , ruled out any compromise on the unity of the city , declaring : " It is absolute for us that Jerusalem is one . "
29 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 .
30 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 .
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