Example sentences of "is [adj] for us " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is possible for us to do it — we carried out one test in France — but it is very expensive . ’ |
| 3 | Here naturalism seems to slip back in , at least in the attempt to explain how knowledge is possible for us . |
| 4 | Women in the community need to find out what is possible for us as a prerequisite to identifying what is not available and what we would like to see . |
| 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 | 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 | ‘ 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 | I 'm sorry , Sam ; I can see that I 'm either too early or too late with this , but the time is right for us . |
| 9 | ‘ We have saved money for resources , but we dare n't use it , because there is nothing that is right for us . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A high performance , and a , the amount of stress that is right for us . |
| 13 | and I do n't believe that is detailed for us , has enabled us sit here and say , yes , A there 's room for them , and B there 's enough parking , and C there 's enough turning . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | Speaking after BSAD 's national junior swimming championships , Mr O'Connor said : ‘ The Dolphin Centre is perfect for us because it has a top class pool and excellent facilities for disabled swimmers . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Precisely for this reason it is impossible for us to have an ideal plan . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is impossible for us to understand the conclusion , then , without realizing that it is false . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ It is impossible for us to be nearer to Wembley than we were tonight , ’ he said . |
| 26 | It is uncomfortable for us all , but it happens all over the world , every day of the week . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Such draconian time limits as these may be too strong medicine for our taste ; but the example of a general right of recovery subject to strict time limits imposed as a matter of policy is instructive for us as we seek to solve the problem in the present case . |