Example sentences of "have found it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Sadly , it has been all too often the case that it is precisely in this area that individuals and agencies have found it most difficult to co-operate .
2 Human experimenters have found it surprisingly difficult to put bats off their stride by playing loud artificial ultrasound at them .
3 For an industry that is one of the biggest single employers in this country though , times have been hard during 1991/92 and businesses country-wide have found it increasingly difficult to continue the level of graduate recruitment .
4 In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core .
5 At the same time , however , the parties have found it increasingly difficult to build and sustain popular confidence in their capacity to ‘ solve the country 's problems ’ , as these problems have become more acute and intractable .
6 We have found it particularly important to develop candidate materials to explain the additional assessment in language suitable for our trainees .
7 For some years Amnesty International has gazed with envy at those charities and voluntary organizations that have found it relatively easy to attract donations and sponsorship of events from companies .
8 Even recent Conservative governments have found it extremely difficult to make real reductions in public spending .
9 No wonder investigators have found it more profitable to examine this problem in animals , where it is much easier to programme experience and ensure that only single events are studied without the influence of others .
10 Though orchids are easy to propagate from seed , and exporting them is exempt from Cites rules , traders have found it more profitable to dig plants up instead .
11 Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks .
12 I have found it very useful to prepare a graphical cropping plan ( see Figure 3 ) looking ahead a number of years .
13 Without private means , as a less-promising drop-out from Edinburgh medicine , he would even after his voyage have found it very difficult to find employment giving leisure for research .
14 For too long secondary schools have found it organisationally convenient to compartmentalise subjects .
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