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 . |