Example sentences of "found it [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tragedy in this country is that the critical establishment has found it impossible to embrace those talents . |
| 2 | I have found it impossible to convince young people in the latter stages of their compulsory education of the need to gain skills with which to enter full-time work . |
| 3 | Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership . |
| 4 | Why had Frank found it necessary to provide that bit of information ? |
| 5 | We have found it useful to ask all group members to read , in turn , and aloud , sections of the printed handouts that have been distributed before they are discussed . |
| 6 | Private sector organisations , more familiar with the model , have not always found it easy to integrate non-executive directors into their work ( Ham , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | In anthropomorphic terms , we should not ask why complex organisms have found it beneficial to be diploid , but why genes living in pairs should have found it beneficial to construct complex bodies to protect and replicate them . |
| 8 | A comparison of the motor and aircraft industries shows that recently the motor manufacturers have found it easier to apply new concepts . |
| 9 | But since Cassius 's ‘ The fault lies not in our stars , but in ourselves ’ we have found it hard to take external circumstances as the sole cause of terrible events . |
| 10 | In making the choice , the selection conference in the case of the Labour Party , and the constituency executive in the case of the Conservative Party , are not easily moved by pressure from outside and even the leaders of the parties have found it hard to get close friends and political associates nominated . |
| 11 | There are very few independent luxury car firms with the reputation of Jaguar , and volume manufacturers have found it hard to develop luxury cars of their own , considered to be competitive with specialists such as Daimler Benz and BMW . |
| 12 | Researchers have found it hard to establish clear patterns of development , either in observing one child or in comparing different stages of reading mastery . |
| 13 | There has always been an international dimension to civil litigation , and States have found it desirable to devote some efforts to easing the difficulties experienced by their citizens and business enterprises in pursuing or defending claims involving persons or entities in other countries . |
| 14 | The Commission has often brought forward proposals using a dubious legal base , and the Council has found it difficult to halt that practice in the European Court . |
| 15 | Non-executive directors , presumably with appropriate expertise , have also found it difficult to influence corporate policy , even when things are going wrong . |
| 16 | Management have consequently found it difficult to process new working practices and productivity measures through the machinery , while it in turn has sometimes delayed items to postpone their reaching the arbitration stage at the RSNT . |