Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He was very tired and found it hard to concentrate for long periods of time . |
2 | Current budgeting arrangements have made it difficult to plan for systematic upgrading , replacement and improvement . |
3 | Since most university students work from books to hand and find it impracticable to wait for inter-library loan requests — and you can not browse an inter-library loan book before it arrives , any more than you can browse the contents of books in the memory of an ‘ on-line ’ catalogue and not on a shelf in front of you — the result is a major diminution of standards . |
4 | Some of those who had absconded , and some women who were brought before the Board , were taken to the magistrate 's and on the Sunday evening after Christmas the house was in a very disturbed state so far that we did not think it prudent to assemble for Divine Worship . ’ |
5 | Congressmen will now find it hard to vote for further exploration in Alaska , especially in the wildlife refuge where the biggest untapped reserves probably still lie . |