Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , where such measures are adopted by a qualified majority , Article 100A(4) provides that ‘ a Member State which deems it necessary to apply national provisions on grounds of major needs referred to in art . |
| 2 | ( Only later did we learn that Peking had considered it fashionable to support small countries , struggling against ‘ hegemony ’ . |
| 3 | Fiercely anti-Vichy , Ika 's family had considered it patriotic to have duplicate ration-books ; these they had conveniently retained in a post-Vichy world , and so they wanted for little . |
| 4 | ‘ My mother is a keen gardener , but she would consider it cruel to lift these ferns from their sheltered positions and subject them to Wellington winds . ’ |
| 5 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 6 | The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded . |
| 7 | From a theoretical standpoint , Minden and Casperson { 30 } have been able to model the xenon-laser data very well , but found it necessary to include such effects as velocity-changing collisions , and population transfer from upper to lower laser level by spontaneous emission , as well as standing-wave effects . |
| 8 | With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament . |
| 9 | It would be an error , certainly , to underestimate the skill of the provincial craftsman when he found it necessary to improvise foreign shades and highlights in local stone . |
| 10 | Due to unforeseen problems , they became so heavily involved in the project that both found it necessary to develop new skills which led to them becoming competent programmers in their own right . |
| 11 | The differentiation went one stage further because Galileo found it necessary to distinguish two senses in which a biblical text could be construed . |
| 12 | Owen found it hard to take such incidents seriously . |
| 13 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 14 | But despite the political war of words over tax , she found it hard to prepare new strategies because no party had said very much about VAT . |
| 15 | Many found it difficult to give accurate figures as the livestock year dictated two very definite peak work periods . |
| 16 | When King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden turned his attention to objects made of this material in building his collection of Chinese art there were those who found it difficult to reconcile such pieces with his choice porcelains , jades and lacquer-work . |
| 17 | They often found it difficult to resist these demands . |
| 18 | Such LDCs subsequently found it difficult to service external debts and this had grave implications for the world 's financial system . |
| 19 | ‘ I found it difficult to get perfect results with the spiral and flat wands . |
| 20 | Even at the height of its propagandist messages , the Staufen chancery found it difficult to counteract papal arguments , for they were conducted on a supernal plane . |
| 21 | But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line . |
| 22 | However , this has been a costly process and the fall in house prices since 1989 has made it impossible to earn adequate returns from these investments in the short-term . |
| 23 | That dispute has made it impossible to produce audited accounts . ’ |
| 24 | Since the 1970s , developments in the understanding of genetic processes and the manipulation and culture of cells have made it possible to create living organisms that are tailored to meet specific human needs . |
| 25 | On the other hand , through the development of container transport , telecommunications and the division of production into simpler , semi-skilled tasks , technology has made it possible to transfer these tasks to new factories in Third World markets . |
| 26 | Recent advances in methods aimed at mapping chromosomal regions and isolating novel genes , have made it possible to develop comprehensive strategies for the positional cloning of human disease genes . |
| 27 | Recent advances in gene manipulation have made it possible to express foreign genes in heterologous systems . |
| 28 | Norse raids down the west coast had already made it necessary to move sacred relics from St Columba 's isle of Iona to relative safety at Dunkeld in Perthshire , which became the ecclesiastical centre of the Scottish realm , though kings continued to be buried on Iona , as did several Viking chieftains . |
| 29 | By the end of the 1950s , however , the failure of autarchy as an economic programme had made it necessary to seek other options , and these implied at least the modification of the existing political framework . |
| 30 | This was partly because the increasing integration of world capital markets has made it easier to finance current-account deficits . |