Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She guessed he found it intriguing to be able to talk about his consuming interest in the sport with a girl who not only knew what he was talking about , but could actually offer opinions that were interesting . |
| 2 | I actually found it I know me and you have discussed this earlier on and I , I , I did n't find it I found it confusing to be honest with you . |
| 3 | But again I found it difficult to be rude . |
| 4 | He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions . |
| 5 | Later , she found it natural to be active in her union . |
| 6 | Make friends with someone who finds it easy to be spontaneous . |
| 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 | And remember that some of us are ‘ larks ’ who find it easy to be bright and efficient early in the morning but need to go to bed relatively early at night . |
| 9 | We require the royal authority now , not when priests find it convenient to be present ! |
| 10 | Gazans find it hard to be enthusiastic about the talks . |
| 11 | I just find it difficult to be interested in clothes or how I look . |
| 12 | Some might nonetheless think it justifiable to be fearful of the merely speculative dangers of a long-term reduction in the body 's oestrogen levels . |
| 13 | Vic 's easy manner made it difficult to be annoyed for long . |
| 14 | Somehow he thinks it remote from morality to face the facts ; somehow he thinks it possible to be good without being wise . |
| 15 | Chris always thinks it wise to be polite to Tommy . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll be in touch , ’ he said loudly before he left , and Alyssia shook her head in frustration , finding it difficult to be angry , even though he had blackened her yet more in Piers 's eyes . |
| 17 | She was half laughing now , finding it hard to be annoyed at what he was saying . |
| 18 | This was certainly not necessary for the decision of the case ; but though the resolution of the Court of Common Pleas was only a dictum , it seems to me clear that Lord Coke deliberately adopted the dictum , and the great weight of his authority makes it necessary to be cautious before saying that what he deliberately adopted as law was a mistake , and though I can not find that in any subsequent case this dictum has been made the ground of the decision , except in Fitch v. Sutton ( 1804 ) 5 East 230 , as to which I shall make some remarks later , and in Down v. Hatcher ( 1839 ) 10 Ad. & El . |
| 19 | Another noted that ‘ the very expression ‘ green belt ’ sounds like something an ordinary man may find it worthwhile to be interested in who may find no appeal whatever in ‘ the distribution of industrial population ’ or ‘ decentralisation ’ … |
| 20 | Although the US , or at least the State Department , ‘ frankly [ had ] no solution of problem to suggest ’ it was obvious that the US was at this stage hoping for a negotiated settlement , a settlement in which their further hope was that France would find it possible to be more than generous . |
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| 22 | She must find it galling to be confused , as she often is , with Dian Fossey , the American disciple of Louis Leakey who studied gorillas in Rwanda ; her life and murder — probably by poachers — became the subject of a Hollywood film . |
| 23 | I realise that there are many young Asian women living in Britain today who might find it difficult to be different from their friends at school . |
| 24 | The problems with the two methods are different so we will go through each in turn — in fact you may well find it convenient to be able to use both methods . |
| 25 | Do you find it hard to be objective about your looks as you grow older ? |