Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is compatible with a personal computer ; I found it simple to transfer Pro-File 's stored data and to display any dive profile . |
| 2 | I found it impossible to make relationships , I was one hell of a mess . |
| 3 | I found it hard to find Mill 's arguments for this , although he seems to be , he seems to be arguing the point over several pages , but erm we get pretty much rhetorical claims and evidence and so he wants us to consider those states which have been ruled by despots with those contemporary states which have been democracies England versus Spain say and he thinks it 's obvious which type of system we ought to prefer . |
| 4 | I found it difficult to regain control of the beast . |
| 5 | I found it difficult to get cuttings to root in earlier years , but I discovered that by starting them in water for 10 days , then potting up , I lost very few . |
| 6 | When asked : ‘ Why have you decided to take such a stand ? ’ he replied simply : ‘ I felt it necessary to put feet on the gospel . ’ |
| 7 | When it came to the interview he was somewhat nervous and on the defensive ( not being an old hand at it ) , and while I did my best to make him feel at ease , I felt it incumbent to put questions about the Roman Catholic Church 's teachings on divorce , homosexuality , abortion , celibacy , etc. , the answers to which I believed would be of interest to Catholics and non-Catholics alike . |
| 8 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
| 9 | Cheap newsprint ; new technology which made it possible to attract readers by printing illustrations relatively cheaply ; growing mass literacy , at least in western Europe ; mass newspaper readerships ; a resulting growth of mass public feeling , often emotional and volatile , on international questions : all these were now adding another element to the changing picture of relations between the European states . |
| 10 | Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon . |
| 11 | President Alija Izetbegovic told reporters his meeting with mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen was very short because of the ‘ bad news ’ from Bosnia which made it impossible to continue talks . |
| 12 | They were still held within the vice of their own fields , with all the complicated property rights which made it impossible to secure land for building development . |
| 13 | In use , we liked the larger , rubber-padded vice pegs of the 750 , compared to the 536 , and the larger variety of possible positions , which made it easy to grip straight-sided , tapered or oddly-shaped items on the surface of the bench . |
| 14 | This followed the abolition of exchange controls in 1979 , which made it easier to move funds between financial centres in different countries . |
| 15 | Operational problems were experienced at some of the less well positioned businesses which found it difficult to sustain market share in the current environment . |
| 16 | During the eighties the holders of debt from those countries which found it difficult to make interest payments found it impossible to take effective remedial action . |
| 17 | More important , she found it fascinating to put Monsieur de Levantiére 's advice into practice . |
| 18 | Her anger and resentment grew as she drove home and for the rest of that evening she found it difficult to get David Markham out of her mind . |
| 19 | Although she had made the best of resolutions not to be drawn into talking about her own times , she found it hard to resist Johnny 's persistent questioning . |
| 20 | She found it hard making friends there . |
| 21 | The snobbish distinction between art and craft only began in the eighteenth century amongst collectors who felt it necessary to describe creativity according to their social or monetary values . |
| 22 | There were also those who remembered Caledor 's words concerning the curse on the line of Aenarion , who thought it wise to remind others . |
| 23 | Because they saw the world as composed of groups rather than of individuals , they found it easy to articulate rules of general application , to which exceptions required specific dispensation . |
| 24 | When Kawasaki began operations in their US plant at Nebraska they found it preferable to import components from their subcontractors back in Japan who could even at that distance , guarantee weekly deliveries . |
| 25 | However , some did make the comment that they found it difficult to get details on the new systems . |
| 26 | In the public life of the former colonial power they found it gratifying to urge hatred of the alien race and of political liberalism alike . |
| 27 | ( But even they may not be accurate : census-takers last year reported that , in some areas , they found it hard to get people to fill in their forms , because they thought the census had some connection with poll tax . |
| 28 | He was able to extend his law to cubic and biquadratic residues , but to state his results elegantly he found it helpful to introduce numbers of the form a + pb and a + ib respectively where a , b are integers , p is a complex cube root of unity and , of course , i is the usual square root of -1 . |
| 29 | All the same , he found it pleasant to watch Hari reviving like a thirsty plant which has just been watered . |
| 30 | When Richard Earl of Cornwall was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1257 he found it useful to have cameos and intaglios dating from Classical antiquity inserted in his crown as well as precious stones ( fig.36 ) . |