Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to find [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unusual to find documentary evidence earlier than the fifteenth century , and extremely fortunate to find actual details of buildings . |
| 2 | But it is not so easy to find good examples of his suggestion that batterie can lend wit except in the Blue Boy 's révoltades in Ashton 's Les Patineurs . |
| 3 | Not so easy to find these days . |
| 4 | The Germans were so pleased to find such enthusiastic murderers that they used Riga as a clearing house for people they wanted killed . |
| 5 | Are young children naturally inclined to find non-natural concepts which do straddle these categories relatively difficult to learn ? |
| 6 | The ebony itself is extremely difficult to find these days , and I ended up buying 10 turning blanks , 30x2x2in ; each just enough to get a leg out of ! |
| 7 | It is extremely common to find Modular Course students attributing such problems as lack of time for background reading , or difficulty in combining final year commitments and applying for jobs , to the Modular Course . |
| 8 | It would be different if a school was making parents feel morally obliged to find these extras for their children , but we do not . |
| 9 | Reznor was not aware of it , however , and was somewhat surprised to find nasty things going bump in the night . |
| 10 | But he added that it was not normal to find such evidence . |
| 11 | There are a large number of organisations where the converse is true : it is not possible to find much talent and they do not occupy the time and effort of executive searchers . |
| 12 | The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 . |
| 13 | He himself admits that both the continental staff and the locally recruited waitresses are skilful , but privately he regrets that it is no longer possible to find enough male British waiters , as he feels this would ‘ look better ’ . |
| 14 | It is not easy to find enough foster parents to care for very difficult children ; all too often fostering breaks down and the child has to be returned again to the reception centre . |
| 15 | Influencing chief executives : The chairman or chief executive is often an enthusiast for the latest management thinking , but it 's generally hard to find direct links with the way they run their companies . |
| 16 | It is not unusual to find small , cramped and cluttered mortuary rooms , which give the impression that little consideration has been given to the work carried out in the department . |
| 17 | It is not unusual to find two syllabic consonants together . |
| 18 | It 's not unusual to find 30 or more entrance holes all associated with one colony . |
| 19 | However , many market research studies are carried out on large samples which would be beyond the reach of academic researchers and it is not unusual to find commercial surveys which contain quite valuable social information . |
| 20 | It is not customary to find any detail relating to these indexical features of the speaker in transcriptions by discourse analysts . |
| 21 | It is not hard to find suitable populations of bodies that could give rise to the observed range of crater sizes today — more on this in section 6.4 and in Chapter 8 . |
| 22 | It 's not hard to find bad ones with cubby-hole rooms , nylon sheets and towels like emery boards , but at the other extreme there are elegant houses with antique furniture . |
| 23 | Equally evident is the use of " heraldic " emblems , or tribal coats-of-arms , and it is not uncommon to find magical and totemistic motifs in a number of tribal and Chinese rugs . |
| 24 | Equally , it is not uncommon to find such introductions or extensions of temporary working labelled by those who are critical of them as the introduction or extension of " casualisation " ( see , for instance , the report of a motion passed at the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union ( AUEW ) which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " in Financial Times , 23/4/86 ) . |
| 25 | Registers tend to be filled in , often to a pattern , sometimes in advance , whereas actual attendance , particularly in rural areas may be far more sporadic than indicated , while in certain communities ( as with nomads such as the Kenya Turkana or Moslem communities suspicious of the corrupting influence of western schools on their children ) it is not uncommon to find considerable numbers of pupils who are on the roll , but attend sporadically and unwillingly . |
| 26 | Despite food hygiene regulations and the Food Safety Act , it is surprising that one of the principal aids to compliance is often neglected ; where one would expect to see commercial refrigeration it is still not uncommon to find domestic style refrigerators and freezers . |
| 27 | Although many board members reported being fascinated by recent developments , it was not uncommon to find those who failed to appreciate the amount of change since their own schooldays . |
| 28 | It is not uncommon to find old goldfish that are pale lemon or even white in colour . |
| 29 | In the Western and Northern Isles and on the north-west mainland of Scotland , it is not uncommon to find montane plants growing at or near sea level , though this phenomenon is probably better demonstrated in NW Sutherland and Shetland than in the Western Isles . |
| 30 | Just about the only humble occupation which derived from having the ability to read and write was that of teaching it to working-class children , and at that level school teaching was often the resort of widows , cripples and those generally unable to find better-paid work . |