Example sentences of "[noun prp] found it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough found it impossible to come to terms with the Israeli as he snatched two first-half goals . |
| 2 | Now in the economic crisis , Italy and Nazi Germany found it politic to buy Hungarian grain . |
| 3 | If Baker found it tight , his quarter final opponent could n't have had it much easier , because Hill booked his place courtesy of a remarkable 21–0 victory over Tommy Evans . |
| 4 | The nickname had been coined by Hauser himself and Carver found it childish . |
| 5 | The Braun Independent heated up very quickly , but Sarah found it tricky to use the tong without the ends of her hair having a kink . |
| 6 | Hobbes found it remarkable that some , but not all , things had conscious awareness and perception : ‘ Of all the phenomena or appearances which are near us , the most admirable is apparition itself … namely , that some natural bodies have in themselves the patterns almost of all things , and others of none at all . ’ |
| 7 | Sophie found it hard to suppress a smile as she greeted her visitor , but there was no smile on Dawn 's face . |
| 8 | In adapting it to a.c. operation , Heydweiller found it necessary to incorporate the extra variable resistor of resistance R 2 compared with the Carey Foster version . |
| 9 | Even as a good Fascist Ezra found it hard to swallow the persecution of the Jews . |
| 10 | Sue Baker of Hammicks found it dull . |
| 11 | Denis found it hard not to wave back ! |
| 12 | Looking back afterwards , Florrie found it hard to believe that such a tragedy could have arisen from such trivial , everyday circumstances . |
| 13 | In Abbel Mr Justice found it appropriate for the plaintiff quote , to recompense his parents up to the commercial rate for one full time carer , unquote . |
| 14 | Kirov found it difficult to enthuse over the photograph , mainly because of the subject matter . |
| 15 | Even knowing what he did , Kirov found it difficult to see how the optical illusion had been managed . |
| 16 | Such was their anxiety during the two days that were left before the exam results were due that Mona and Sheila found it hard to eat or sleep . |
| 17 | Of course , none of us particularly likes an opponent to change his tack , let alone his apparent nature , and Nonconformists who had listened to Dean Stanley and remembered the latitudinarianism of Thomas Arnold found it difficult to tolerate Lord Halifax and Bishop King . |
| 18 | After the Great War Sir Henry , an estate agent and former Mayor of Fulham , used his influence to get his club elected to the enlarged First Division , but Arsenal found it hard going , their best season being 1920–21 when they finished ninth . |
| 19 | An educated woman , attuned to the refinements of Cambridge society , Emilia found it hard to relate otherwise than de haut en bas even to the local gentry . |
| 20 | In work with neurotics , and patients unable to recover from the death of a loved one , Freud found it useful to conceptualize matters in the following way . |
| 21 | Ken found it hard to adapt to the new age . |
| 22 | It was not an ideal situation , Hari found it difficult to cope with the hard exacting work of a shoemaker and the demands of her short tempered mother . |
| 23 | Applied to the artists showing at Brussels , the term could have no very definite meaning , and Apollinaire found it hard to identify many specific characteristics shared by the painters , or even to distinguish Cubism from Fauvism : ‘ One feature unites them , for if the principal merit of the painters who have been called the Fauves was the return to fundamental principles as far as colour and composition are concerned , the Cubists , in order to extend yet further the province of an art thus renewed , have sought to return to basic principles of drawing and inspiration . |
| 24 | The immediate result of George 's absence was the loss of his advice regarding the wine list , about which Olive knew little , and after three months Marie found it necessary to engage a specialist wine waiter . |
| 25 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 26 | Even Napoleon found it expedient to buttress force by prescription , having antique gems implanted in his crown and terming it the crown of Charlemagne . |
| 27 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 28 | In other words , Brazil found it hard to balance domestic and export intervention policies simultaneously . |
| 29 | For all McStay 's skills Celtic found it frustrating to cope with St Johnstone 's packed and well-marshalled defence . |
| 30 | Regrettably for the Palace , Alan found it difficult to adjust to 2nd and then 3rd Division football , where his undoubted skills were given short shrift by our opponents and , although he always gave of his best , he was equally always a heavily marked man . |