Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even Napoleon found it expedient to buttress force by prescription , having antique gems implanted in his crown and terming it the crown of Charlemagne . |
| 4 | At Paddy End ( it was still at that time known as Paddies End ) , Barratt considered it sufficient to set pitches to gangs of men in the existing old workings . |
| 5 | In 1971 Thomson found it necessary to reduce publication from weekly to monthly . |
| 6 | So Jane found it easy to ask Flora — whom she found honest and direct — how she and Alastair had got together . |
| 7 | Ice on the north coast of Spitsbergen made it impossible to pass Amsterdam Island , and so he made for Franz Josef Land , discovered only in 1873–4 , and partly mapped . |
| 8 | Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works . |
| 9 | Coleridge found it difficult to accept failure quite so dispassionately . |
| 10 | Owen found it hard to keep track of all of them . |
| 11 | Hungry as she was , Claudia found it difficult to do justice to the meal . |
| 12 | For a while Glass found it difficult to find people to perform his work , so he formed his own ensemble ( which continues performing at a prodigious rate ) . |
| 13 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 14 | We see why Marx felt it important to attack Smith 's generalised conception of the division of labour , and to insist on the different conditions governing the division of labour between and within commodity producing enterprises . |
| 15 | Anne found it difficult to like Hetty , although she had to admit honestly that it was partly because she was not Sarah . |
| 16 | Miloš also wrote to the Austrian authorities and Metternich thought it advisable to remove Vuk from Zemun , first to Buda and then to join his Austrian wife and their two children in Vienna . |
| 17 | Rostov found it hard to feel sympathy for Grigoriev 's predicament . |
| 18 | Lucien found it hard to doubt Azmaveth 's words because of the zeal with which she spoke , but he still had difficulty believing her . |
| 19 | Nestorius believed it heretical to describe Mary as Theotokos , or God-bearer , on the basis that Mary gave birth to a man , Jesus , in whom God dwelt . |
| 20 | In 1967 John Rowe Townsend felt it necessary to draw attention to the return of heavy-handed didacticism in children 's books , and critical evaluations of them . |
| 21 | Shocked as she was , Louise felt it unwise to take sides . |