Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , given the severe limitations of freedom of speech planned in the future fascist state , Mosley deemed it necessary to protect that liberty by providing more rigorous stewarding of public meetings to prevent them being broken up by left-wing activists . |
| 2 | The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded . |
| 3 | Cohen , however , found it impossible to make this approach work as a result of a confrontation with the kabaka in 1953 , and by 1955 Buganda had confirmed its special constitutional status within Uganda , a status which was if anything reinforced in the independence constitution of 1962 . |
| 4 | From a theoretical standpoint , Minden and Casperson { 30 } have been able to model the xenon-laser data very well , but found it necessary to include such effects as velocity-changing collisions , and population transfer from upper to lower laser level by spontaneous emission , as well as standing-wave effects . |
| 5 | Pope 's epistle is probably the most important statement of the dominant view of women in the eighteenth century , and women writing explicitly about issues of gender often found it necessary to confront this poem . |
| 6 | Owen found it hard to take such incidents seriously . |
| 7 | When , later , I joined the Civil Service , I found it hard to follow that rule since I was constantly required to lie . |
| 8 | When King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden turned his attention to objects made of this material in building his collection of Chinese art there were those who found it difficult to reconcile such pieces with his choice porcelains , jades and lacquer-work . |
| 9 | They often found it difficult to resist these demands . |
| 10 | He still found it difficult to accept that Tess , the pure village maiden , was not what she seemed . |
| 11 | But he found it difficult to feel much pity for Yorick . |
| 12 | He found it difficult to have any sympathy for Katherine Lundy in this instance ; this situation was entirely of her own creation . |
| 13 | Lady Emily found it easiest to ignore this room for two years ! |
| 14 | He was content , however , in the knowledge that this man had only ever been known to serve the Rada Loa , those good spirits who were often associated with Catholic saints when the people felt it necessary to show some respect for the official state religion without compromising their traditional beliefs . |
| 15 | If a man of such convictions felt it necessary to follow this course , how much more would have his religiously devoted colleagues . |
| 16 | Last year I thought it necessary to criticise several doctors for such behaviour . |
| 17 | Knowing his weakness for cards and drink , she thought it wiser to keep such information to herself . |
| 18 | Then there was what might be-called " fire-insurance Jacobitism " : in the 1690s a number of leading politicians — amongst them Tories such as Marlborough and Godolphin and Whigs such as Shrewsbury and Edward Russell — thought it wise to maintain some contact with the exiled Stuarts so that their own political security would be guaranteed should there be another Stuart restoration . |
| 19 | ( iv ) The canals made it easy to bring these materials together . |
| 20 | At this point the cycloaracylation process was discovered by Bayer , which made it possible to produce this type of substance . |
| 21 | It had been the intention to incorporate part of the old casual ward , to the east of the infirmary but in the course of the preparatory work it was found that the old buildings were bug-infested to an extent which made it undesirable to use any part of them . |
| 22 | Scale-less ( leather ) or partially scaled ( mirror ) varieties made it easier to prepare such fish for the table , while ‘ pot-bellied pigs ’ were encouraged for their high weight-to-length ratio . |
| 23 | These limitations affected the size of the sample and also made it difficult to employ such procedures as the multiple judging of rating scales . |