Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Moreover , both parties found it impossible to sustain widespread interest in political organization . |
| 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 | I amused myself for about a month doing that , but when I got the cast taken off I found it uncomfortable to play conventional style — so I 've always felt right at home playing over the neck . |
| 5 | Now in the economic crisis , Italy and Nazi Germany found it politic to buy Hungarian grain . |
| 6 | The philosophes found it necessary to use coded language in their assault on Christianity and the Church . |
| 7 | So intense was this that the Chinese hierarchy , anxious to preserve the established order , found it necessary to restrain competitive display of grave goods by sumptuary regulation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When , later , I joined the Civil Service , I found it hard to follow that rule since I was constantly required to lie . |
| 10 | Three main reasons were given for the apparent lack of enthusiasm : board members found it difficult to spare additional time for this form of training ; they were doubtful of the ability of outside trainers to provide training in tune with local needs ; attempts by some education authorities to retain part of the training budget in order to supply such area sessions were seen by some members as demonstrating a lack of trust in the board 's ability to organise its own training . |
| 11 | He still found it difficult to accept that Tess , the pure village maiden , was not what she seemed . |
| 12 | The Sutton pupils quickly noticed that Russells Hall pupils , whom they had imagined would be perfect writers and illustrators , sought help from the teachers and each other and often found it difficult to locate required information . |
| 13 | But he found it difficult to feel much pity for Yorick . |
| 14 | He found it difficult to have any sympathy for Katherine Lundy in this instance ; this situation was entirely of her own creation . |
| 15 | Lady Emily found it easiest to ignore this room for two years ! |
| 16 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If a man of such convictions felt it necessary to follow this course , how much more would have his religiously devoted colleagues . |
| 19 | Knowing his weakness for cards and drink , she thought it wiser to keep such information to herself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At this point the cycloaracylation process was discovered by Bayer , which made it possible to produce this type of substance . |
| 22 | Mrs Bottomley said Prof Day was ‘ quite right ’ that AIDS remained a very serious threat but added that new statistics made it possible to frame future policy ‘ according to facts , not fantasy ’ . |
| 23 | In the 1970s , genetic engineering made it possible to clone human insulin genes in micro-organisms which secreted insulin with the same structure as natural human material . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But variety made it difficult to maintain consistent quality . |
| 26 | However , postwar shortages of materials made it difficult to accelerate new building . |
| 27 | This system made it difficult to provide sufficient cover to care for patients above safety or custodial observation levels . |