Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament . |
| 5 | It would be an error , certainly , to underestimate the skill of the provincial craftsman when he found it necessary to improvise foreign shades and highlights in local stone . |
| 6 | Due to unforeseen problems , they became so heavily involved in the project that both found it necessary to develop new skills which led to them becoming competent programmers in their own right . |
| 7 | The differentiation went one stage further because Galileo found it necessary to distinguish two senses in which a biblical text could be construed . |
| 8 | Owen found it hard to take such incidents seriously . |
| 9 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 10 | But despite the political war of words over tax , she found it hard to prepare new strategies because no party had said very much about VAT . |
| 11 | Many found it difficult to give accurate figures as the livestock year dictated two very definite peak work periods . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They often found it difficult to resist these demands . |
| 14 | Such LDCs subsequently found it difficult to service external debts and this had grave implications for the world 's financial system . |
| 15 | ‘ I found it difficult to get perfect results with the spiral and flat wands . |
| 16 | Even at the height of its propagandist messages , the Staufen chancery found it difficult to counteract papal arguments , for they were conducted on a supernal plane . |
| 17 | But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line . |
| 18 | Last year I thought it necessary to criticise several doctors for such behaviour . |
| 19 | Thought it unreasonable to provide alternative strategies |
| 20 | ( iv ) The canals made it easy to bring these materials together . |
| 21 | The resultant political disunity , probably exacerbated by quarrels over the best methods to adopt against the Scandinavians , and coupled with the king 's apparent inability to provide the necessary leadership , made it impossible to assemble successful armies . |
| 22 | The all embracing structure of the nation as a family headed by the Emperor , made it impossible to challenge particular aspects of the social order without calling into question the ultimate authority of the Emperor . |
| 23 | The detailed demographic studies of Ranunculus repens made by Sarukhán in the field at Henfaes and followed by unpublished studies by Soane made it possible to give quantitative measures to the population dynamics of this species . |
| 24 | The absence of vowels made it possible to confuse two words which are crucial to this problem : " eleph and " alluph . |
| 25 | Half television , half microscope , Roberts 's invention made it possible to magnify living tissues up to 25,000 times , against an ordinary miscroscope 's 5,000 times . |
| 26 | Novel methods of analysis made it possible to do chemical separations in minutes instead of days or weeks . |
| 27 | This approach ( as opposed to relying on remote link via a telephone line ) made it possible to provide interactive analyses during negotiation meetings . |
| 28 | This type of informal intervention in turn increased confusion over the weight to be attached to the enterprise 's different objectives , and made it harder to co-ordinate political goals and express them in a coherent manner . |
| 29 | Most grammar schools were single sex ; mixed schools were usually provided only where the sparseness of the population made it impracticable to provide separate schools for boys and girls . |
| 30 | The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time . |