Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [verb] [adj] [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 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 3 | Moreover , both parties found it impossible to sustain widespread interest in political organization . |
| 4 | The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now in the economic crisis , Italy and Nazi Germany found it politic to buy Hungarian grain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The philosophes found it necessary to use coded language in their assault on Christianity and the Church . |
| 10 | With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The differentiation went one stage further because Galileo found it necessary to distinguish two senses in which a biblical text could be construed . |
| 16 | Owen found it hard to take such incidents seriously . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When , later , I joined the Civil Service , I found it hard to follow that rule since I was constantly required to lie . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Many found it difficult to give accurate figures as the livestock year dictated two very definite peak work periods . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They often found it difficult to resist these demands . |
| 24 | Such LDCs subsequently found it difficult to service external debts and this had grave implications for the world 's financial system . |
| 25 | He still found it difficult to accept that Tess , the pure village maiden , was not what she seemed . |
| 26 | ‘ I found it difficult to get perfect results with the spiral and flat wands . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But he found it difficult to feel much pity for Yorick . |
| 29 | He found it difficult to have any sympathy for Katherine Lundy in this instance ; this situation was entirely of her own creation . |
| 30 | 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 . |