Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 2 | With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many found it difficult to give accurate figures as the livestock year dictated two very definite peak work periods . |
| 8 | Such LDCs subsequently found it difficult to service external debts and this had grave implications for the world 's financial system . |
| 9 | ‘ I found it difficult to get perfect results with the spiral and flat wands . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line . |
| 12 | Thought it unreasonable to provide alternative strategies |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Novel methods of analysis made it possible to do chemical separations in minutes instead of days or weeks . |
| 18 | This approach ( as opposed to relying on remote link via a telephone line ) made it possible to provide interactive analyses during negotiation meetings . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She vigorously criticized William Smellie [ q.v. ] , who taught midwifery to surgeons using a leather mannequin , but she also considered it unethical to oblige poor women in charitable institutions to give birth in the presence of male students . |
| 21 | For that reason Jaffray considered it important to provide concrete images of ballet performances . |