Example sentences of "[vb base] it [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and did ‘ not consider it possible to state in any grater detail what form this link should take ’ ( see Annex I to the Commission 's reply in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case C 246/89 ) . |
| 2 | Women with babies have something in common and can strike up a conversation , and the old and the young find it easy to talk to one another when there is a baby in the picture . |
| 3 | I find it easy to switch from one role to the other . |
| 4 | Looking over the abyss of infinite possibility , they find it easy to slip into endless striving and pursuit of whatever is , at that moment , desired . |
| 5 | At this stage of the argument , I find it helpful to turn to recent developments in Canada . |
| 6 | Lawyers representing children and other parties may on occasion find it helpful to refer to these publications . |
| 7 | Because the total numbers of animals on islands tend to be small , large predators in general find it impossible to exist at all — except , of course , for creatures such as seals and sealions , which feed at sea and come ashore only to breed or bask . |
| 8 | Since most university students work from books to hand and find it impracticable to wait for inter-library loan requests — and you can not browse an inter-library loan book before it arrives , any more than you can browse the contents of books in the memory of an ‘ on-line ’ catalogue and not on a shelf in front of you — the result is a major diminution of standards . |
| 9 | Although these problems obviously exist , there are older mothers too who find it hard to cope with daily life . |
| 10 | I find it hard to think of any more splendid compensation than conferment of the power to transfer a very large sum of money from a newspaper which I dislike and despise to an organisation or institution which I love and admire . |
| 11 | Many aircrew welcomed the Gatwick Sterling Hotel 's understated block colour schemes , some find it hard to unwind in busy , chintzy bedrooms . |
| 12 | I find it difficult to live with such a regimented approach to the first movement , however . |
| 13 | People who find it difficult to cope with this self-inflicted mental ridicule , particularly the egotistical , opt out , rather than push themselves that little bit nearer to the ultimate truth of the martial arts . |
| 14 | But the people who are running them often do not know of each other 's existence , or if they do , they find it difficult to cooperate with one another . |
| 15 | If you are getting on to a diet which involves being very restricted for choice , and in some cases , missing out meals altogether , you are perfectly normal if you find it difficult to stick to this in the long term . |
| 16 | When talking about brothers and sisters , children can often say who is the tallest or shortest , but find it difficult to distinguish between oldest and youngest . |
| 17 | Many of those attending the doctor 's surgery with physical symptoms , such as headache or diarrhoea , actually have serious emotional , sexual or family problems that they want to discuss with the doctor , but find it difficult to start on such sensitive topics . |
| 18 | Would the Prime Minister really find it advisable to appear in public in opposition to the famous Mr Robinson ? |
| 19 | These features make it possible to swim by sinusoidal undulations . |
| 20 | I think it unnecessary to go through those cases , or to examine the particular grounds on which each of them was decided . |