Example sentences of "found it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These purchase notice provisions are restricted to owner occupiers of houses and small businesses who can show that they have made reasonable attempts to sell their property but have found it impossible to do so except at a substantially depreciated price because of certain defined planning actions . |
| 2 | At that point Jennifer had just had to give up her own job as she had found it impossible to continue nursing and Rachel could clearly remember the night she 'd found her sister severely depressed about her future . |
| 3 | The tragedy in this country is that the critical establishment has found it impossible to embrace those talents . |
| 4 | ‘ Up to now ’ , Miss Honey went on , ‘ I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems . |
| 5 | Preparing the soil in this way means that you are less likely to suffer from too many plant deaths where the roots of young plants have found it impossible to penetrate the soil . |
| 6 | Others , visiting Paris , would sit in Notre Dame to observe the pulpit techniques of French preachers although the listeners would have found it impossible to order a bifteck from a tolerant waiter . |
| 7 | ‘ You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and discharge my duties as the heir to the throne without the help and support of the woman I now loathe . ’ |
| 8 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 9 | She had always found it impossible to lie to Julius , though . |
| 10 | Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course . |
| 11 | I have found it impossible to convince young people in the latter stages of their compulsory education of the need to gain skills with which to enter full-time work . |
| 12 | For several weeks , Tobias Beventini had found it impossible to speak of the apprentice he had chosen to follow , to dissect , to guide , in a medical way , towards the real , adult world . |
| 13 | She sensed that , even in contesting her decision to make use of the Lodge , her father had found it impossible to speak his full revulsion for the place . |
| 14 | Some large firms have found it impossible to match competitors ' spending : Jaguar found it could not afford the costs of developing the next generation of engines and models and was forced to sell out to Ford in 1989 for £1.6 billion . |
| 15 | She had initially found it impossible to believe that a respected , churchgoing man could have been pushed beyond the limit of his endurance and have killed . |
| 16 | For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent . |
| 17 | Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership . |
| 18 | It has provided a valuable structure for our thinking and discussions , but , because we have had to focus less on teachers and more on pupils , we have not found it appropriate to map programmes of study directly on to the model . |
| 19 | Mme Guérigny shouted to Jean-Claude who , for one reason or another , had found it preferable to escape into the bathroom and shut the door . |
| 20 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 21 | Zvi could n't remember how long it was since he had last found it necessary to advertise , but with Wine telling the Cork Examiner 's readers for the last three weeks that ‘ owing to the great increase of my practice ’ he was moving to larger premises Zvi felt he had no alternative . |
| 22 | We have found it necessary to refuse traffic . ’ |
| 23 | More than that , she was lying ; somewhere along the line , and perhaps more than once , she had found it necessary to lie . |
| 24 | In writing this course I have found it necessary to do this in a way which is somewhat different from other writers ' proposals . |
| 25 | Staff have also found it necessary to attend children 's hearings both before and after an assessment panel . |
| 26 | But this does not mean , apparently , the active negotiation of meaning , the realization of speech acts , discourse enactment , social interaction , or indeed any aspect of language use which those who have been concerned with communicative approaches to language teaching have found it necessary to invoke . |
| 27 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 28 | In this discussion , however , we have found it necessary to turn to ‘ real-time ’ evidence ( Patterson , 1860 ; Staples , 1898 ) in order to help us to locate the direction of change . |
| 29 | And worse , we had recently found it necessary to replace two of the three giggling girls who had sadly fallen victim to the Spanish flu epidemic , and sack the third for incompetence . |
| 30 | Why , we enquired of Wilkinson , had his team found it necessary to pass the ball back so often — even from the half-way line ? |