Example sentences of "found it [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
| 2 | Pursued there and besieged , they fled by night to raise a loyal army , but found it pitiful in numbers . |
| 3 | Although law reform was at hand , the government found it politic in 1977 to set up a Home Office Committee on Obscenity , Indecency , Violence and Film Censorship under the Chairmanship of the Cambridge Professor of Philosophy , Bernard Williams . |
| 4 | Churchill was prime minister , and though he found it politic in the face of American and Labour pressure to allow negotiations about India 's constitutional future to go on , at the same time he ensured that all such negotiations came to nought . |
| 5 | Invaluable experience , of course , but I found it frustrating in that , so often , I was n't able to see cases right through . ’ |
| 6 | This is fine in principle , but I found it awkward in practice . |
| 7 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 8 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 9 | Because the development officer in Ipswich was not able to see these institutionalised clients in their own homes she understandably found it hard in many cases to say whether or not she agreed with the decision that they should not return home . |
| 10 | Many who subscribed to COS principles in theory found it difficult in practice to abandon to destitution or the Poor Law many who were in desperate and immediate need . |
| 11 | Part of his apparently subdued reaction to the Nobel no doubt sprang from a genuine lack of confidence in his ability to continue writing ( it was not , for him , a novel feeling ) but he also found it difficult in conversation to react to praise or flattery — like Coriolanus , he did not like to hear his " nothings monster 'd " . |
| 12 | They always found it natural in government . |
| 13 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
| 14 | Mozart and his contemporaries , who ( unlike the English ) had no continuous tradition of listening to baroque music , found it sparse in texture in a way that to them must have seemed musically primitive . |
| 15 | In his tract justifying the activities of the Commons in the Parliament of 1701 , when the Tories had made a number of attacks on the policies of the Court Whigs , culminating in the attempted impeachment of some of the Junto Lords , the High Anglican Tory , James Drake , found it plausible in one place to quote Algernon Sidney in support of his argument about the rights of the lower House ; the tract as a whole , however , makes it clear that Drake can in no way be considered a convert to Sidney 's particular brand of radical Whiggery . |