Example sentences of "finding it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ That shows that people want to adopt a healthier diet and lifestyle but are not finding it easy to make the change . |
2 | I 'm divorced now and not finding it easy to get a job in civvy street . ’ |
3 | Randy Sandone , formerly executive vice-president of Addamax and now president of the new 16-man firm , Argus Systems Group Inc , said that Addamax was finding it impossible to do business because of the lawsuit . |
4 | Randy Sandone , formerly executive vice president of Addamax and now president of the new 16-man firm , Argus Systems Group Inc , said that Addamax was finding it impossible to do business because of the lawsuit . |
5 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
6 | And we 've had , had instances of why that policy did n't work , and I 'm only sorry that those people who supported it before are finding it impossible to support it now . |
7 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
8 | Reference to Freemantle 's letter shows that although Philip and Anne Leapor both attempted to break their daughter of the habit of writing verses , toward the end of the poet 's life some accommodation was reached : ‘ But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , [ her father ] had of late desisted and left her more at Liberty ’ [ vol. 2 , p. xxx ] . |
9 | Evidence of two-tier trading already exists in Scotland , where companies with supermarket contracts are finding it impossible to cover overheads because the multiples themselves are locked in price competition . |
10 | Similarly , some of the bigger employers are finding it impossible to attract young workers on to their YTS schemes . |
11 | In the meantime , the Dragoons were floundering in the boggy ground , easy targets for the riflemen while finding it impossible to fire with any reasonable accuracy themselves . |
12 | Finding it impossible to break into movies after the production slump of the 1940s , before television offered an alternative route to aspiring filmmakers , people like Anderson , Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz worked instead within sponsored documentaries , while writing about the sort of passionate , personal filmmaking that seemed to be possible in France , Italy , even India , but not in Britain . |
13 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
14 | ‘ I 'm a copywriter at Grantham and Marsh — a top London advertising agency , ’ she responded coolly , finding it unnecessary to add that , because of the recession at present affecting the advertising world generally , her job might not be waiting for her on her return ! |
15 | The commission , ‘ while finding it necessary to admonish Mr Chapman and two of the players … also recognized the straightforwardness of Mr Chapman in reporting the matter . |
16 | The UAE , one of the states indicted by Iraq in 1990 , had previously come in for criticism without any members finding it necessary to resort to violence to obtain redress . |
17 | Straw-burning after harvest , now widely practised , exacerbates this problem , and some downland farmers are finding it necessary to go back to grass and more livestock to maintain the humus level and soil structure . |
18 | In an attempt to maintain their share of the young labour market , employers are finding it necessary to offer their own training courses , on the rates of pay currently going to young people in the labour market , rather than the YTS trainee pay level . |
19 | She was not normally of an argumentative disposition , finding it essential to have the last word , but now she felt it distinctly necessary to score points . |
20 | The findings indicate why groups such as the Pearl are finding it heavy going in their core business activity . |
21 | ‘ We 're finding it tough going this year , ’ says Robin . |
22 | They have been through an unsettling time and are finding it difficult to readjust . |
23 | And some carers and dependents find it difficult to adapt to a role reversal — the old person of course not wanting to relinquish her dominant role and the carer finding it difficult to cope with becoming the decision maker . ’ |
24 | Home helps said they were finding it difficult to cope with the extra responsibility . |
25 | I love my two sons , aged three and 21 months , but I 'm finding it difficult to cope with them . |
26 | Noticing my bewilderment , he revealed he was writing down the names of the ‘ bigwigs ’ , as he was finding it difficult to remember them all . |
27 | She had a restless night and is finding it difficult to sleep because of the memories of the attack . |
28 | However , she was finding it difficult to stifle the waves of panic which swept through her body at the thought of being in close contact with this man who had once meant so much to her . |
29 | We pack and move on , the dogs finding it difficult to move in the fresh snow . |
30 | There is evidence that the high incidence of unemployment amongst black people will make housing conditions , especially overcrowding , worse as young unemployed people are finding it difficult to move out after marriage and set up their own homes ( Brah , 1986 ) . |