Example sentences of "finds [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He makes two points : one , that they are as numerous proportionately in Edinburgh as in London , but in Scottish towns more plentiful than in comparable English locations ; and two , on the whole he finds them more quiet , and modest . |
| 2 | He finds them very difficult to follow . |
| 3 | Of the rumours , he said , ‘ Diana finds them very hurtful because they are not true . ’ |
| 4 | Summers is assiduous in research , but less interested in politics ; there are sides of Hoover 's story whose ordinariness he misses because he finds them so shocking . |
| 5 | ‘ No , Faye finds you very reassuring . |
| 6 | Maybe your man is about to leave you and finds you less lovable than you 'd like . |
| 7 | He still finds her extremely beautiful and she practically apologises to Pip for all the suffering that she put him through and tells him that she hopes they will still be friends ‘ apart ’ . |
| 8 | No man will publicly humiliate a woman because she is ‘ old ’ or he finds her sexually unattractive : no woman will deride a man for his sexual insufficiency or because he is ‘ weak ’ or ‘ wet ’ or a ‘ wimp ’ . |
| 9 | The Russian Girl finds him as sarcastic and caustic as ever : the day may come when he suffers fools gladly , but it is not yet in sight . |
| 10 | He 's got the kind of seriousness which he admires , and a certain way of leaning forward as he shows Howard round , as if he is eager to understand the world but finds it rather difficult . |
| 11 | He was even more baffled when he tried to convert some of his Duchy property in Kennington into small units for single teenagers — a group that finds it notoriously difficult to find accommodation — and met with vociferous local anger . |
| 12 | Prince Charles has denounced architects for defacing British cities ; Margaret Thatcher 's governments have challenged the monopolies enjoyed by opticians and the legal profession ; planners have been condemned for producing urban chaos ; teachers have been attacked for crushing originality and stifling creativity in their pupils ; and lawyers have been accused of mystifying the legal system to the point where the layman finds it largely unintelligible . |
| 13 | Attending the performance of a pastiche Jacobean tragedy , she attempts to incorporate lines from this play into the evidence she is piecing together , but then finds it utterly impossible to locate any edition which would confirm the lines she heard . |
| 14 | If the national court dealing with a question of Community law finds it particularly difficult , it always has the possibility of referring the matter to the European Court for a preliminary ruling to elucidate the matter . |
| 15 | It is when there are two diners present , even when one of them is one 's own employer , that one finds it most difficult to achieve that balance between attentiveness and the illusion of absence that is essential to good waiting ; it is in this situation that one is rarely free of the suspicion that one 's presence is inhibiting the conversation . |
| 16 | As a matter of fact she finds it quite hard to teach more than one group at a time , and many children spend part of the day on low-supervision activities or ‘ busy-work ’ , which does n't really move their thinking on . |
| 17 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 18 | The mind finds it much easier to work upon something than to cast around in a search . |
| 19 | Since boards of directors tend to be unsympathetic to such questions , the personnel manager generally finds it more expedient to adopt an imaginative approach to the information he supplies . |
| 20 | " Aye. , She finds it more convenient , I reckon — for her visitors . |
| 21 | Maybe , now that Liam is a toddler , he finds it more difficult to remain patient . |
| 22 | JOHN PRESCOTT did not go to university , was never a television presenter , and finds it exceedingly difficult to complete a grammatically correct sentence . |
| 23 | Bryan Christie reports that an economic analysis of Government strategy to improve Scotland 's health finds it seriously flawed |
| 24 | As we saw in the first chapter , an adult with this sort of emotional history finds it very hard to deal with separation of any sort . |
| 25 | The promising entrepreneur finds it very hard to compete with multinationals , which can always outproduce him and undercut his prices because of the very scale of their operations and capital . |
| 26 | But the commitment of governments was to the gold standard and free trade and , in 1922 , Baldwin reflected that , ‘ a free trade country , such as we are still , finds it very difficult to argue with a country that has a tariff weapon in its hand . ’ |
| 27 | Her solicitor , James Littlehales said : ‘ She 's very very distressed and finds it very difficult to understand how her daughter could do such a thing . |
| 28 | But what people in general feel about the situation Howard finds it very difficult to determine . |
| 29 | I have a very observant Afrikaans friend , a medical doctor , also a great admirer of Mr.X , who maintains that all top-class golfers walk on the insides of their feet , thus enabling them to maintain the right shin post without effort , as against the bandy-legged player , who finds it very difficult to keep his right knee firm on the backswing . |
| 30 | Now Michael Portillo is one of the Tory high flyers , for anyone that do n't know who he is , he 's a Tory high flyer who finds it very difficult to look down , very difficult to look down on those but he should look down before he makes a such statements . |