Example sentences of "find it [adj] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they saw the world as composed of groups rather than of individuals , they found it easy to articulate rules of general application , to which exceptions required specific dispensation . |
| 2 | When Kawasaki began operations in their US plant at Nebraska they found it preferable to import components from their subcontractors back in Japan who could even at that distance , guarantee weekly deliveries . |
| 3 | In work with neurotics , and patients unable to recover from the death of a loved one , Freud found it useful to conceptualize matters in the following way . |
| 4 | So it will not do to say that the reason why the Government found it necessary to curtail debate on the Bill was that they felt that there would be massive opposition to it . |
| 5 | The English Copernican John Wilkins also found it necessary to revise concepts of biblical authority in order to make room for scientific propositions that seemed at odds with the plain meaning of Scripture . |
| 6 | In 1971 Thomson found it necessary to reduce publication from weekly to monthly . |
| 7 | The money was removed and the new element of time on a job was applied , and er this was n't done easily of course because when they introduced the work study consultants , erm we found it necessary , particularly the shop stewards found it necessary to have consultation with the management . |
| 8 | I often found it necessary to reprimand students for learning their TOEFL words during classes . |
| 9 | In 1937 Basil Henriques , a youth worker , magistrate and pillar of respectability , found it reasonable to excuse shop-lifting from multiple stores , for example , because they offered ‘ that most disgraceful temptation … the most attractive gadgets and toys in open trays well within the reach of children ’ . |
| 10 | He was able to extend his law to cubic and biquadratic residues , but to state his results elegantly he found it helpful to introduce numbers of the form a + pb and a + ib respectively where a , b are integers , p is a complex cube root of unity and , of course , i is the usual square root of -1 . |
| 11 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 12 | Rostov found it hard to feel sympathy for Grigoriev 's predicament . |
| 13 | Owen found it hard to keep track of all of them . |
| 14 | He dreaded his own Bible class and found it hard to keep teenagers in order . |
| 15 | The qualities of initiative , responsibility and loyalty which they demanded from the soldier were very different from the passive obedience and mechanical discipline typified by the army of Frederick II ( which , significantly , found it difficult to create units of this kind ) . |
| 16 | The two men were about the same age , nearing fifty ; both were of the lean kind with strong features and over-thin lips ; both were taciturn and found it difficult to put ideas into words . |
| 17 | I found it difficult to regain control of the beast . |
| 18 | E. J. Urwick , on the other hand , found it difficult to reconcile talk about ‘ the decline of physical energy ’ with ‘ a class of boys bursting with animal energy ’ . |
| 19 | Hungry as she was , Claudia found it difficult to do justice to the meal . |
| 20 | Likewise , Newton 's ‘ established ’ groups built up a ‘ close set ’ of relationships with public officials in Birmingham ( 1976 , p. 85 ) , while his poorly established groups found it difficult to gain access to decision-makers and thereby had to resort to demonstrations , petitions and so on which only served to make them even more unacceptable . |
| 21 | However , some did make the comment that they found it difficult to get details on the new systems . |
| 22 | However , one still hears all sorts of rumours to the effect that it is possible for others to obtain information , yet one or two of my constituents found it difficult to obtain information about the identity of a car owner involved in an accident . |
| 23 | Sheep producers , in particular , found it difficult to escape worries about continuing fixed and variable cost increases and the ending of the sheepmeat variable premium that put a floor in the market . |
| 24 | Such an open-ended commitment to a government that most Unionists regarded with contempt could hardly last for long : Law found it convenient to make use of the Unionist Business Committee , constituted in January 1915 as an official opposition group , and he suggested Walter Long as its chairman , so harnessing Long 's vindictive powers and giving the party some means of influencing the government without breaking the party truce . |
| 25 | Even Napoleon found it expedient to buttress force by prescription , having antique gems implanted in his crown and terming it the crown of Charlemagne . |
| 26 | In the public life of the former colonial power they found it gratifying to urge hatred of the alien race and of political liberalism alike . |
| 27 | This gave them a cushion of safety but often meant that the opposition found it easier to make space in midfield . |
| 28 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |
| 29 | Such an interpretation of the law of karma which may have satisfied orthodox Hindus is rejected by Gandhi out of hand , for he finds it inconceivable to divorce morality from religion . |
| 30 | There may be frequency of micturition and , in a proportion of cases , these symptoms may progress to acute retention of urine , when the hapless female finds it impossible to pass urine at all . |