Example sentences of "[noun] find it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventy-nine per cent felt that Banking World was informative and 63% found it particularly interesting . |
| 2 | Since Plato ( dreamed that he ) saw Socrates most days , and this was among the most vivid and consistent of all his experiences ( dreams ? ) , and since Socrates said things which he , Plato , had not thought of before and which sometimes surprised him , Plato found it most consistent and convenient to ’ believe ’ that Socrates really did exist . |
| 3 | Once over the first fright of finding out that this was an unconventional arrangement , Alexandra found it less surprising that her mother should have married her father , than vice versa . |
| 4 | Once embarked upon the fabrication of an imaginary dinner party , Alexandra found it quite easy . |
| 5 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 6 | Kelly found it hilariously difficult to concentrate . |
| 7 | Even the snails found it too wet for comfort … climbing fifteen feet up house walls to escape . |
| 8 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 9 | When this government talks about safety nets for those in need , I tend to look six inches below ground level to find it often the G M B is the only safety net above the ground which leads me to my second word we do this because we care we care about our country our economy , and our people . |
| 10 | Ann found it very difficult to tell , just as she had found it difficult to fathom out the workings of Martha 's mind in the days before she and her twin were married . |
| 11 | In its frosty , stunned isolation , his mind found it quite natural to be out in the wind in this remote place , waiting for a disembodied voice . |
| 12 | In practice , many clergy found it as difficult to collect the full tithes as the Inland Revenue and Excise do their latter-day exactions ; increasingly the payments were commuted for cash rather than kind . |
| 13 | All the kids found it highly amusing when I had to climb up and fetch her . |
| 14 | This is a peculiarly steep region , so much so in fact that the snow finds it more than usually difficult to stay where it has fallen ; there have been some sadly famous avalanches near Luz , the hamlets of Chéze and Saligos which you pass as you come in from the north both having been smothered and destroyed in their time . |
| 15 | Brasshats do , and , seemingly , leaders of nations find it utterly impossible . |
| 16 | Once in the city the time-travellers find it far from dead . |
| 17 | The mind finds it much easier to work upon something than to cast around in a search . |
| 18 | Many people at midlife find it incredibly hard to get time to sit down , let alone spend an extra hour in bed . |
| 19 | Schools find it quite easy to adapt to this kind of grouping where they are dealing with ‘ marginal ’ subjects like music theory . |
| 20 | Erm I think the , the point that 's being made here is that even within the defined areas of authority given to him by the constitution , the president finds it very difficult to act unless certain specific conditions are met . |
| 21 | A preliminary exploratory questionnaire study made it clear that subjects find it very difficult to give accident figures unless they have some anchors for their estimates . |
| 22 | Our judges found it very hard to choose the winners — the entries were all so good . |
| 23 | As it turned out , parents found it best to ask Olwyn which one of the four rewards on the menu she preferred on any successful night . |
| 24 | My mother was very kind — she was very fond of music , of Wagner in particular — but I do n't think our parents found it very easy to understand my brother and myself , especially as we had our own private language which no one could work out . |
| 25 | It had been most enjoyable with a tremendous amount of flying : I had been in every part of the Command — Persia as it was in those days , down the Gulf and all the way round the Gulf to Bahrain , Salalah , I took part in the search for the Imperial Airways Argosy airliner City of Glasgow that landed on the beach and was literally lost for a couple of days before one of the Shaihah crews found it away down beyond Sulwah Wells . |
| 26 | Any judge faced with cases of this type found it very difficult because whatever the decision , somebody was going to be grievously hurt . |
| 27 | If the experimenter found it then he kept it , and if he did not find it the child got the chocolate . |
| 28 | Despite the promise of great ornithological rewards if he stayed , Gould found it immensely difficult to remain inactive while there was so much work to be done . |
| 29 | The settlement houses were as active as before but showed little sign of expansion , indeed Toynbee Hall found it increasingly difficult to attract residents . |
| 30 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |