Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , given the severe limitations of freedom of speech planned in the future fascist state , Mosley deemed it necessary to protect that liberty by providing more rigorous stewarding of public meetings to prevent them being broken up by left-wing activists . |
| 2 | ‘ Since your family has fled the palace , ’ Richard of Gloucester continued evenly , ‘ I deemed it wise to install Your Grace elsewhere . |
| 3 | He deemed it unwise to push the matter while she was clearly still in a state of emotional shock . |
| 4 | They had inherited a large number of hire schemes , and sometimes ( particularly for cookers in working class areas ) found it economic to continue these . |
| 5 | She also found it intolerable to have her husband 's old girlfriends around . |
| 6 | Obviously the detailed nature of these checks depends on the material submitted , but we found it invaluable to look at the output from these checks before looking at the coursework itself . |
| 7 | I was deeply disappointed that neither the hon. Member for Tooting , in a 40-minute speech , nor the hon. Member for Hammersmith , except in an intervention , found it possible to acknowledge the contribution made by housing associations . |
| 8 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 9 | Joint stock companies found it possible to grow larger by issuing new shares to increase their capital , and mergers and takeovers saw the average size of firms grow . |
| 10 | Through the AC30 I found it possible to find some pretty convincing old Phantom sounds , ramming home to me the fact that if you can put up with the tuning hassles , a 12-string is still one of the best guitars to use for rhythm . |
| 11 | I was on a local council for some years that thought it was well run , but we still found it possible to get rid of a tier of management . |
| 12 | One by one they came , and we on board Viking found it possible to grab their long shaggy fleeces and hoist them over the gunwale . |
| 13 | However , as he found it possible to reformulate it in terms of his own engineering type of mathematics ( which is not ) , he did not challenge it . |
| 14 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 15 | It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength . |
| 16 | Seated beneath a standard lamp , glass in hand , impressionist art on the wall and thick floor-length curtains closed against the night , he found it possible to believe he was almost anywhere but where he really was . |
| 17 | It was also surprising to hear that so many found it possible to stick to this diet when normally they found themselves lacking in the willpower department . |
| 18 | The German middle classes and the German Catholics in particular knew that the Prussian Poles were no great threat to the state , yet in spite of their protests , the Junker-dominated Government found it essential to work through crude Völkisch opinion to maintain itself and divert the impending revolution . |
| 19 | Added to the simple foundation for it , there was the more complex one that he somehow found it essential to hide his wound about Bella from notice . |
| 20 | Familiar with his usual belligerent stance , Matthew found it strange to see the brash , self-confident businessman reduced to the kind of helplessness he was now displaying . |
| 21 | When she got the erm paper off in the erm er er in the hall , she found it all fell apart . |
| 22 | Peter found it therapeutic to go through the boxes . |
| 23 | By the late 1980s , Brazilian inflation had created such a thriving ( and openly tolerated ) black market in foreign currency that some multinationals found it worthwhile to exceed the 12 per cent limit . |
| 24 | When she went to bed she found it impossible to sleep , and started thinking about her ex-boyfriend and about the paperwork that awaited her the next day . |
| 25 | The kitten was soon curled up , snoring contentedly , but Robbie found it impossible to sleep . |
| 26 | Afraid to be alone , Leonora nevertheless found it impossible to sleep with the large figure of Penry Vaughan beside her bed . |
| 27 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 28 | Marriage was forbidden in their contracts too , but so many of the so-called babes broke the rule during the season that Amy found it impossible to replace them ; not having a large pool of dancers back in Britain she decided to bring the unmarried ones back after the first year 's contract was completed . |
| 29 | Sadly , Ransome found it impossible to carry through . |
| 30 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |