Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , businesses large and small continue to find it necessary to cut jobs . |
| 2 | She seemed to find it difficult to make friends , and the fact that she hardly ever wandered far from the house only added to her loneliness . |
| 3 | What it would mean is that we would consider it immoral to treat animals as if they had no intrinsic value , as if they were of instrumental value only , merely means to human ends . |
| 4 | I found it impossible to make relationships , I was one hell of a mess . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When Richard Earl of Cornwall was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1257 he found it useful to have cameos and intaglios dating from Classical antiquity inserted in his crown as well as precious stones ( fig.36 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I often found it necessary to reprimand students for learning their TOEFL words during classes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He dreaded his own Bible class and found it hard to keep teenagers in order . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Julia , who when nervous found it difficult to see things clearly , started the long haul down the lilac carpet . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He found it difficult to get consultants interested in community care because it was only one on a long list of issues . |
| 17 | However , some did make the comment that they found it difficult to get details on the new systems . |
| 18 | I found it difficult to get cuttings to root in earlier years , but I discovered that by starting them in water for 10 days , then potting up , I lost very few . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Despite the opportunities opened out from the late eighteenth century by an expanding grain trade , a marked increase in the land available , and a steady rise in labour and money dues extracted from the peasantry , the nobility found it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 21 | Gorge and Mary Webster eventually had another twelve children and found it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 22 | Instead of scraping them , a heavy expenditure was incurred on pumps , carts and hired labour to keep down dust levels by watering : " the mud indeed is so very deep all the winter and so fluid after rain , as to render it unsafe to meet horses , owing to their feet throwing the mud not only over an horseman 's clothes but also into his eyes " . |
| 23 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 24 | This has made it possible to set goals for growth , under the guidance of the Holy Spirit , and to hit them . |
| 25 | The abolition of exchange controls has made it harder to track flows of cash in and out of the country . |
| 26 | Last year 's stockmarket crash has made it harder to issue equities . |
| 27 | Doctors and other health experts consider it wise to safeguard infants by giving supplementary vitamins . |
| 28 | That measure is not considered controversial on either side of the House ; my party finds it easy to support ballots . |
| 29 | Using dictionaries does n't itself teach people how to spell ; but someone whose spelling is uncertain finds it hard to use dictionaries at all . |
| 30 | Holland , most of it lying at or below sea-level , finds it hard to dig holes for waste . |