Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge deemed it unconstitutionally restrictive to require that a person evaluate art by taking into consideration ‘ general standards of decency ’ . |
| 2 | He described how the Japanese used a laser beam strategy within a poorly drafted law to penetrate the European market while protecting their own domestic market behind a dynastic organisational structure which only permitted import access when the dynasty deemed it politically expedient to do so . |
| 3 | He was going to find it rather difficult to talk for a few days , Kathleen realised . |
| 4 | Despite the violence , the blood and the cloud of feathers , I was surprised to find it strangely thrilling to watch : it was like a miniature gladiator contest . |
| 5 | We expect to find it increasingly difficult to do so at short notice because our budgets are under mounting pressure . |
| 6 | People seem to find it relatively easy to understand the term/patent' , but have difficulty with ‘ copyright ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got part-time players and three or four are going to find it extremely difficult to get time off work . |
| 8 | The implications for us are that we shall have to find it very hard to ensure that we get a share of that grant to spend on implementation of the Food Safety Act . |
| 9 | One further point of possible confusion : because venture capital from investors looking for capital gains is not available to co-operatives , they are likely to find it more difficult to raise the larger sums of money needed to start capital-intensive projects . |
| 10 | Older women were least likely to be eligible because they had started working at the factory when the married women 's option ( i.e. to pay reduced NI contributions ) was in full operation and the majority had not considered it financially worthwhile to pay full contributions . |
| 11 | Until that became clear , de Gaulle regarded it as essential to keep a number of different options open . |
| 12 | Many builders do not consider it financially viable to maintain a stock of materials at a yard . |
| 13 | After bilabial consonants , in words like ‘ happen ’ , ‘ happening ’ , ‘ ribbon ’ we can consider it equally acceptable to pronounce them with syllabic ( , , ) or with ( , , ) . |
| 14 | Our patients were manifesting potentially dangerous hypoxaemia , and we did not consider it ethically appropriate to withhold this form of treatment . |
| 15 | Your employer may consider it more cost-effective to retain junior employees who are paid less than you . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , quite a lot , ’ said Jean , who found it rather hard to explain the number of duels , pursuits on horseback , quick changes of identity and narrow escapes from the authorities he had experienced by the age of twenty-four . |
| 17 | Kelly found it hilariously difficult to concentrate . |
| 18 | It is true that the establishment Whigs found it increasingly necessary to downplay the original contract and the right of resistance , and came to argue that resistance was only allowable in exceptionable circumstances , such as those of 1688 . |
| 19 | Claud however found it increasingly hard to earn because of his Communist past and it was left to Patricia to keep the various wolves from the door . |
| 20 | Very quickly he found it increasingly painful to breathe . |
| 21 | Even the most loyal officials found it increasingly difficult to defend serfdom on moral grounds . |
| 22 | The USA , however , found it increasingly difficult to remain outside the conflict . |
| 23 | Later , after Calandrini had attended the synod of Dort and finished his studies in theology under John Prideaux [ q.v. ] at Exeter College , Oxford , graduating BD in 1620 , he found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his Calvinism with De Dominis 's Catholic syncretism . |
| 24 | She went vaguely back to occasional journalism and found it increasingly difficult to sleep in the evenings and get up in the mornings . |
| 25 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 26 | Leaving school at the age of twelve , Merrick found it increasingly difficult to find employment because of his deformities , and after jobs in a cigar factory and as a haberdashery pedlar he entered the Leicester Union Workhouse in 1879 . |
| 27 | And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights . |
| 28 | The settlement houses were as active as before but showed little sign of expansion , indeed Toynbee Hall found it increasingly difficult to attract residents . |
| 29 | November had been a damp and drizzly month , bringing shorter days and causing aggravation to those people who found it increasingly difficult to travel in the blackout . |
| 30 | At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it . |