Example sentences of "[vb base] it [adj] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not they consider it appropriate to enter the European Eco audit systems when it appears , using the new standard will certainly give a company ( and its other clients and audiences ) confidence in the knowledge that they 're tackling environmental concerns in a systematic and integrated way . ’ |
| 2 | Lupus feared his anger and advised others not to provoke it ( " I consider it dangerous to obstruct the king 's orders " ) ; felt hurt when Charles very obviously " does n't care about the things that matter to me " ; appreciated Charles 's personally " asking me at Bourges not long ago what I felt about Predestination " ; and was well aware that Charles " has a face that he puts on when he wants to be charming " . |
| 3 | I believe it possible to analyse the role of equity in contract as functionally analogous to the role of excuses in crime . |
| 4 | My officers find it frustrating to see the same persistant thieves out and about . |
| 5 | When I attend meetings in Paris or Strasbourg at which such issues arise , I find it frustrating to hear the continuing opposition from Conservative Members , especially in the Council of Europe . |
| 6 | The reader of Language in Popular Fiction will in the main find it easy to follow the author 's witty , and in places very amusing , stylistic analysis of popfiction texts . |
| 7 | It is understandable that the public , disillusioned by what the system produces , find it easy to blame the producers . |
| 8 | We regularly have 200 worshippers singing with us and this requires quite a lot of volume from the band to lead effectively , but I never find it necessary to increase the master volume on the Marshall beyond half way . |
| 9 | Recovering gradually , the travellers find it impossible to re-activate the TARDIS 's flight systems , and even machinery that supplies food and drink , though still in action , registers ‘ Empty ’ . |
| 10 | But even given a generous approach to this construction , I find it impossible to attach the breadth of meaning to the word ‘ question ’ which the Attorney-General urges . |
| 11 | And you can not stop there , because I find it impossible to interpret the Act as meaning that the three years are to run from that date . |
| 12 | I find it impossible to comprehend the scale of this arena , and that afternoon provided a great opportunity to relax in the mountains and let them have their effect on us . |
| 13 | I find it convenient to control the ferret 's movements by putting one foot on the line . |
| 14 | Many people find it hard to counter the argument of ‘ people before buildings ’ that the Church puts forward , even though for most of us the visible presence of a church — whether still in religious use or not — is an important and reassuring symbol of faith to all who pass by . |
| 15 | In answer to that question , choice theories find it hard to resist the temptation to jump to the conclusion that all voluntary undertakings should be binding . |
| 16 | I find it hard to divide the two at any time . |
| 17 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 18 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 19 | Some doctors are so overwhelmed by their own emotions that they find it hard to handle the mother 's . |
| 20 | But where the qualification is the doing of something of value to the seller , and where the qualification only suffices for one sale and must be reacquired before another sale , I find it hard to regard the repeated acquisitions of the qualification as anything other than parts of the consideration for the sales . |
| 21 | Many , financially stretched with community care implementation , find it hard to locate the 30 per cent needed to qualify for the 7- per cent grant . |
| 22 | When technological spillovers exist , firms find it difficult to appropriate the full benefits of their research activities . |
| 23 | Because it has to be dealt with at a personal level , some find it difficult to deny the request . |
| 24 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 25 | I find it difficult to reconcile the facts found by the judge with his conclusion that the influence of the mother did not sap her will or destroy her volition . |
| 26 | Even so , it remains an inefficient way of spending funds , because in considering large numbers of new books on different subjects at the same time selectors find it difficult to judge the quality of individual works in relation to the rest of the subject literature , and difficult to take into account — except in the most superficial way — user demand for the books ' subjects . |
| 27 | Some people find it difficult to judge the probability of a given outcome , say the success of a specific development job , directly . |
| 28 | Some people find it difficult to judge the probability of a given outcome , say the success of a specific development job , directly . |
| 29 | Most rural Africans see wildlife as a relatively endless source of food and find it difficult to grasp the concept of sustainable management . |
| 30 | Even the least active holidaymakers find it difficult to resist the lure of a camel ride along the beach . |