Example sentences of "[vb base] it [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well no it does n't , get it right see that 's the station |
| 2 | Many young women find it possible to love two men simultaneously . |
| 3 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 4 | I find it easy to do electrical repairs , e.g. mending fuses/fitting plugs |
| 5 | are friendly and find it easy to establish good rapport with others |
| 6 | Military commanders find it essential to have alternative objectives . |
| 7 | Besides , once they 've gone into mourning , they find it cheaper to stay that way . |
| 8 | All I can say in my defence is that at this point in history , I find it useful to do two things with my own writing and speech . |
| 9 | Many students find it useful to spend two or three minutes drawing a key words map for the questions they intend to answer . |
| 10 | Some find it useful to have extra pockets on a rucksack as useful organisers , others regard them as a hindrance . |
| 11 | ‘ I find it useful to recite calming verse in moments of great stress . ’ |
| 12 | With industries and jobs disappearing around them as they still try to find their way in the new Germany , many east Germans find it comforting to enjoy some harmless fun where , for once , they get the upper hand . |
| 13 | it is possible to write large and use the camera to reduce the size , but I find it better to do all artwork at the finished size because thin lines tend to disappear on reduction . |
| 14 | Most people who have sex outside marriage still find it necessary to invoke some powerful excuse for it — even to themselves … |
| 15 | Find it necessary to check these Inroads " . |
| 16 | Those who embark on this deeper , marketing-centred analysis find it necessary to separate this process from the regular tactical use of the database for sales mailings . |
| 17 | Farmers near towns , for example , usually find it necessary to pay higher wages in order to obtain sufficient workers , yet farmers near towns do not receive higher prices for their produce . |
| 18 | I personally find it repulsive to handle dead creatures or to ‘ gut ’ them for cooking , but it is not an attitude to commend in professionals like surgeons , veterinarians , nurses , forensic and medical scientists , service and police personnel , even mortuary attendants , undertakers , and butchers , who will regularly need to perform far more unsavoury tasks with equanimity . |
| 19 | Perhaps the other men you know find it stimulating to hear such words come from the face of a woman who has the beauty of a madonna , but I do not . ’ |
| 20 | Some find it helpful to reflect last thing at night as a prayerful self-examination e.g. |
| 21 | Although it was not a linear , chronological development and neat labels as always ‘ tidy up ’ a complex phenomenon , I find it helpful to distinguish two currents : a ‘ dominance ’ current and a ‘ difference ’ current . |
| 22 | And I think that even patients with lung cancer find it impossible to smo , stop smoking That is , perhaps , not so important , but what is much more important is that their families find it impossible to stop smoking ! |
| 23 | Secondly , I find it impossible to accept that general practice is a specialty . |
| 24 | More often than not no-one bothers about the height factor , with the result that the speaker may have to peer at his notes or stand awkwardly or otherwise find it impossible to combine proper use of the mike with proper use of the lectern . |
| 25 | Some newly-weds find it beneficial to have one small piece of Romans 12:21 ready to hand as an emergency procedure : 'Overcome evil with good . ' |
| 26 | The specialization of farms and the mechanization of production have , however , vastly reduced the perquisites which farm workers receive — milk and potatoes are the only significant produce and by no means all farms find it convenient to make these and other small quantities of food available . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , even today , many frogs and toads find it advantageous to follow this strategy . |
| 28 | Finally , there are political reasons : people do not , on the whole , enjoy moving away from their communities and politicians find it hard to ignore these feelings . |
| 29 | Those who have campaigned on behalf of Wallenberg find it hard to believe that , in a bureaucratic system like the Soviet Union 's , a file on the missing Swede is not somewhere . |
| 30 | ‘ I find it hard to believe that . ’ |