Example sentences of "[vb base] it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Wha and I want it very plain to show off the wood .
2 In such circumstances I consider it quite unrealistic to expect the taxpayer to make its payments ‘ under protest . ’
3 In such circumstances I consider it quite unrealistic to expect the taxpayer to make its payments ‘ under protest . ’
4 So when you 're setting about setting up an evaluation project you consider it very important to get the co-operation of the teachers and staff involved .
5 So every time you return the carriage to the machine , tip it up first to check that nothing metallic ( pins and needles are great offenders , not to mention the double ended bodkin ) has been drawn to these magnets .
6 Will new sports find it increasingly difficult to find a place on television and will television ever again be able to nurture the growth of new sport ?
7 Is not it hard that all those measures have been placed on students at a time when they find it particularly difficult to get vacation jobs or part-time jobs in term time and when those who graduate find it increasingly difficult to get jobs to pay off the overdrafts that they have had to incur as students ?
8 Disabled people find it increasingly difficult to gain access to council housing , and homelessness among physically disabled people increased by 92 per cent between 1980 and 1986 compared with 57 per cent among all types of household ( Morris , 1988a , p. 6 ) .
9 Companies find it increasingly difficult to attract the right people in the £14,000 to £18,000 range unless they offer a car .
10 I find it equally difficult to conceive of a case where the court , faced with this problem and applying the approach I have indicated above , would authorise an abortion against the wishes of a mentally competent 16-year-old .
11 Many people at midlife find it incredibly hard to get time to sit down , let alone spend an extra hour in bed .
12 Some countries choose to import food items that they could easily grow for themselves because they find it commercially advantageous to grow industrial raw materials for export and to import the food they need , which tends to be less costly relative to their exports .
13 Artistic ethnographers also write about many subjects which sociologists find it practically difficult to investigate .
14 Every two years the Medau College holds a Whitsuntide course for Medau teachers and I always find it most stimulating to renew contact with our German colleagues .
15 The Type II model may lead to inequity between health care groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , i.e. mainly elective surgery .
16 On the other hand , Type II systems would appear to allow little scope for equity between groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , that is mainly elective surgery .
17 But they find it strangely difficult to do .
18 If one is then to try and specify the grounds upon which it would be right for the court to intervene I do not for my part find it particularly helpful to speak in terms of special or extraordinary cases as distinct from normal cases .
19 This is the reason for the high incidence of pre-menstrual tension among women who find it particularly difficult to relax or unwind .
20 Is not it hard that all those measures have been placed on students at a time when they find it particularly difficult to get vacation jobs or part-time jobs in term time and when those who graduate find it increasingly difficult to get jobs to pay off the overdrafts that they have had to incur as students ?
21 With × 7 I find it rather difficult to see .
22 Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’
23 ‘ It means that when I 'm with you I find it annoyingly hard to think straight .
24 ‘ I find it immensely satisfying to witness proof that behaviour such as yours does n't occur without penalty of some sort .
25 Initially pupils often find it far easier to compare a past picture and a present picture than to compare two pictures from different periods of the past .
26 Many people find it virtually impossible to recollect the country we were elected to change — and did change .
27 Today many people find it virtually impossible to conjure any face other than Clark Gable 's as Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind .
28 Middle-sized and smaller organisations find it truly hard to compete .
29 These categories of luck threaten the very notion of moral responsibility in that if the precondition of control is consistently applied we would be disbarred from making the wide range of moral judgments that we find it entirely natural to make .
30 Even we as practising Christians find it extremely difficult to avoid the acid of materialism .
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