Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pursued there and besieged , they fled by night to raise a loyal army , but found it pitiful in numbers . |
| 2 | This is fine in principle , but I found it awkward in practice . |
| 3 | Part of his apparently subdued reaction to the Nobel no doubt sprang from a genuine lack of confidence in his ability to continue writing ( it was not , for him , a novel feeling ) but he also found it difficult in conversation to react to praise or flattery — like Coriolanus , he did not like to hear his " nothings monster 'd " . |
| 4 | Many who subscribed to COS principles in theory found it difficult in practice to abandon to destitution or the Poor Law many who were in desperate and immediate need . |
| 5 | They always found it natural in government . |
| 6 | Mozart and his contemporaries , who ( unlike the English ) had no continuous tradition of listening to baroque music , found it sparse in texture in a way that to them must have seemed musically primitive . |
| 7 | If Leland had gone there , he might well have described the eastern Weald as he did the Forest of Dean : ‘ more fruitful of wood and grass than corn ’ with ‘ many iron mines and forges ’ ; yet although he judged it self-sufficient in corn , Dean was very much poorer than the Weald . |
| 8 | Do n't forget to say you saw it first in Ski survey , February/March issue 1991 ! |
| 9 | She saw it all in terms of Edmund 's settlement : a brief holiday on the Riviera , and such a sum could vanish as if it had never been . |
| 10 | Police say there were rumours in the village that he had a large sum , but friends say he kept it all in bank and building society accounts . |
| 11 | Centuries ago the birds themselves chose Low Island as a sanctuary and the droppings over the years made it rich in guano — a fertiliser . |
| 12 | So , while McDonald 's is powerfully committed to its core values , it is constantly looking beyond the practices that made it successful in order to explore new opportunities . |
| 13 | Unlike a good many tough guys who made it big in movies , Marvin did n't come from a particularly tough background . |
| 14 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 15 | Last August Australia sent three naval ships to the Gulf ; Bob Hawke , the prime minister , made it clear in December that they would be put under American operational control and could well see combat . |
| 16 | Mr Fyodorov made it clear in Moscow on Thursday that Russia was desperate for the West 's help , but he also vowed to press ahead with reform with or without G7 financial assistance . |
| 17 | While Bush welcomed Yeltsin 's visit he made it clear in public remarks that relations with the new Russian leader would not be allowed to undermine " official relations " with Gorbachev . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal made it clear in Janata Bank v Ahmed ( 1981 ) that this is certainly a possibility . |
| 19 | Innocent was adamant that Lupold was unacceptable and he made it clear in June 1205 , at first secretly and later publicly , that Philip would have to drop Lupold as negotiator . |
| 20 | We did it all in black and white in a very funky sixties style ; lots of wigs , American cars and that amazing Ocean Drive background of art deco buildings . ’ |
| 21 | In a bizarre pre-election address , the Texas tycoon put it all in perspective , declaring : ’ We 're all crazies , but there are millions of crazy people in this country ! ’ |
| 22 | Though 62 per cent put APR first in importance for disclosure , only 22 per cent put it first in importance among credit terms they actually consider when they are buying . |