Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
| 2 | Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach . |
| 3 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 4 | Although law reform was at hand , the government found it politic in 1977 to set up a Home Office Committee on Obscenity , Indecency , Violence and Film Censorship under the Chairmanship of the Cambridge Professor of Philosophy , Bernard Williams . |
| 5 | Invaluable experience , of course , but I found it frustrating in that , so often , I was n't able to see cases right through . ’ |
| 6 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 7 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 8 | Because the development officer in Ipswich was not able to see these institutionalised clients in their own homes she understandably found it hard in many cases to say whether or not she agreed with the decision that they should not return home . |
| 9 | She says , ‘ I found it difficult at first having to relinquish the coaching responsibilities , but it was great working with Rob . |
| 10 | Celia hoped they were still loyal enough to be decently enthusiastic , even if they found it difficult at first to appreciate the new subtlety of Yorick 's music . |
| 11 | As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew all about calories , but I really enjoyed food and found it difficult to lost weight ! |
| 13 | For obvious reasons , many of the Dutch settlers in Cape Town found it expedient under English rule to become anglicized , although those who had moved inland maintained their national identity . |
| 14 | In his tract justifying the activities of the Commons in the Parliament of 1701 , when the Tories had made a number of attacks on the policies of the Court Whigs , culminating in the attempted impeachment of some of the Junto Lords , the High Anglican Tory , James Drake , found it plausible in one place to quote Algernon Sidney in support of his argument about the rights of the lower House ; the tract as a whole , however , makes it clear that Drake can in no way be considered a convert to Sidney 's particular brand of radical Whiggery . |
| 15 | SUPERMAN Derek Kaye leapt into action when a trailer loaded with a car ran over his godson — and lifted it clear with ONE hand . |
| 16 | He had worked so long on it and filled it full of malicious remarks at Gina 's expense . |
| 17 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
| 18 | He felt it necessary in any case to establish himself on campus before leaving for Cyprus , in order to avoid arousing suspicion among his university colleagues , and to connect with the Fulbright Commission , which administered its scholarship programme through offices in American embassies overseas . |
| 19 | So yesterday 's record-beating export figure only covered trade with the world outside the EC and few analysts thought it worthy of much analysis . |
| 20 | Admittedly there was only a single bed but that was fine by us ; we kept it warm for each other as we were doing shifts of two hours each . |
| 21 | She turned to the door and flung it open with one contemptuous move . |
| 22 | The tax would not come into force until approved by member governments , however , and the Commission also made it conditional on other industrialized countries , notably the USA , agreeing to similar measures . |
| 23 | He was well-read and clever , and he made it easy for stupid men to respect his intellect if he thought they could be of use to him . |
| 24 | These peaks and troughs made it impossible for developing countries to plan ahead . |
| 25 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 26 | This made it impossible for those who did advance reform proposals , such as Panin under Catherine II and Pahlen under Alexander I , to organize united pressure upon the Tsar to compromise his authority . |
| 27 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 28 | No mourners followed but an unmarked car appeared in the road and made it impossible for any vehicle to tail the hearse . |
| 29 | It was this same moral , ethical dimension which finally , after September 1939 , made it impossible for Nizan to remain working within the ranks of that same party . |
| 30 | The military crisis of the early 1740s ( see pp. 290ff ) made it impossible for this situation to continue . |