Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 2 | This has made it possible to set goals for growth , under the guidance of the Holy Spirit , and to hit them . |
| 3 | Some large firms have found it impossible to match competitors ' spending : Jaguar found it could not afford the costs of developing the next generation of engines and models and was forced to sell out to Ford in 1989 for £1.6 billion . |
| 4 | It has provided a valuable structure for our thinking and discussions , but , because we have had to focus less on teachers and more on pupils , we have not found it appropriate to map programmes of study directly on to the model . |
| 5 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 6 | Staff have also found it necessary to attend children 's hearings both before and after an assessment panel . |
| 7 | At school he had always found it easy to get women . |
| 8 | I have found it important to allow pupils to find and develop their own methods of calculation , rather than require them to use standard methods . |
| 9 | BEFORE the Oakland Athletics began their American League Championship series against the Toronto Blue Jays it was said that the team had a crucial flaw : when their celebrated home-run hitters were not peppering the upper decks , the A 's supposedly found it tough to manufacture runs base by base with base hits , steals and sacrifice flies . |
| 10 | In almost every chapter and section I have found it convenient to say things about crime writing in general and sometimes the art of fiction in particular . |
| 11 | He 'd disliked anyone complimenting me and when I 'd done well in a race he 'd found it difficult to offer congratulations . |
| 12 | Breach of a civil law , in contrast to a breach of a criminal law , normally renders the person who has broken it liable to pay damages to the victim of the breach . |