Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAC also sees it as important to educate the new plant team in the philosophy of the company — ie economics , social and environmental concerns . |
| 2 | The involvement of Americans is significant in that Grattan sees it as important to learn from their country 's experience of conquering linguistic " barbarism " within " her vast alien immigrant population " . |
| 3 | He was even more baffled when he tried to convert some of his Duchy property in Kennington into small units for single teenagers — a group that finds it notoriously difficult to find accommodation — and met with vociferous local anger . |
| 4 | Attending the performance of a pastiche Jacobean tragedy , she attempts to incorporate lines from this play into the evidence she is piecing together , but then finds it utterly impossible to locate any edition which would confirm the lines she heard . |
| 5 | It is when there are two diners present , even when one of them is one 's own employer , that one finds it most difficult to achieve that balance between attentiveness and the illusion of absence that is essential to good waiting ; it is in this situation that one is rarely free of the suspicion that one 's presence is inhibiting the conversation . |
| 6 | As a matter of fact she finds it quite hard to teach more than one group at a time , and many children spend part of the day on low-supervision activities or ‘ busy-work ’ , which does n't really move their thinking on . |
| 7 | The mind finds it much easier to work upon something than to cast around in a search . |
| 8 | Since boards of directors tend to be unsympathetic to such questions , the personnel manager generally finds it more expedient to adopt an imaginative approach to the information he supplies . |
| 9 | Maybe , now that Liam is a toddler , he finds it more difficult to remain patient . |
| 10 | JOHN PRESCOTT did not go to university , was never a television presenter , and finds it exceedingly difficult to complete a grammatically correct sentence . |
| 11 | As we saw in the first chapter , an adult with this sort of emotional history finds it very hard to deal with separation of any sort . |
| 12 | The promising entrepreneur finds it very hard to compete with multinationals , which can always outproduce him and undercut his prices because of the very scale of their operations and capital . |
| 13 | But the commitment of governments was to the gold standard and free trade and , in 1922 , Baldwin reflected that , ‘ a free trade country , such as we are still , finds it very difficult to argue with a country that has a tariff weapon in its hand . ’ |
| 14 | The mother sometimes finds it very difficult to give away an almost impossible to keep child and the child , when grown up , may think about why their mother gave them away . |
| 15 | Erm I think the , the point that 's being made here is that even within the defined areas of authority given to him by the constitution , the president finds it very difficult to act unless certain specific conditions are met . |
| 16 | But what people in general feel about the situation Howard finds it very difficult to determine . |
| 17 | Her solicitor , James Littlehales said : ‘ She 's very very distressed and finds it very difficult to understand how her daughter could do such a thing . |
| 18 | I have a very observant Afrikaans friend , a medical doctor , also a great admirer of Mr.X , who maintains that all top-class golfers walk on the insides of their feet , thus enabling them to maintain the right shin post without effort , as against the bandy-legged player , who finds it very difficult to keep his right knee firm on the backswing . |
| 19 | Now Michael Portillo is one of the Tory high flyers , for anyone that do n't know who he is , he 's a Tory high flyer who finds it very difficult to look down , very difficult to look down on those but he should look down before he makes a such statements . |
| 20 | On the other hand the modern world , which finds it so difficult to deal with evil , nearly always treats the Devil as a figure of fun if it rejects the monster personification . |
| 21 | In our depth interviews , for example ( Appendix II , section 5 ) , there was the man in trouble with the court already who could therefore not get HP — and who bought the settee he wanted with a trading check instead ( even costlier to repay ) , though he doubted his ability to pay it off and was still making payments through the court ; and the woman with so many debts to pay off , afraid of the ‘ loan man 's ’ visit because she finds it so hard to say no to his offers . |
| 22 | For psychology , … the question of its essence , or ( more modestly ) of its concept , also puts in question the very existence of the psychologist to the extent that , being unable to declare exactly what he is , he finds it extremely difficult to answer for what he does . |
| 23 | Jeffrey , 19 , of Woodcock Close , Bankfields , Eston , Middlesbrough , a maths student at Warwick University , says he finds it almost impossible to manage . |
| 24 | For example , his mother finds it almost impossible to prepare Veronica 's tea , which she likes to feed to the child , because John empties cupboards upstairs , turns on taps , climbs on top of the wardrobe , hangs from the banisters and shouts at the top of his voice . |
| 25 | In cases of phonological dyslexia , the patient finds it almost impossible to read any word with which he or she was unfamiliar prior to brain injury . |
| 26 | For instance , he finds it almost impossible to speak on the telephone . |
| 27 | It seems a fair bet that Joe Public finds it as hard to feel sorry for rodents as Winston Smith did , and though these lobotomised specimens were of the cuter white kind , it was possibly to watch this sequence without feeling many qualms . |
| 28 | Rather the contrary : in Britain a wastesite operator who finds it too expensive to meet the rules can simply hand in his licence and walk away from the site . |
| 29 | He thinks it plainly better to insist that when a statute is deeply unclear it can not be the source of as-if legal rights at all , that the right rule is whichever rule is best for the future . |
| 30 | On appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal , the solicitor for the College argued that the mere fact of consulting a solicitor renders it reasonably practicable to present a claim in time . |