Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adj] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Even so , businesses large and small continue to find it necessary to cut jobs .
2 She seemed to find it difficult to make friends , and the fact that she hardly ever wandered far from the house only added to her loneliness .
3 Instead of scraping them , a heavy expenditure was incurred on pumps , carts and hired labour to keep down dust levels by watering : " the mud indeed is so very deep all the winter and so fluid after rain , as to render it unsafe to meet horses , owing to their feet throwing the mud not only over an horseman 's clothes but also into his eyes " .
4 The object of the Bill is to help to clear the streets , and , for this purpose , to make it possible to charge prostitutes who ply their trade in the streets and to stiffen the penalties against them .
5 It is possible to store such an amazing amount of information , but this has to be carefully organised on the disk to make it possible to find files easily .
6 Some viewfinders are built solidly into the camcorder body while others are adjustable to make it easier to take shots at awkward angles .
7 To make it easier to obtain sub-trees , the children of any node i ( the nodes j for which P(j) = i ) can be listed .
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