Example sentences of "find it possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only later were , was one to find it possible to develop a small comedy action or a small dramatic action on the screen , this would be around nineteen hundred and three , four , five , about five or six years from the beginning , that films of this sort would make . |
| 2 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 3 | It was also surprising to hear that so many found it possible to stick to this diet when normally they found themselves lacking in the willpower department . |
| 4 | Through the AC30 I found it possible to find some pretty convincing old Phantom sounds , ramming home to me the fact that if you can put up with the tuning hassles , a 12-string is still one of the best guitars to use for rhythm . |
| 5 | Joint stock companies found it possible to grow larger by issuing new shares to increase their capital , and mergers and takeovers saw the average size of firms grow . |
| 6 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 7 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 8 | One by one they came , and we on board Viking found it possible to grab their long shaggy fleeces and hoist them over the gunwale . |
| 9 | It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength . |
| 10 | But beneath it she understood , accepted , found it far easier to hate him , when he fought her back to the bed , than to ignore him ; the bitings and scratchings of anger coming near enough to passion so that when he entered her again she found it possible , in her loathing , her detestation , her bitter resentment , to wrap her own strong , hard limbs about him in a grip designed to wound and crush him but which could also excite . |
| 11 | Seated beneath a standard lamp , glass in hand , impressionist art on the wall and thick floor-length curtains closed against the night , he found it possible to believe he was almost anywhere but where he really was . |
| 12 | I was on a local council for some years that thought it was well run , but we still found it possible to get rid of a tier of management . |
| 13 | I was deeply disappointed that neither the hon. Member for Tooting , in a 40-minute speech , nor the hon. Member for Hammersmith , except in an intervention , found it possible to acknowledge the contribution made by housing associations . |
| 14 | However , as he found it possible to reformulate it in terms of his own engineering type of mathematics ( which is not ) , he did not challenge it . |
| 15 | Theologians have generally found it possible to hold together belief in the fulness of God in Christ and belief in the unchangeable perfection of the divine nature . |
| 16 | He would not have found it possible to gamble deeply or to accumulate more debt . |
| 17 | Although he has not been able to cure it , he has found it possible to slow the disease down so that it stabilises , banishing the symptoms to allow the fish to grow and feed . |
| 18 | I offer as an example some of my own Inspector Ghote novels , particularly the early ones , since I have found it possible in recent years to shift , as it were , Ghote 's character into higher , more serious gear . |
| 19 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 20 | Pelseneer ( 1926 ) considered the broadest specimens to be females but most authors have not found it possible to determine the sex of living animals on the basis of shell form or body colour , although the largest individuals are usually females ( see , for example , Feare , 1970c ; osborne , 1977 ; Palmer , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | I am sorry that the Minister has not found it possible to agree with the reasonable amendment . |
| 22 | I am grateful that , on this occasion at least , the hon. Gentleman has found it possible to welcome at least some of the proposals in the White Paper . |
| 23 | Viewing the accounts of parish overseers with their detailed entries of small payments for a range of needs , some historians have found it possible to write approvingly of a Poor Law which was sensitive to local needs and did not deal in bread alone . |
| 24 | Of course , those who , like Bishop Blougram , find it possible to share and even sympathise with the intellectual misgivings of the unbeliever , do not easily waver in their understanding . |
| 25 | He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers . |
| 26 | Many young women find it possible to love two men simultaneously . |
| 27 | The manager at both secondary- and primary-school level , would , when that development is complete , find it possible to adapt to school use recommendations about the wholesale management and regearing of both policy and practice which is needed in FE in order to create a comprehensive setting for the introduction of new vocational qualifications ( Haffenden and Brown 1989 ) . |
| 28 | It seems to allow that , although we must begin and end with appearances , we might find it possible and advantageous in doing so to interpose conjectures about their hidden causes . |
| 29 | Should other two-letter codes appear , you will find it possible to continue typing . |
| 30 | In my view this book would deprave and corrupt young children and I draw your attention in the sincere hope that you will find it possible to take action against the publishers . |