Example sentences of "find it [adj] " in BNC.

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31 At this time the nurse may find it possible to gauge whether the patient is anxious and if so what the source(s) of this anxiety may be .
32 It was stated that solicitors would not find it possible to prepare the written briefs , and that it would be unfair to expect them to do so .
33 Suppliers operating in industrial markets dominated by a small number of large companies may find it possible to base their annual and long term forecasts on the expected purchases of these customers .
34 ‘ Perhaps then , ’ said Viola , whose lips were still set in a Gladstonian expression , ‘ you will find it possible to bring my grandchildren along for me to have a look at . ’
35 Unfortunately , although the case for the benefits of the retrospective conversion of the Library 's General Catalogue was accepted , SOED did not find it possible to fund the project in 1991–92 .
36 These were debated at length but the actuarial profession did not find it possible to support them .
37 You may very well find it possible yet to send them home again in the very minted pieces in which they left home with the lady . ’
38 I hope that he will find it possible to allow extra ranks to be recruited all the way along the line — not only at the most junior level — to ensure that we do not lose those very able people .
39 I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for .
40 It does seem to me an extraordinary catalogue of errors erm and one can well understand how errors take p er could , could have occurred during the somewhat co chaotic passage of the Railways Bill er what , what can not be understood and what is quite inexcusable is , is the fact that no steps adequate steps have been taken to correct those errors and to assure the er continued existence of a er Transport Police which er h h has the sole responsibility for er policing large public spaces in , in this country and er as the Noble Lord has made clear , er does it honour er very considerable scale , very effectively er I hope that the Minister will find it possible to make a favourable reply to the arguments which have been raised .
41 Some ( especially readers in Europe and America ) will find it idiosyncratic and perhaps even objectionable , but I believe that it is consistent with the work of a small forum of English reviewers , scholars and performers whose work will be discussed in due course below .
42 If you have influenced others in the past by being enthusiastic and emotional , you may find it uncomfortable to start using logic .
43 A local authority may therefore find it preferable in the case of transient odours to serve a prohibition notice under s.1 of the Public Health ( Recurring Nuisances ) Act 1969 .
44 For lighting large areas , you may instead find it preferable to ‘ warm up ’ the daylight by taping sheets of orange filter material over the windows .
45 When the above entry is printed out according to the SIL MANUSCRIPT ( MS ) programme it appears like this : Many people will find it preferable to type the words of their dictionary in alphabetical order so that the computer prints them out in alphabetical order without further programming .
46 Watching the cuisinières during the early stages , there was no obvious clue as to why anyone should find it necessary to draw a theoretical distinction between male and female chefs .
47 He does n't find it necessary to ‘ dry hop ’ the beer — that is adding hops to each finished cask .
48 He did not apparently find it necessary to explain the reasons for this sexist-sounding conclusion .
49 Lenin did not find it necessary to discuss the issue in his elaboration of the party programme in 1895–6 .
50 It was , said Mrs Thatcher , when she informed Cabinet colleagues of her decision to stand down , a ‘ funny old world ’ in which a Prime Minister with her record of electoral success should find it necessary to resign .
51 They did , however have unrealised expectations about the number of clients for whom they would need to provide paid support workers even though they predicted that they would not find it necessary to provide such carers for ail clients .
52 This naturally applies also to specific medical words , and when they are used , the nurse may find it necessary to correct inaccuracies and add explanations .
53 You will probably find it necessary to apply some negative pitch at the top of the loop to do this ( Fig. 9.1 ) .
54 But if we begin from situations in which the community does not find it necessary to impose standards , we find , in the very simplest cases , full confidence and agreement in evaluating , untroubled by worries over differences of taste .
55 With such value placed on professional success these days , even very close friends may find it necessary ( whether true or not ) to indicate that they are ‘ very busy ’ .
56 The routine at this stage never varied It was unlikely that he would find it necessary to leave his office until the time came to visit the missing girl 's parents and in the meantime he was capable of giving the usual orders while half asleep — which he very nearly was , having been called from his bed not much after five in the morning .
57 Moreover , few types of resource-based learning are as clearcut as perhaps they sound to the newcomer ; there is always the possibility , indeed the likelihood , that at any one point the teacher may find it necessary to intervene , to establish a point , to correct a set of errors , to reinforce an insight , or to bring in an additional set of experiences , including the experience of argument and group debate while the interest is hot .
58 I do not find it necessary to reach any conclusion on the question whether a local authority can be guilty of corruption .
59 Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood .
60 Their Lordships do not find it necessary for present purposes to examine the question what element of mens rea is required as an ingredient of the offences …
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