Example sentences of "find it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We find it offensive . ’ |
| 2 | Again , women well know what it is like to be treated as children and they find it offensive . |
| 3 | It would therefore be reasonable to consider whether children find it offensive to be treated like children . |
| 4 | And besides which , I find it disgusting . |
| 5 | But historical scholarship gives this notion the lie : since the form was originally prescribed for sexist reasons , feminists who find it sexist are hardly projecting some novel and bizarre interpretation onto an innocent and neutral rule . |
| 6 | I find it sad that Jeremy Bates and Jo Durie , Britain 's number one tennis players do not apparently feel the same way . |
| 7 | I find it sad that Jeremy Bates and Jo Durie , Britain 's number one tennis players , will not be at the Olympics |
| 8 | I FIND it sad that certain players feel the necessity to change clubs for the furtherance of their rugby careers . |
| 9 | For that matter , I find it sad that Arbroath smokies , the most delicate , expensive and rare of all the smoked haddock tribe , should be subjected to such treatment . |
| 10 | I find it sad that the business of getting practitioners , medical or alternative , to provide evidence of the efficacy of the treatments they use is left largely to consumer organisations , and to a financially hard pressed charity like HealthWatch , which has to step in where the professionals seem afraid to tread . |
| 11 | But frankly I find it bloody embarrassing ! ’ |
| 12 | Some dealers find it hilarious when clients take their investments so seriously that they investigate the OTC companies personally . |
| 13 | In the late twentieth century artists working in performance pose difficulties for the critic , though some observers find it refreshing rather than troublesome to consider work beyond the easel picture and the individual sculpture . |
| 14 | I find it refreshing . ’ |
| 15 | I find it refreshing that you do n't talk in the same artsy , pretentious way as some of my sister 's friends — and my friends too , if I 'm honest . |
| 16 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |
| 17 | ‘ I prefer this means of transport because I find it consonant with a certain feeling I have about myself — because it expresses a certain style of being that I find congenial — because I find the kinaesthetic sensations it affords , even the physical efforts and nervous tension , somehow involving . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Many young women find it possible to love two men simultaneously . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | We find it odd , even offensive , if a boat looks like a teapot and at best quaint when a teapot looks like a boat . |
| 23 | Many parents of grown-up children find it odd , not to say unfair , that while their children are allowed to vote , their pekingeses ( or other dogs ) are not . |
| 24 | ‘ In using the neuter term rather than the particular I display clearly my own lack of involvement , and you find it odd ! |
| 25 | ‘ You find it odd for me to talk of fate , neh ? ’ |
| 26 | I find it odd that the position has so changed compared with 15 months ago when I became Secretary of State , when some Conservative Members were alleging that standards had declined and Opposition Members were denying those allegations . |
| 27 | I find it odd when it is suggested that it would be better for other people to grow the tobacco and for us to import it — as though that would help the health of the Community . |
| 28 | I believe the ‘ Express ’ to be a poem of great beauty and I find it tender although strange in approach . |
| 29 | Erm , the financial elements I find complex , I 'm sure from discussions with various members , they equally find it complex , but the position is , that in the current year , you have been given access to a specific grant . |
| 30 | This is a topic that some who visit the elderly find extremely boring , just as others find it fascinating . |