Example sentences of "[verb] found it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have seen , in recent years Persil has found it increasingly difficult to sustain its traditional whiteness claim — which it was allowed to make 30 years ago whether it was true or not . |
| 2 | One detective said : ‘ The girl is absolutely distraught and has found it very difficult to remember much about her attacker . |
| 3 | He has been ill recently and has found it very hard to cope with his children . |
| 4 | It must now face the imperial impotence that Britain has found it so difficult to adapt to . |
| 5 | The United Nations has found it much easier to undertake a peacekeeping role since the end of the cold war because its efforts are no longer frustrated by the clash between the super-powers . |
| 6 | Twenty-five percent of the respondents would have found it very easy to attend , 61% would have found it fairly easy , while only 14% would have found it difficult to attend . |
| 7 | If I did not believe that the answer to these questions was in each case a resounding yes I would have found it very difficult to give these lectures . |
| 8 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |
| 9 | He seems to have found it more difficult to extrapolate remote , romantic adventures from the complex , changing world of the 1920s and after than Anthony Hope found it to transport a late-Victorian man-about-town to a small Central European kingdom . |
| 10 | But on the whole once I 've got talking it 's been very successful , and people are always amazed at what they do remember in great detail about how they got things , why they got them , when they got them , and I think by and large the people that I have talked to have found it very interesting to do for themselves as well as for me . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've found it increasingly difficult to attract youngsters into the game because of the success of , and publicity for , rugby league here , ’ Des Seabrook , coach of Orrell and Lancashire , said . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I 've found it very hard to relax because of the pressures . |
| 13 | Her mother had once remarked that it was her opinion that Harry had actually caused Nathan 's idiocy in a fit of temper soon after he was born , and through whispered gossip over the years she had guessed that Tristram had become the focus of conflict between his parents and that he had found it increasingly necessary to defend both Nathan and his mother against his father 's violent outbursts of temper . |
| 14 | Reports suggested that Rathore had found it increasingly difficult to co-operate with the AJK President , Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan of the Moslem Conference , a party closely allied to the Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) -dominated government of Pakistan [ see p. 37653 ] . |
| 15 | Over a period of 18 months , Cox had found it increasingly difficult to front the cost of her supplies . |
| 16 | As they approached , the prince had found it almost impossible to tell the one from the other . |
| 17 | I had found it really gratifying to hear from a variety of people of the high regard held for our staff . |
| 18 | In , his reading aloud had proved to be successful except for a couple of occasions when he had had a particularly stressful day and had found it exceedingly difficult to relax . |
| 19 | ‘ It is n't every man who approves of women having ambition , ’ Ashley remarked a touch cryptically — for when she had been made a director several of her male colleagues had found it very hard to handle . |
| 20 | He had grown up with the impression that women 's motives were suspect , and so when Tom Rooney had given him advice he had found it so easy to believe , because it was what — subconsciously — he expected . |
| 21 | It was as if they had found it too difficult to bridge the gap between simple experimental systems and the complexity of nature — as if the reductionism of the experimental method lost the holist qualities of the integrated complex whole that these distinguished ecologists saw in natural vegetation . |
| 22 | Sadly , it has been all too often the case that it is precisely in this area that individuals and agencies have found it most difficult to co-operate . |
| 23 | Human experimenters have found it surprisingly difficult to put bats off their stride by playing loud artificial ultrasound at them . |
| 24 | For an industry that is one of the biggest single employers in this country though , times have been hard during 1991/92 and businesses country-wide have found it increasingly difficult to continue the level of graduate recruitment . |
| 25 | In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core . |
| 26 | At the same time , however , the parties have found it increasingly difficult to build and sustain popular confidence in their capacity to ‘ solve the country 's problems ’ , as these problems have become more acute and intractable . |
| 27 | We have found it particularly important to develop candidate materials to explain the additional assessment in language suitable for our trainees . |
| 28 | For some years Amnesty International has gazed with envy at those charities and voluntary organizations that have found it relatively easy to attract donations and sponsorship of events from companies . |
| 29 | Even recent Conservative governments have found it extremely difficult to make real reductions in public spending . |
| 30 | No wonder investigators have found it more profitable to examine this problem in animals , where it is much easier to programme experience and ensure that only single events are studied without the influence of others . |