Example sentences of "find it [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been lucky to see it in Vogue and to find it available in Harrods . |
| 2 | When the book was nearing publication , a scientist who was sent an advance copy to review for Nature magazine was appalled to find it full of errors , with misplaced and erroneously labeled photographs and diagrams . |
| 3 | WITH their very predictable choice of players , particularly the number of England players , the Lions are going to find it tough in New Zealand . |
| 4 | Reality strikes home when the learner arrives on the ward to find it overcrowded with beds , chairs , trolleys and even patients . |
| 5 | So we put a , as a rider on , that it had already passed the rider it says there , but we found it unacceptable at P A G. |
| 6 | But Cohn-Casson also found it impossible to side uncritically with Jews , because to do so would deny modern thinking , by placing tribal loyalties above the mandates of science . |
| 7 | Pursued there and besieged , they fled by night to raise a loyal army , but found it pitiful in numbers . |
| 8 | This is fine in principle , but I found it awkward in practice . |
| 9 | All through the African campaign I longed to hear from you , and found it hard at times to keep a stiff upper lip without your help . |
| 10 | We found it hard at times , but my players showed character and that was what earned them both points . ’ |
| 11 | Critics of policies of that period like Samuel Brittan have suggested that chancellors found it difficult to time their uses of the economic ‘ brake ’ or ‘ accelerator ’ properly , and that the ‘ stop-go ’ pattern that emerged provided a poor economic environment for investment decisions , and thus inhibited British growth . |
| 12 | Part of his apparently subdued reaction to the Nobel no doubt sprang from a genuine lack of confidence in his ability to continue writing ( it was not , for him , a novel feeling ) but he also found it difficult in conversation to react to praise or flattery — like Coriolanus , he did not like to hear his " nothings monster 'd " . |
| 13 | Many who subscribed to COS principles in theory found it difficult in practice to abandon to destitution or the Poor Law many who were in desperate and immediate need . |
| 14 | North European businesses found it satisfactory to farm out big clerical jobs to London agencies , and international corporations making domestic appliances found the nimble-fingered women of the North and Midlands surprisingly to their taste . |
| 15 | They always found it natural in government . |
| 16 | Mozart and his contemporaries , who ( unlike the English ) had no continuous tradition of listening to baroque music , found it sparse in texture in a way that to them must have seemed musically primitive . |
| 17 | Johnson found it full of weeds ; today it is tailored and fitted . |
| 18 | Her eyes lit up when she opened it and found it full of farthings . |
| 19 | The pool that had been so jarringly empty when I took my premeditated dive into it with Terry , I fell into with Toby and found it full of champagne . |
| 20 | He has never found it hard to practice his goalscoring trade on his travels here , there and everywhere . |
| 21 | It was essentially a masculine code , and those who often find it unacceptable in fiction may find some support in the comment of the Duchess of Omnium , regarding her noble husband 's often inconvenient scruples , that ‘ Men should n't be made of Sèvres china , but of good stone earthenware ’ . |
| 22 | I also find it useful for patterns which have a lot of single stitches in them . |
| 23 | I find it stimulating to air ideas with a variety of people , many of whom are experts in their field . ’ |
| 24 | I hope too that you find it helpful to caretaking staff in that it reduces the time that they safeguard the front entrance by 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes at the end of the day . |
| 25 | We find it helpful to number modes so that we can refer to them simply in the form νsubn ; . |
| 26 | Volleyball Partners find it tough in London |
| 27 | ‘ We are winning in the sense we are finding it easier for women to make progress in the organisation and they are not the exception any more . |
| 28 | Erm we did n't play cards he was a bit he was okay but he was obviously he 's finding it hard at times . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You will find it useful to revise.the anatomy and physiology of circulation and body fluids before reading this section . |