Example sentences of "find it more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One further point of possible confusion : because venture capital from investors looking for capital gains is not available to co-operatives , they are likely to find it more difficult to raise the larger sums of money needed to start capital-intensive projects . |
| 2 | and he reached a stage of heavy dependence on Lloyd George ; Birkenhead found it more congenial to work with men of ideas like Churchill than with the squires who would fill out a Unionist ministry ; Balfour had always striven to practise government by agreement . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher found it more possible to assert her own right-wing views as against those of moderates like Prior or Walker , with a strong thrust towards monetarism emerging in the party 's The Right Approach to the Economy . |
| 4 | As most readers of the BMJ are not acupuncturists we found it more accurate to give the location in centimetres rather than cuns . |
| 5 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 6 | Many found it more attractive to take development decisions without being encumbered by a publicly agreed plan . |
| 7 | For example , while some companies may have been able to ignore the social protest of individuals who suffered the effects of industrial pollution , they found it more difficult to resist organized groups of citizens whose opposition accompanied a marked decline in support for the LDP . |
| 8 | I found it more difficult to talk to him , somewhere he or I had changed . |
| 9 | I am tempted to accept the Minister 's explanation of his motivation , but those in my constituency , one of the poorest in the country , who made claims at the time of the reforms found it more difficult to obtain any decent benefits from the system . |
| 10 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 11 | Hence the increasing tendency for landlords to develop share-cropping tenancies to replace the crops they themselves found it more difficult to produce . |
| 12 | When restrictions on bank credit were relaxed , companies found it more advantageous to lend and borrow through banks , particularly as when they dealt directly transactions were unsecured . |
| 13 | Whether as ratepayers or as employers the farmers who ran the majority of rural councils found it more advantageous to provide tied housing for farm workers and build the minimum number of local authority homes . |
| 14 | One 's blood ran cold when German politicians , rather than condemning such violence outright , instead found it more expedient to talk of clamping down on immigration — as though immigrants themselves were partly to blame for being beaten up and firebombed . |
| 15 | It was admitted that occasionally the good were afflicted too , and that in these cases God was probably testing their faith , or even possibly allowing them their purgatory on earth , but on the whole the Church found it more satisfactory to believe that madness was punitive and well-deserved . |
| 16 | Since boards of directors tend to be unsympathetic to such questions , the personnel manager generally finds it more expedient to adopt an imaginative approach to the information he supplies . |
| 17 | Maybe , now that Liam is a toddler , he finds it more difficult to remain patient . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Though orchids are easy to propagate from seed , and exporting them is exempt from Cites rules , traders have found it more profitable to dig plants up instead . |
| 20 | Oz Hotz de Baar stopped burning his straw 5 years ago , even though he 's found it more expensive to plough it in . |
| 21 | The latter have always found it more difficult to move out of cities than owner occupiers , because of the limited availability of private-rented accommodation outside the large cities and because of the barriers limiting transfers between council housing areas . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 24 | In so far as institutions find it more profitable to invest abroad , UK companies may find it more difficult to float new share issues . |
| 25 | Without exports to put an edge on the market breeders find it more profitable to put a Charolais on their Welsh Black cows . ’ |
| 26 | But other animals , particularly those that produce many babies at a time , find it more practical to take their young with them when they forage . |
| 27 | Secondly , not all the sexual impulses can be gratified , and the more educated ( ‘ civilized ’ in Freud 's term ) often find it more difficult to gratify as many impulses as other people do . |
| 28 | All this means that individuals find it more difficult to give meaning to their lives and become isolated units , without a mutual interdependence with objects in their human environment . |
| 29 | In 1972 , 41% of women over 16 were daily cigarette smokers ( a figure that had been fairly constant since the 1950s ) whilst in 1986 that figure was 31% , compared with 52% and 35% for men [ 1 ] : this has given rise to the assumption that women find it more difficult to give up smoking than men . |
| 30 | Other women find it more difficult to broach the subject with a long-term partner as that person is used to having sex in a certain ( possibly unsafe ) way . |