Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that we may find it hard to suppose that facts can cause anything ; surely they are too inert to affect the way the world goes , even where that world is the merely mental world of beliefs . |
| 2 | When Peter Adamson wrote the NI 's first editorial back in 1973 he would have found it hard to believe that things could get much worse in the field of trade — but they have . |
| 3 | However , given that such maps exist , I find it hard to believe that distances could be estimated by a method analogous to using Pythagoras ' theorem . |
| 4 | Finally , we have found it salutary to remember that teachers will use the program in quite different ways and it is they who will manage and build the total activity . |
| 5 | Was it insulting to assume that mothers still raised their children ? |
| 6 | Practical and ethical problems make it difficult to prove that viruses cause cancer in humans . |
| 7 | The individual himself may be perverse or oversensitive ; the reviewing court itself is capable of an Olympian detachment and impartiality , and it thus may find it difficult to believe that others are ever tempted and swayed . |
| 8 | The Chinese seem to find it difficult to believe that foreigners have arm- and leg-muscles the same as themselves ! |
| 9 | Even with structured A4 records , computerised recall and repeat prescribing , and a relatively vigilant team , we still found it difficult to ensure that women who had stopped the pill because of a rise in pressure did not resume it , even when they and practice staff were apparently aware of the risk . |
| 10 | I consider it legitimate to require that officers have such information when dealing with individuals on the pavement or in cars . |
| 11 | Was it correct to assume that women were invisible in the public domain because their interests as ‘ partners ’ in the family were adequately and fairly represented there by men ? |
| 12 | In these circumstances is it realistic to assume that workers , particularly workers covered by union agreements , make significant blunders in dividing W by P ? |