Example sentences of "[adv] found it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the regionally-based one-stop-shops will open the science and technology base to industry , particularly small and medium sized enterprises ( SMEs ) , which have hitherto found it difficult to access effectively . |
| 2 | If you need to send the remedy through the post and are not using dropper type stock bottles I have personally found it safest to add the granule to 10mls of alcohol in say a 10ml screw cap vial . |
| 3 | She had somehow found it difficult to defend Brian against the accusations of his first wife , who held that he was inept and ineffectual in the field of human relationships . |
| 4 | Theologians have generally found it possible to hold together belief in the fulness of God in Christ and belief in the unchangeable perfection of the divine nature . |
| 5 | Departments have also generally found it easier to establish objectives for administrative costs ( which account for only 13 per cent of departmental expenditure ) than for programme costs ( 87 per cent of departmental expenditure and , therefore , offering potentially much greater scope for savings ) ( Public Accounts Committee , 1986–7c , para. 30 ) . |
| 6 | She had always found it easy to wait , to say nothing , to live in the silence of the moment . |
| 7 | I have not always found it easy to counter my wife 's complaints that frozen peas have to be eaten the same day . |
| 8 | Private sector organisations , more familiar with the model , have not always found it easy to integrate non-executive directors into their work ( Ham , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | At school he had always found it easy to get women . |
| 10 | She had always found it impossible to lie to Julius , though . |
| 11 | Yet the government has always found it safer to regulate companies than to tax consumers , and Mr Bush is especially averse to taxes . |
| 12 | That came straight from my early conditioning , my relationship with my mother and the fact that I have always found it easier to give than receive . |
| 13 | A young relative writing to me recently expressed the feeling that she had always found it easier to give than to receive . |
| 14 | I think I 've always found it hard to talk to people except for my best mate . |
| 15 | Ballesteros has always found it difficult to leave his home in Pedrena . |
| 16 | She could not say it was ‘ love ’ because she had always found it difficult to define the border between ‘ love ’ and ‘ friendship ’ . |
| 17 | Reductivist theory ( at least in its utilitarian form ) has always found it difficult to encompass the notion of rights , even when it comes to providing entirely innocent people with a right not to be punished . |
| 18 | In those circumstances I have always found it wise to abandon effort and leave the subconscious mind to sort things out while the conscious mind does something quite different . |
| 19 | Have you ever found it difficult to express yourself and your sexuality in your music ? |
| 20 | No one would lightly believe that either of them has ever found it hard to tell the difference between himself and somebody else . |
| 21 | They have genuinely found it difficult to come to terms with the rout that has taken place — the complete volte-face . |
| 22 | Small firms have traditionally found it difficult to set up in rural areas , despite the need for job creation and economic diversification , and this Circular is designed to help them by , for example , relaxing the conditions over the re-use of redundant agricultural buildings . |
| 23 | Staff have also found it necessary to attend children 's hearings both before and after an assessment panel . |
| 24 | Non-executive directors , presumably with appropriate expertise , have also found it difficult to influence corporate policy , even when things are going wrong . |
| 25 | When seeking old routes ‘ by eye ’ rather than with the aid of a map , I have often found it useful to stand in the middle of an old bridge and look towards the nearest hills . |
| 26 | In theory this sort of transitory demand from a minority of the community should not be allowed to influence selection decisions , but in practice librarians have often found it difficult to ignore long waiting lists entirely when selecting new books . |
| 27 | WHEN contemplating the profundities of nature , men have often found it difficult to say much of substance . |
| 28 | BEFORE the Oakland Athletics began their American League Championship series against the Toronto Blue Jays it was said that the team had a crucial flaw : when their celebrated home-run hitters were not peppering the upper decks , the A 's supposedly found it tough to manufacture runs base by base with base hits , steals and sacrifice flies . |
| 29 | Luke had never before found it necessary to summon her by the buzzer , preferring instead to call her name , and so establishing a kind of business-hours informality . |
| 30 | Some have worked abroad as volunteers , on extended vacations or in casual jobs , and have then found it difficult to get back into the mainstream of a career . |