Example sentences of "have find it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 2 | The tragedy in this country is that the critical establishment has found it impossible to embrace those talents . |
| 3 | I am sorry if Stella has found it uncomfortable to be a female president . |
| 4 | It is even more remarkable , however , that not a single Tory Member who represents Scotland has found it worthwhile to be here . |
| 5 | Although he has not been able to cure it , he has found it possible to slow the disease down so that it stabilises , banishing the symptoms to allow the fish to grow and feed . |
| 6 | I am grateful that , on this occasion at least , the hon. Gentleman has found it possible to welcome at least some of the proposals in the White Paper . |
| 7 | No state has found it easy to give up an empire with dignity , but Mr Gorbachev is doing it now with extraordinary openness . |
| 8 | And Mr Bush , unlike John Kennedy , who came from a not dissimilar background , has found it difficult to communicate his beliefs to others . |
| 9 | He found a team in decline , but in setting about reviving their fortunes he has found it difficult to win the sort of universal adulation Dalglish enjoyed . |
| 10 | The two longer serving assistant housekeepers are familiar with her ways , but she has found it difficult to keep a third for any length of time , and the present incumbent appears sullen and resentful . |
| 11 | He has found it difficult to talk about his feelings , sometime appearing withdrawn and sad , at other times displaying challenging behaviours . |
| 12 | An Oslo court has decided to begin public debt negotiations for Norsk Data A/S at the request of the company 's board : Norsk Data has found it difficult to reach an out-of-court refinancing settlement with creditors that would enable it to secure funds to provide a 25% cash payout to unsecured creditors . |
| 13 | He says even though his company as been operating in Spain for the past 10 years , it has found it difficult to establish a market there . |
| 14 | Although Britain has found it difficult historically to slough off its economic past of stop-go , there are considerable signs that it is now prepared to do so . |
| 15 | The Commission has often brought forward proposals using a dubious legal base , and the Council has found it difficult to halt that practice in the European Court . |
| 16 | You were only young too and perhaps you 'd found it difficult that first time , to avoid having to make another date . |
| 17 | Sometimes she 'd found it difficult to believe a word he said , but he had been there to meet her when she 'd arrived as a stranger . |
| 18 | But in truth she 'd found it difficult to sustain her patronising English mix of prurience and pity very long . |
| 19 | He 'd disliked anyone complimenting me and when I 'd done well in a race he 'd found it difficult to offer congratulations . |
| 20 | After the screening , the audience had the chance to question , Simon Shepherd and Sophie Ward , who admitted they 'd found it hard to play the second romantic leads ; |
| 21 | I ca n't , I 'll have to find it some other time but er right yellow book two , let's have a look yellow book two . |
| 22 | Though most people would not have found it flattering , she did . |
| 23 | Bound hand and foot , she was thrown into the gave on the orders of her brother , the King of Navarre , watched , it is claimed , by a crowd of 3,000 , who will not have found it easy all to fit safely into this constricted spot . |
| 24 | I have n't bothered to explain certain things because , if I had , black people would have found it boring . |
| 25 | Others , visiting Paris , would sit in Notre Dame to observe the pulpit techniques of French preachers although the listeners would have found it impossible to order a bifteck from a tolerant waiter . |
| 26 | Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course . |
| 27 | For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose some people might have found it worrying , but it did n't trouble me unduly . |
| 29 | He would not have found it possible to gamble deeply or to accumulate more debt . |
| 30 | In anthropomorphic terms , we should not ask why complex organisms have found it beneficial to be diploid , but why genes living in pairs should have found it beneficial to construct complex bodies to protect and replicate them . |