Example sentences of "not find it [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It has provided a valuable structure for our thinking and discussions , but , because we have had to focus less on teachers and more on pupils , we have not found it appropriate to map programmes of study directly on to the model . |
| 2 | Pelseneer ( 1926 ) considered the broadest specimens to be females but most authors have not found it possible to determine the sex of living animals on the basis of shell form or body colour , although the largest individuals are usually females ( see , for example , Feare , 1970c ; osborne , 1977 ; Palmer , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | I am sorry that the Minister has not found it possible to agree with the reasonable amendment . |
| 4 | For example , my own Confession , Eastern Orthodoxy , has not found it easy to translate its great liturgical and spiritual treasures from rural and primitive existence to the urban and sophisticated life of modernity . |
| 5 | ‘ As a rule of thumb , we have not found it necessary . |
| 6 | The Privy Council in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) stated that their Lordships had not found it necessary to consider the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher in relation to remoteness of damage and it has been suggested that the inference is that causation , not foreseeability , is the test under the rule . |
| 7 | Many of them she admired , particularly the older students , and was astounded to find they were studying the Bible and not finding it boring . |
| 8 | They are not finding it easy . |
| 9 | I 'm divorced now and not finding it easy to get a job in civvy street . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That shows that people want to adopt a healthier diet and lifestyle but are not finding it easy to make the change . |
| 11 | I though about sei-sei-ying , or the condition of being a birch leaf in early autumn , but did not find it helpful . |
| 12 | He did not find it awkward that his own father was the tutor of the college and so responsible in a double sense for his pastoral care . |
| 13 | How much of what the informants said was discarded by the interviewer because he did not find it useful — and by what criteria did he decide what was useful and what was not ? |
| 14 | Whatever , I do not find it surprising that Lacan admired Augustine , and credits him with foreshadowing psychoanalysis ( Ecrits , 20 ) . |
| 15 | We did not find it feasible , however , because of potential ethical problems , to collect bile from such a patient group . |
| 16 | I did not find it light-hearted at all . |
| 17 | Many barristers who fail in practice , or who do not find it congenial , obtain employment in salaried posts , as will be explained later . |
| 18 | New Zealand , silver medal-winners last time , may not find it easy against the improving Finland . |
| 19 | But Cuckney does not find it easy to put his finger on the fundamental differences between operating in the two sectors . |
| 20 | By nature he is very much ‘ one of the boys ’ , which must have made it hard to assert himself , he does not find it easy to take advice and is readily upset by criticism . |
| 21 | That is why ‘ Dusty ’ Hare will not find it easy to wave a magic wand at Nottingham in his new paid position of director of rugby . |
| 22 | But building one is going to cost an enormous amount , and produce an asset which we will not find it easy to leave . |
| 23 | Those who are mentally alert may not find it easy or pleasant to take help from the very ones they have supported and cared for over the years . |
| 24 | Cook has every intention of getting back into the South African team next season although he will not find it easy following the success of Andrew Hudson at the World Cup . |
| 25 | There would certainly be some , including many of considerable eminence , who would not find it easy to assent unquestioningly to the proposition that it was constitutional for Parliament to ignore the terms of union at will . |
| 26 | Then , too , the forger will not find it easy to come across the right paper . |
| 27 | People living in the new blocks or sharing overcrowded flats in old buildings throughout the Soviet Union would not find it easy to defy the conformity demanded by the authorities . |
| 28 | I managed the skirt and made a start on the top , I did not find it easy with holding , four colours to change and the pattern to cope with . |
| 29 | It was an indication of the great difficulty the European idea would have in achieving concerted action in even a single economic sector , and suggested that the recently established and broader European Economic Community of 1957 would not find it easy to secure its broad objectives of common policies and a common market . |
| 30 | People who are drowning in mortification do not find it easy to laugh . |