Example sentences of "find it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only later were , was one to find it possible to develop a small comedy action or a small dramatic action on the screen , this would be around nineteen hundred and three , four , five , about five or six years from the beginning , that films of this sort would make . |
| 2 | Reluctant participators who start off with a limited range of interest and involvement in management are unlikely to find it easy to commit themselves to new and broader aims . |
| 3 | If , if she had believed the aim to keep it off , I would 've been jealous , but she , she 's not going to find it easy to keep her weight , she 's out here when she 's put back on pound . |
| 4 | Roosevelt 's main aim remained the recovery of private industry , but he was to find it necessary to stimulate the economy on a number of future occasions through direct government action ( pp. 33–4 , 35 ) . |
| 5 | I had not expected to find it necessary to leave the Cabinet . |
| 6 | There was nothing unusual about MPs getting carried away during debates on crime and violence , however , or for the Speaker to find it necessary to call for ‘ Order ! ’ against ‘ shouts of sadistic enthusiasm ’ when whipping was on the agenda . |
| 7 | Even so , businesses large and small continue to find it necessary to cut jobs . |
| 8 | The smaller one seemed to find it necessary to raise her voice , so that Rupert heard a sentence of their conversation before they passed out of earshot . |
| 9 | Then he began to find it impossible to withdraw his mind from a vision of this house empty , and of the rooms he would be returning to . |
| 10 | ‘ I just could n't get the Queen to talk about the situation , she seemed to find it impossible to get involved ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She seems to find it impossible to get involved in anybody 's emotional problems — not even when it comes to saving her own family . ’ |
| 12 | Because so few of the policy-makers have had direct experience of business , they seem to find it impossible to believe that when , for instance , interest rates fall , the positive effect on business confidence and hence on investment decisions may take up to three years to work through . |
| 13 | Some people seem to find it impossible to make that personal decision . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyone coming into a derby is going to find it hard to find their feet , ’ Ferguson said . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyone coming into a derby is going to find it hard to find their feet . |
| 16 | I think a lot of people tend to find it hard to get by on a , a monthly pay packet as it is |
| 17 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 18 | I questioned the need for such a display of guns and they seemed to find it difficult to justify them . |
| 19 | Countries that have developed a taste for gas-guzzling machinery are certain to find it difficult to turn back to animal power . |
| 20 | Any state founded on nationalist principles is going to find it difficult to accommodate more than one nationality . |
| 21 | Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak . |
| 22 | Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak |
| 23 | Although generally aware that bran , wholemeal bread ( which has less of its fibre stripped away in the milling process than white bread ) and muesli-type mixtures are rich sources of fibre , most people used to find it difficult to know where to locate that healthy high-fibre food . |
| 24 | The Chinese seem to find it difficult to believe that foreigners have arm- and leg-muscles the same as themselves ! |
| 25 | The Conservatives also were to find it difficult to forget that he was not from their side , but a Labour appointee with clear and continuing sympathies for the trade unions . |
| 26 | Many teachers begin to find it difficult to contain their drama to occasional one-off sessions in the hall . |
| 27 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 28 | She seemed to find it difficult to make friends , and the fact that she hardly ever wandered far from the house only added to her loneliness . |
| 29 | Once again the whole formula worked perfectly and once again I am going to find it difficult to capture its spirit without being fulsomely personal and long-winded . |
| 30 | Nevertheless the English language seems to find it easier to talk of events rather than processes — and that is the way that we tend to talk . |