Example sentences of "finding it impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finding it impossible to break into movies after the production slump of the 1940s , before television offered an alternative route to aspiring filmmakers , people like Anderson , Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz worked instead within sponsored documentaries , while writing about the sort of passionate , personal filmmaking that seemed to be possible in France , Italy , even India , but not in Britain . |
| 2 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 3 | Reference to Freemantle 's letter shows that although Philip and Anne Leapor both attempted to break their daughter of the habit of writing verses , toward the end of the poet 's life some accommodation was reached : ‘ But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , [ her father ] had of late desisted and left her more at Liberty ’ [ vol. 2 , p. xxx ] . |
| 4 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 5 | In the meantime , the Dragoons were floundering in the boggy ground , easy targets for the riflemen while finding it impossible to fire with any reasonable accuracy themselves . |
| 6 | Randy Sandone , formerly executive vice-president of Addamax and now president of the new 16-man firm , Argus Systems Group Inc , said that Addamax was finding it impossible to do business because of the lawsuit . |
| 7 | Randy Sandone , formerly executive vice president of Addamax and now president of the new 16-man firm , Argus Systems Group Inc , said that Addamax was finding it impossible to do business because of the lawsuit . |
| 8 | Similarly , some of the bigger employers are finding it impossible to attract young workers on to their YTS schemes . |
| 9 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 10 | And we 've had , had instances of why that policy did n't work , and I 'm only sorry that those people who supported it before are finding it impossible to support it now . |
| 11 | Evidence of two-tier trading already exists in Scotland , where companies with supermarket contracts are finding it impossible to cover overheads because the multiples themselves are locked in price competition . |