Example sentences of "often found it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pope 's epistle is probably the most important statement of the dominant view of women in the eighteenth century , and women writing explicitly about issues of gender often found it necessary to confront this poem . |
| 2 | I often found it necessary to reprimand students for learning their TOEFL words during classes . |
| 3 | But they should draw comfort from the knowledge that the economists involved often found it hard to understand one another . |
| 4 | Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again . |
| 5 | Rather like those nineteenth-century American ladies who often found it easier to fight for slaves , or Indians , or heathens or The Poor than for themselves . |
| 6 | They often found it difficult to resist these demands . |
| 7 | The Sutton pupils quickly noticed that Russells Hall pupils , whom they had imagined would be perfect writers and illustrators , sought help from the teachers and each other and often found it difficult to locate required information . |
| 8 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |
| 9 | At this point we were told that the WO often found it difficult to get a clear indication of what was going on until it was too late to intervene without revocation being necessary . |
| 10 | ‘ It is n't given to everyone to have that good fortune , ’ he said rather stiffly , for he often found it difficult to know what to say about Penelope . |