Example sentences of "find it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever fate now awaits him , the Friar-Tuck figure of Casey would find it physically hard to emulate the vicar . |
| 2 | Projectile weapons will kill anyone you want , but I 'd find it rather difficult to drill through the tunnel floor with an old Browning . ’ |
| 3 | There 's a practical point here too — you may find it rather difficult to find an elegant belt suitable for evening wear . |
| 4 | Now I know some of you will find d er find it rather difficult to distinguish between those two . |
| 5 | One immediate , short-term outcome of the disproportionate distribution of political support is that political parties which propose radical , particularly left-wing , change will find it increasingly difficult to argue their case in public . |
| 6 | Old , compressed cultures such as this can be notably cohesive and resilient , but they can find it increasingly difficult to adapt to radical , as distinct from incremental , changes . |
| 7 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , at the end of a year when insufficient Terminal courses had been provided to use up all available Ministry grant , he commented that ‘ we may find it increasingly difficult to resist a reduction in the number of tutor-organisers we now employ , let alone claim a further appointment , if additional Terminal courses are not successfully organised in both established and new centres ’ . |
| 8 | It may find it increasingly difficult to hold the Government to its promise of a 50-frigate Navy when the Warsaw Pact military threat is perceived to be diminishing . |
| 9 | ‘ What this all means , ’ says Mr Stuart Matthews of Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's Tokyo branch , ‘ is that the banks will find it increasingly difficult to raise large amounts of equity . ’ |
| 10 | Without a well-trained workforce Britain will find it increasingly difficult to match the productivity and income growth of other countries . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is not surprising that the Hon. Members for Wimbledon ( Dr. Goodson-Wickes ) and for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) and those other Hon. Members from other exotic places who served with us would not find it particularly attractive to participate in further debates on the Bill today . |
| 12 | We do show a lot of strong women artists — Nicola Hicks , Amanda Faulkner , Carole Hodgson , Glenys Barton , Lucy Jones — so maybe they do find it slightly easier to approach me . |
| 13 | People will find it progressively difficult to meet their basic need for cooking energy . |
| 14 | Whereas some sensitive clergy might feel that they could not but take account of recent scientific thinking , men of science who were churchmen would find it even harder to avoid : Faraday 's way of keeping a serene faith and active science apart was not so easy in 1870 . |
| 15 | The British government will find it even harder to win support for its alternative road to monetary union based on a free-for-all competition between different currencies . |
| 16 | Manufacturers selling a wide range of products over a wide geographical area to a market numbered in millions would find it prohibitively expensive to set up their own Highstreet stores , even if they were permitted to proliferate in this way . |
| 17 | He will find it less easy to defend his involvement with a cricket call-line service last summer , a job that some will say kept him from his Yorkshire priority . |
| 18 | There are also some people who ‘ specialize ’ in babies and young children and they may find it less easy to empathize with teenagers and handle them wisely . |
| 19 | If Mr Hussein has decided to do so — by ordering a full or partial withdrawal from Kuwait before January 15th — he will find it less humiliating to say so to the European Community , or to Arab mediators , than to Mr Baker . |
| 20 | He has said he is determined to remain in office until his term expires in July 1992 , but Mr Andreotti 's wobbly five-party government may find it ever harder to coexist with such a tempestuous president . |
| 21 | With star switching , people would find it relatively easy to connect devices such as microprocessors and business computers . |
| 22 | Small firms may not find it so easy to make this commitment , particularly if they have either a small , stable workforce , or the need to recruit at short notice when vacancies occur . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course , if you get married now , ’ Aunt Lilian said , ‘ you may not find it so easy to get into politics . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He wo n't find it so easy to get another wife , ’ she said to Owen . |
| 25 | Erm they 're in no hurry to join but with this second period er from September or was it October and erm once again there is this idea that , you know , the tide is turning and they , they will now join erm they wo n't find it so hard to join as the rich peasants but once again they 're not as enthusiastic and maybe they should be but they are , they are helping more but er er and this is the key er for which you know Mao talked about later is that we 've got to get the middle peasant actually actively involved |
| 26 | Why do I find it so hard to stick to ? |
| 27 | They do n't find it so comfortable to forget you with a nice headstone . ’ |
| 28 | So why did she find it so difficult to ignore the mocking , taunting comments and treat them with the silent scorn they so richly deserved ? |
| 29 | His visits were regarded as occasions for embarrassment rather than pleasure or consolation , and he was left wondering why , when his motives were generous , these people should find it so difficult to respond with a matching warmth . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you really find it so difficult to keep your mind on your work , Nurse Avery ? ’ |