Example sentences of "found it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother had once remarked that it was her opinion that Harry had actually caused Nathan 's idiocy in a fit of temper soon after he was born , and through whispered gossip over the years she had guessed that Tristram had become the focus of conflict between his parents and that he had found it increasingly necessary to defend both Nathan and his mother against his father 's violent outbursts of temper . |
| 2 | Reports suggested that Rathore had found it increasingly difficult to co-operate with the AJK President , Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan of the Moslem Conference , a party closely allied to the Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) -dominated government of Pakistan [ see p. 37653 ] . |
| 3 | As we have seen , in recent years Persil has found it increasingly difficult to sustain its traditional whiteness claim — which it was allowed to make 30 years ago whether it was true or not . |
| 4 | For an industry that is one of the biggest single employers in this country though , times have been hard during 1991/92 and businesses country-wide have found it increasingly difficult to continue the level of graduate recruitment . |
| 5 | At the same time , however , the parties have found it increasingly difficult to build and sustain popular confidence in their capacity to ‘ solve the country 's problems ’ , as these problems have become more acute and intractable . |
| 6 | In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've found it increasingly difficult to attract youngsters into the game because of the success of , and publicity for , rugby league here , ’ Des Seabrook , coach of Orrell and Lancashire , said . |
| 8 | Over a period of 18 months , Cox had found it increasingly difficult to front the cost of her supplies . |
| 9 | In these experiments subjects have invariably found it most difficult to remain awake in the hours between midnight and noon , with a revival every afternoon . |
| 10 | Sadly , it has been all too often the case that it is precisely in this area that individuals and agencies have found it most difficult to co-operate . |
| 11 | Human experimenters have found it surprisingly difficult to put bats off their stride by playing loud artificial ultrasound at them . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've seen the way you look at him — and frankly we 've all found it rather embarrassing to see the lovesick look on your face whenever he 's anywhere near you . |
| 13 | We have found it particularly important to develop candidate materials to explain the additional assessment in language suitable for our trainees . |
| 14 | No wonder investigators have found it more profitable to examine this problem in animals , where it is much easier to programme experience and ensure that only single events are studied without the influence of others . |
| 15 | Though orchids are easy to propagate from seed , and exporting them is exempt from Cites rules , traders have found it more profitable to dig plants up instead . |
| 16 | Oz Hotz de Baar stopped burning his straw 5 years ago , even though he 's found it more expensive to plough it in . |
| 17 | The latter have always found it more difficult to move out of cities than owner occupiers , because of the limited availability of private-rented accommodation outside the large cities and because of the barriers limiting transfers between council housing areas . |
| 18 | He seems to have found it more difficult to extrapolate remote , romantic adventures from the complex , changing world of the 1920s and after than Anthony Hope found it to transport a late-Victorian man-about-town to a small Central European kingdom . |
| 19 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 20 | For some years Amnesty International has gazed with envy at those charities and voluntary organizations that have found it relatively easy to attract donations and sponsorship of events from companies . |
| 21 | It was as if they had found it too difficult to bridge the gap between simple experimental systems and the complexity of nature — as if the reductionism of the experimental method lost the holist qualities of the integrated complex whole that these distinguished ecologists saw in natural vegetation . |
| 22 | But what we 're proposing here essentially , is to say we 've got a seventy thousand pound contingency not specifically allocated , we will reduce that down to thirty thousand , but within that thirty thousand we will have to deal with requests we get to increase grants to people who 're already in receipt of grant support , and also we 've also found it extremely helpful to have a small reserve so that when a body comes along and says I would do this for you , but I do need a small grant in order to do it , and you 're effectively buying a hundred thousand pounds worth of service for ten thousand pounds , that you have actually got a ten thousand pounds to put it in , rather than funding everyone , so that 's basically the policy behind it Chair . |
| 23 | Even recent Conservative governments have found it extremely difficult to make real reductions in public spending . |
| 24 | I have found it very useful to prepare a graphical cropping plan ( see Figure 3 ) looking ahead a number of years . |
| 25 | Twenty-five percent of the respondents would have found it very easy to attend , 61% would have found it fairly easy , while only 14% would have found it difficult to attend . |
| 26 | But on the whole once I 've got talking it 's been very successful , and people are always amazed at what they do remember in great detail about how they got things , why they got them , when they got them , and I think by and large the people that I have talked to have found it very interesting to do for themselves as well as for me . |
| 27 | If I did not believe that the answer to these questions was in each case a resounding yes I would have found it very difficult to give these lectures . |
| 28 | One detective said : ‘ The girl is absolutely distraught and has found it very difficult to remember much about her attacker . |
| 29 | If you have always found it very difficult to dream up original and unusual ideas for ruby weddings , then making a red or burgundy pressed flower picture could solve all your problems . |
| 30 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |