Example sentences of "finds it [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Failure to talk about sexual needs may mean that the individual does not consider it to be a problem , or that he or she finds it embarrassing to discuss such matters .
2 It might be an idea to consider whether you have ‘ programmed yourself ’ to be an insomniac by telling yourself that you are one of those people who ‘ never finds it easy to fall asleep ’ .
3 Apart from the difficulty of chambers , the ordinary person who has no special connections normally finds it easier to get some kind of start on the common law side , where there is a great deal of small work , in county courts and the criminal courts ; on the Chancery side there is no criminal work and all the civil work tends to be fairly important .
4 If the representative assembly in such a system finds it difficult to hold the administration accountable , this may be because the collective political leadership of the administration finds it convenient to restrict legislative scrutiny and control .
5 Even if an installation finds it convenient to use one of the smaller operating systems for much of its work , it may he possible to switch to an operating system that provides the extra facility to handle variable-length records , just for those files that need it .
6 The reason the sensation of seeing is so different from the sensation of hearing and the sensation of smelling is that the brain finds it convenient to use different kinds of internal model of the visual world , the world of sound and the world of smell .
7 It is difficult for them to be drawn accurately and the human eye finds it difficult to detect small differences — in our example the slices representing 12% and 13% of the total .
8 She says he has no concentration now , he finds it difficult to remember simple things .
9 On the other hand , she finds it difficult to take much interest in financial control , which means that there are sometimes errors in bills , and her unwillingness to ask walk-in guests for a deposit has led to the occasional bad debt .
10 He was a prisoner , in the jungle , he finds it difficult to get used to everything being normal again .
11 I am sorry if the Minister finds it difficult to understand that , when I say ’ personally ’ in this respect , I mean that I am expressing my view and the view of my party .
12 It is also unfortunately still true that the Area Staff Office receives very partial information from the Groups and therefore finds it difficult to play much of a coordinating role in the process .
13 Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed .
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