Example sentences of "[noun] find [pers pn] [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back afterwards , Florrie found it hard to believe that such a tragedy could have arisen from such trivial , everyday circumstances . |
| 2 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 3 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 4 | Curtis found it hard to believe that he was looking at the killer of at least twenty people . |
| 5 | Regulators find it difficult to ensure that the regulated really do produce on the lowest possible cost curve . |
| 6 | Now , even those who sincerely hate capitalism find it hard to believe that the example of the third world will save us all . |
| 7 | Foreign firms find it difficult to believe that Japanese costs are really low enough to justify such low prices and there is some evidence that the domestic prices of equivalent goods are higher . |
| 8 | Many theologians find it hard to believe that the gospel which is called Matthew 's gospel was written by the apostle . |
| 9 | Mathematicians find it useful to assume that a tiny part of the circumference of a large circle can be regarded as straight . |
| 10 | Everyone began to listen carefully to the news bulletins on the wireless and to buy newspapers as soon as they were printed , yet people found it hard to believe that war could really happen . |
| 11 | Some people find it hard to accept that Jesus would utter such a cry of despair . |
| 12 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , many people find it hard to believe that something like the eye , Paley 's favourite example , so complex and well designed , with so many interlocking working parts , could have arisen from small beginnings by a gradual series of step-by-step changes . |
| 13 | With so many awkward questions hanging over the case , Coleman found it hard to imagine that the government would take it into court — and was not at all reassured by the thought . |
| 14 | This is , presumably , why Lockheed found it necessary to ensure that it was granted contracts around the world by offering financial inducements to decision-makers in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 15 | At the other end , advertisers find it difficult to admit that they are supposed to be addressing an audience in middle age and onwards . |