Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've all been partially excluded from mainstream schools , where they found it hard to fit in . |
| 2 | In general local law societies disagreed with the question , although they found it difficult to reach a consensus on the issue . |
| 3 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has introduced a new Y-MP M90 series of supercomputers , claiming that they offer the largest main memories ever , in the hope that they make it possible to solve important scientific and engineering problems that are too large for the memory of any existing computer system to handle efficiently . |
| 4 | The advantages of longitudinal studies are that they make it possible to study change over time , though as a series of snapshots rather than as a continuous process . |
| 5 | Some doctors are so overwhelmed by their own emotions that they find it hard to handle the mother 's . |
| 6 | There are children so painfully shy that they find it difficult to voice publicly " Yes " or " No " . |
| 7 | The problem there is that graduates are so terribly boring and uninteresting people basically are n't they that they find it difficult to impart their er |
| 8 | One problem that a lot of knitters have , to start with , is that they find it difficult to free the weaving yarn from the sinker plate when changing it from one side of the sinker plate to the other . |
| 9 | If we look at it another way , we can suggest that many physics students feel that they must accept what they are told by their departments and that they find it difficult to challenge what they are told . |
| 10 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 11 | 15% said they were badly affected — and of those , roughly one half said their main problem was that they found it difficult to pick up their usual programmes on LW . |
| 12 | However , some did make the comment that they found it difficult to get details on the new systems . |
| 13 | Some thought it was an attempt to make the long hitters go for the green across the water so they made it twenty-five paces shorter . |
| 14 | Just as they can not cope with the nutritional inferiority of a vegetarian diet , so they find it hard to deal with even a moderate dose of alcohol and may start to vomit , collapse or even go into a coma . |
| 15 | ‘ They are educated , as Prince Charles had been , with other boys at a boarding school and they find it impossible to deal with an hysterical woman . |
| 16 | And they find it easier to come here now . |
| 17 | Moreover , UDCs have powers to operate outside their immediate boundaries , if they think it necessary to secure regeneration . |
| 18 | In such circumstances national courts of all levels remain entirely at liberty to bring a matter before the European Court if they consider it appropriate to do so . |
| 19 | In the first place , local authorities can serve an enforcement notice only ‘ if they consider it expedient to do so having regard to the provisions of the development plan and to any other material considerations ’ ; in short , they must be satisfied that enforcement is necessary in the interests of good planning . |
| 20 | ( 12 ) Where the reasons stated in a notice under this rule relate specifically to matters which ( a ) refer to a person identified in the notice other than the member in question ; and ( b ) are in the opinion of the board prejudicial to that person in any office or employment , the board shall , unless they consider it impracticable to do so , serve a copy of the notice on that person . |
| 21 | These machines are rather expensive , but they make it possible to lift off the original sync sound from the video tape , combine it with additional sound ( held either on separate tracks or pre-mixed on the recorder via ‘ sound on sound ’ mixing ) , and then to lay it back onto the video tape still in perfect synchronisation . |
| 22 | United , without the injured Franz Carr and suspended top scorer Brian Deane , had recalled Cork and Adrian Littlejohn but they found it hard going against a Rovers defence boosted by the return of Irish skipper Kevin Moran . |
| 23 | The chimes of bells which stood in every district of the city were being rung as they sat down — both because the ringers had been amply bribed and because they thought it politic to honour Artai and his chief supporter — and a small orchestra of trumpets and tambours had been hired by a steward and was accommodated in the yard , so that Burun 's speech of welcome to his guests , as well as their affable replies , were conducted with much opening and shutting of mouths and a deal of dumb show . |
| 24 | Later on , I learned about tarot cards and ouija boards and just drifted into using these props , because they made it easier to see and feel these things . ’ |
| 25 | If the authorities refrain from using force because they think it wiser to use other means , the effect is often as follows : … to prevent or resist violence , the governing class may use guile , cunning , fraud and corruption — in short . |
| 26 | Carers were asked whether they found it difficult to cope with any of the tasks they performed . |
| 27 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |