Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] [verb] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this made it extremely difficult to follow any strategy of industrial reorganisation ; and in this respect there are interesting parallels between the late 1960s and the late 1940s . |
| 2 | Attending the performance of a pastiche Jacobean tragedy , she attempts to incorporate lines from this play into the evidence she is piecing together , but then finds it utterly impossible to locate any edition which would confirm the lines she heard . |
| 3 | In cases of phonological dyslexia , the patient finds it almost impossible to read any word with which he or she was unfamiliar prior to brain injury . |
| 4 | ‘ I find it almost impossible to imagine any frequenter of this club using a lap-top computer . |
| 5 | To follow that rule uncritically for Margery Kempe would make it virtually impossible to reach any conclusion about her from a modern psychiatric viewpoint , given the religious climate of her times . |
| 6 | Today many people find it virtually impossible to conjure any face other than Clark Gable 's as Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind . |
| 7 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
| 8 | With the possible exception of grant-maintained status , for which I personally find it very difficult to see any merit or justification , the other provisions with potential threat for children with special needs ( open enrolment and local financial management ) are for me rather like the curate 's egg . |
| 9 | Detectives are finding it very difficult to extract any information from the travelling communities |
| 10 | Next year 's meeting is to be held in June 1992 in Glasgow , where environmental lobbying is expected to be at such a pitch that delegations may find it politically impossible to approve any renewal of large-scale hunting . |