Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , businesses large and small continue to find it necessary to cut jobs . |
| 2 | She seemed to find it difficult to make friends , and the fact that she hardly ever wandered far from the house only added to her loneliness . |
| 3 | The Building Societies Commission has always considered it desirable to develop disclosure requirements for building societies roughly in parallel with those for the rest of the banking sector . |
| 4 | What it would mean is that we would consider it immoral to treat animals as if they had no intrinsic value , as if they were of instrumental value only , merely means to human ends . |
| 5 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 6 | I found it impossible to make relationships , I was one hell of a mess . |
| 7 | Managers found it impossible to maintain discipline : if a girl found a man to keep her for a while , she would ‘ scarper ’ ( disappear ) . |
| 8 | So Jane found it easy to ask Flora — whom she found honest and direct — how she and Alastair had got together . |
| 9 | Because they saw the world as composed of groups rather than of individuals , they found it easy to articulate rules of general application , to which exceptions required specific dispensation . |
| 10 | It is compatible with a personal computer ; I found it simple to transfer Pro-File 's stored data and to display any dive profile . |
| 11 | When Kawasaki began operations in their US plant at Nebraska they found it preferable to import components from their subcontractors back in Japan who could even at that distance , guarantee weekly deliveries . |
| 12 | All the same , he found it pleasant to watch Hari reviving like a thirsty plant which has just been watered . |
| 13 | In work with neurotics , and patients unable to recover from the death of a loved one , Freud found it useful to conceptualize matters in the following way . |
| 14 | When Richard Earl of Cornwall was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1257 he found it useful to have cameos and intaglios dating from Classical antiquity inserted in his crown as well as precious stones ( fig.36 ) . |
| 15 | More important , she found it fascinating to put Monsieur de Levantiére 's advice into practice . |
| 16 | So it will not do to say that the reason why the Government found it necessary to curtail debate on the Bill was that they felt that there would be massive opposition to it . |
| 17 | The English Copernican John Wilkins also found it necessary to revise concepts of biblical authority in order to make room for scientific propositions that seemed at odds with the plain meaning of Scripture . |
| 18 | The Government found it necessary to assure Parliament that special arrangements would be devised under which it would be consulted on draft Community legislation before crucial decisions were taken in Brussels . |
| 19 | In 1971 Thomson found it necessary to reduce publication from weekly to monthly . |
| 20 | Ostensibly defending the sanctity of the Sabbath against the joyful musical interruptions of the Salvationists , it was reported from one area that rioting Skeletonites were dressed in ‘ coloured rags and tinsel , masks , helmets , and other pantomime clothing ’ , and in several localities police chiefs found it necessary to ban Salvation Army processions for fear of riots . |
| 21 | The money was removed and the new element of time on a job was applied , and er this was n't done easily of course because when they introduced the work study consultants , erm we found it necessary , particularly the shop stewards found it necessary to have consultation with the management . |
| 22 | I often found it necessary to reprimand students for learning their TOEFL words during classes . |
| 23 | In 1937 Basil Henriques , a youth worker , magistrate and pillar of respectability , found it reasonable to excuse shop-lifting from multiple stores , for example , because they offered ‘ that most disgraceful temptation … the most attractive gadgets and toys in open trays well within the reach of children ’ . |
| 24 | He was able to extend his law to cubic and biquadratic residues , but to state his results elegantly he found it helpful to introduce numbers of the form a + pb and a + ib respectively where a , b are integers , p is a complex cube root of unity and , of course , i is the usual square root of -1 . |
| 25 | The couple have a home in Hollywood and a farm in Vermont , but Michael , who is widely regarded in Hollywood as a workaholic , found it hard to put family first and is now keen to produce his own films as well as act in them . |
| 26 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 27 | Although she had made the best of resolutions not to be drawn into talking about her own times , she found it hard to resist Johnny 's persistent questioning . |
| 28 | She found it hard making friends there . |
| 29 | Rostov found it hard to feel sympathy for Grigoriev 's predicament . |
| 30 | He found it hard to express sympathy and , in any case , he was more interested in legal matters . |