Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm Yeah we 've been found it really difficult finding a baby sitter really I 'm surprised ever since we 've had Lisa we 've been really bad uh uh actually having baby sitters and you know actually making the effort to go out really . |
| 2 | He seemed to be saying it as much to convince himself as to convince all the rest . |
| 3 | The truth is that I 'm finding it damnably hard to confess to you what happened between Lotta and myself , and it 's vital that you know . ’ |
| 4 | Large companies still seem to be finding it increasingly difficult to retain top management . |
| 5 | These pressures are making it increasingly difficult to reconcile enjoyment of the parks ' natural beauty with conservation , according to the commission . |
| 6 | However , it may take some considerable time to reach this target ; as the majority of DATEC courses are run in separate art colleges and these have been particularly squeezed by the current financial crisis , they are finding it particularly difficult to make the desired provision . |
| 7 | But agencies are finding it profoundly difficult to reach a consensus . |
| 8 | He criticised ‘ as a policy mess ’ the present position where so many would-be solicitors are prevented from obtaining discretionary awards from local authorities , are unable to enjoy preferential rates under the Government 's student loan scheme , and are finding it increasingly difficult to find places in already hard pressed high street firms who do legal aid work . |
| 9 | ‘ Students are finding it increasingly difficult to get that experience . |
| 10 | Many of them have inordinately high mortgages around their necks and they are finding it extremely difficult to service them in this unusually long period of high interest rates . |
| 11 | It also helps congregations understand why they are finding it so difficult to reach ‘ resistant areas ’ for which they feel a responsibility . |
| 12 | Spokeswoman Margaret Rooke-Matthews said : ‘ People are finding it too expensive to go to the pub . |
| 13 | Many families these days are finding it very hard to make ends meet . |
| 14 | ‘ Young people are finding it very hard to get into magic today . |
| 15 | It is a country in which drug traffickers , be they Colombians or of another nationality , are finding it very difficult to operate today . |
| 16 | Detectives are finding it very difficult to extract any information from the travelling communities |
| 17 | Mrs Fellows had been finding it increasingly difficult to cope with her usual activities due to her aching legs and tiredness . |
| 18 | All the men of the community who had to travel to the country every week to sell their goods — at least , any who did n't have his own means of transport — had for months been finding it increasingly difficult relying on the railways . |
| 19 | Others , less directly committed to change or worried as to how their institutions would cope with its demands , would , nevertheless , have been finding it increasingly difficult to regard school mathematics as fixed and unchangeable . [ … ] |
| 20 | Please do n't tell me to buy children 's shoes as I already do so when I need a flat pair , but I like high heels and am finding it increasingly difficult to buy them . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , after a shower of icy rain the temperature has dropped even lower and I am finding it very difficult to move my fingers , they are so numb . |
| 22 | The third group comprised the Party activists and functionaries themselves , who were finding it increasingly difficult to recruit new willing Party workers at the same time that their own work-load was being considerably enlarged . |
| 23 | By the late seventies and early eighties British players were finding it increasingly difficult to compete on the international scene . |
| 24 | Both sides were finding it ruinously expensive to keep up in the race . |
| 25 | NIAPA represents a significant number of small to medium sized farmers and recently one of their spokesmen said that it was quite clear that the anti-reform lobby were finding it extremely difficult to justify their arguments ! |
| 26 | At the end of that time , each one of them had experienced unpleasant symptoms ; some became hostile and argumentative ; some had panic attacks and nightmares ; all of them found their attention span had grown shorter and they were finding it more difficult to remember things . |
| 27 | Our offices had expanded very rapidly from 1986 onwards and we had to increase our production capacity here and we were finding it very difficult to recruit trained sewing machinists . |
| 28 | Circumscribed by the injunction — voiced or not , that the machines built around it should not pose a threat to IBM Corp 's proprietary product lines , the designers of the Power RISC created a chip that was heavily slewed towards scientific and technical applications — but the IBM world has changed out of all recognition since then and the RS/6000 is at least as widely used in commercial applications as in technical , while IBM is finding it increasingly hard to sell proprietary systems . |
| 29 | At the same time , the Association is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the requirements of all those who need our assistance . |
| 30 | And Michael Crawford , one of the Nice guys , is finding it unexpectedly hard to win . |