Example sentences of "found it [adj -er] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture of Dreadnought was so wide of the mark that Willis found it better to say nothing , simply making a gesture which had something in common with a petty officer 's salute . |
| 2 | We found it safer to hold on with two hands then . |
| 3 | Progress was so slow that many found it quicker to abandon their carriages and continue on foot . |
| 4 | I think subsequently she found it harder to deal with . ’ |
| 5 | er well I found it harder to do it |
| 6 | Successive chancellors found it easier to borrow the ready-made currency in the possession of the Gens Redburna in return for Imperial Notes of Hand ; interest was paid on the loans . |
| 7 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 8 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 9 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 10 | She found it easier to live in a faint fog , at one remove from what most people called reality . |
| 11 | The student found it easier to curb his own aggressive feelings to John when he defined John 's anger as a partial manifestation of anxiety . |
| 12 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 13 | It was quieter there than elsewhere , and he found it easier to sleep . |
| 14 | Like Tilda , he found it easier to sleep when he could hear the lighters , like iron coffins on Resurrection Day , clashing each other at their moorings all night , and behind that the whisper of shoal water . |
| 15 | In some cases the development officer found it easier to substitute support workers for a home help . |
| 16 | Henry concentrated on Donald 's face and , as so often these days , found it easier to look as if he was listening by doing the reverse . |
| 17 | Rather like those nineteenth-century American ladies who often found it easier to fight for slaves , or Indians , or heathens or The Poor than for themselves . |
| 18 | On the other hand , even those who listened with loathing or contempt found it easier to have a real man with whom the sneering drawl could at last be identified . |
| 19 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 20 | I do n't think he found Ward 's accent at all easy , and anyway , like many foreigners , he found it easier to speak English than to understand it . |
| 21 | I found it easier to systematise my trial-and-error searching by restricting the possible moves , thus reducing a wider problem to a subproblem . |
| 22 | After four years of strife reconciliation of the PLO factions in Algiers in April 1987 was reflected on the ground , as the various groups found it easier to accept their differences and to agree on the importance of national unity . |
| 23 | This gave them a cushion of safety but often meant that the opposition found it easier to make space in midfield . |
| 24 | It was all quite dispiriting and I subsequently found it easier to work with museum officials . |
| 25 | But now , looking at the lined , self-knowing expression of this consummate dissembler , Harry found it easier to believe he had merely staged a performance , an expert and convincing charade that had achieved the desired result . |
| 26 | It is difficult to escape the conclusion , however , that hard-headed Protestants found it easier to attack what they did not like in magic without compromising their religion . |
| 27 | I could not help feeling that this particular meeting of ours proved a milestone , at least for me ; and thereafter I found it easier to get through to him , as in after years I sometimes needed to do , on that wavelength . |
| 28 | Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again . |
| 29 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |
| 30 | Children found it easier to communicate than their parents , but were primarily concerned about learning more about the seizures . |