Example sentences of "find it [adj] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Countries that have developed a taste for gas-guzzling machinery are certain to find it difficult to turn back to animal power . |
| 2 | The evening proved to be extremely busy , and Juliet found it impossible to slip up to Hunter again . |
| 3 | And it was surprising how frequently they found it necessary to motor down to Edmonton or Calgary . |
| 4 | As to the first , it is not surprising that poorer citizens , especially those from more distant demes , found it hard to walk in to the frequent meetings of the Council ( though the argument from distance should not be overstated : Andokides ( i.38 ) mentions an early morning walk of twenty miles from Laurion to Athens as nothing special ) . |
| 5 | She was elected Labour MP for Sunderland in 1929 , but , like many other women parliamentarians of the period , found it hard to break in to the House of Commons debates . |
| 6 | And she was thrilled by that , for she found it hard to come back to a woman 's life in Egypt after tasting life in France . |
| 7 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 8 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | James Woods finds it hard to hang on to his sanity in this comic role |
| 11 | Straw-burning after harvest , now widely practised , exacerbates this problem , and some downland farmers are finding it necessary to go back to grass and more livestock to maintain the humus level and soil structure . |
| 12 | Finding it difficult to get down to middleweight , I decided to fight as a light-heavy in the University trials . |
| 13 | Her inner caution was warning her against this feeling , but was finding it hard to get through to her . |
| 14 | This can be decomposed as : where X 1 and X 2 are the proportion in the service class and intermediate class ( 0.134 and 0.308 ) respectively : 0.237 + ( 0.134 × 0.482 ) + ( 0.308 × 0.160 ) = 0.351 We shall consider equations like this for interval level variables later in the book ; you may find it useful to come back to this paragraph after you have read chapter 10 . |
| 15 | You will meet these patients again in the following chapters and may find it helpful to refer back to this chapter to refresh your memory when reading about them . |
| 16 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 17 | The little pinchable one will find it hard to settle down to housewife piety . |