Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm fine , ’ Laura mumbled , so used to silence first thing in the morning that she was finding it incredibly difficult to carry on any form of conversation . |
| 2 | Many people at midlife find it incredibly hard to get time to sit down , let alone spend an extra hour in bed . |
| 3 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 4 | There has never been a single definitive statement of what are British objectives for policy in the EEC ; nor is it wholly reasonable to expect one . |
| 5 | Is it wholly chimerical to hope that a newly elected Tory government with an unassailable majority might do its duty , however painful for itself , and take the first steps to reverse this pernicious evil and restore the tried and tested order of our ancestors by which only those fitted to rule have any right to elect the government of this country under the Crown ? |
| 6 | who are closing their Newark operation you see , which has made it rather tricky to approach them . |
| 7 | There are those who think it rather offensive to erect such permanent climbing aids on a wild mountain , although we 're not exactly talking a carved mahogany banister with brass handrails . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've seen the way you look at him — and frankly we 've all found it rather embarrassing to see the lovesick look on your face whenever he 's anywhere near you . |
| 9 | This makes it rather impractical to implement a home produced system that can read bar codes from everyday products and provide the appropriate string of text . |
| 10 | Returning to Scheveningen with an unsold bale of cannabis on board he left it rather late to lose it overboard . |
| 11 | ‘ Is n't it rather unusual to make a display of your own collection of medieval artefacts ? |
| 12 | The difficulties of the student in arranging pupillage make it rather theoretical to give advice on the assumption that he can pick and choose . |
| 13 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 14 | With × 7 I find it rather difficult to see . |
| 15 | The English language is particularly rich in words we can use to describe our emotions , which makes it rather difficult to assess how many basic emotions there are . |
| 16 | He was going to find it rather difficult to talk for a few days , Kathleen realised . |
| 17 | Projectile weapons will kill anyone you want , but I 'd find it rather difficult to drill through the tunnel floor with an old Browning . ’ |
| 18 | So , is n't it rather difficult to adapt to what must seem like some of the trivial aches and pains suffered by his patients in England ? |
| 19 | Now I know some of you will find d er find it rather difficult to distinguish between those two . |
| 20 | Everything large or furry has been shot and eaten or skinned , or if it has n't been , it runs away while you 're still a long way off , which makes it rather difficult to film . |
| 21 | There 's a practical point here too — you may find it rather difficult to find an elegant belt suitable for evening wear . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , quite a lot , ’ said Jean , who found it rather hard to explain the number of duels , pursuits on horseback , quick changes of identity and narrow escapes from the authorities he had experienced by the age of twenty-four . |
| 23 | Taylor begged leave to deny that analogies drawn from lead mines in stratified rocks are to be applied to deep copper mines and he considered it rather hard to have " crude suggestions of this sort pressed upon us " . |
| 24 | ‘ It means that when I 'm with you I find it annoyingly hard to think straight . |
| 25 | Was it right even to burden the family with his plan ? |
| 26 | The Type II model may lead to inequity between health care groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , i.e. mainly elective surgery . |
| 27 | On the other hand , Type II systems would appear to allow little scope for equity between groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , that is mainly elective surgery . |
| 28 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
| 29 | It is Liszt who nevertheless looms largest in the anthology , and in whose music I found it most easy to understand Crimp 's belief in Levitzki as ‘ one of this century 's master pianists ’ . |
| 30 | Every two years the Medau College holds a Whitsuntide course for Medau teachers and I always find it most stimulating to renew contact with our German colleagues . |