Example sentences of "[noun pl] find [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some young readers find it disturbing , not because the characters lack emotion but because the whole story expresses emotional immaturity or instability . |
| 2 | MINISTER David Mellor 's toes might thrill Antonia de Sancha — but Britain 's teenagers find him a right turn-off . |
| 3 | In particular , traditional descriptive and analytic methods find it difficult to contemplate such phenomena as : ( 1 ) close approximation of phones without merger ; ( 2 ) overlapping allophones ; ( 3 ) flip-flops , and ( 4 ) reversal of merger . |
| 4 | Brasshats do , and , seemingly , leaders of nations find it utterly impossible . |
| 5 | Once in the city the time-travellers find it far from dead . |
| 6 | An election campaign in which the two principal parties find it difficult to believe what the opinion polls are telling them is a rum do . |
| 7 | Some users and classifiers find it beneficial to have a notation which is sufficiently flexible to permit a variety of citation orders to be adopted as appropriate to the document and the user 's perspective . |
| 8 | is n't for all kids — some kids find it excruciating ; boring , meaningless and fruitless as well 'cos they 're not going to get anything . |
| 9 | As with most coupes there is not a lot of room in the back , even kids find it tight . |
| 10 | The figs themselves are hardly bigger than acorns , but there are huge quantities of them and all kinds of animals find them irresistible . |
| 11 | Night Goblins find it necessary to occasionally descend into the chill depths in search of exotic funguses , so they know all too well what dangers await them . |
| 12 | Schools find it quite easy to adapt to this kind of grouping where they are dealing with ‘ marginal ’ subjects like music theory . |
| 13 | Like small men , small cars find it hard to be taken seriously . |
| 14 | They say they have never encountered any problems in being an all-female firm ; if anything , they find that a lot of their male clients find it easier to talk to a woman about their finances . |
| 15 | A preliminary exploratory questionnaire study made it clear that subjects find it very difficult to give accident figures unless they have some anchors for their estimates . |
| 16 | We have seen the problems facing these mutations in the natural habitat , but in captivity their chances are far higher , because some fishkeepers find them interesting and attractive , and attempt to propagate them . |
| 17 | When at last his parents find him sitting among the teachers in the Temple , they ask him what he is doing . |
| 18 | Natural parents find it just as hard to understand and meet the needs of their adolescent children . |
| 19 | Children find it difficult to come to terms with the responsibilities involved , and parents find it difficult to relinquish them . |
| 20 | Some parents find it easier for everyone concerned to talk to someone outside the immediate family . |
| 21 | One argument is indisputable : that unless there is investment on an enormous scale on the improvement of provision , the reality of day-care experiences for unknown but substantial numbers of young children whose parents find it necessary or choose to work , is likely to remain a cause of concern . |
| 22 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |
| 23 | It was about how difficult inventors find it to raise finance to bring their inventions to market , no matter how promising the inventions may be , and how many potentially marketable creations are languishing for lack of capital , since the financial institutions are either not interested or not prepared to take risks with anything which is not already established . |
| 24 | Regulators find it difficult to ensure that the regulated really do produce on the lowest possible cost curve . |
| 25 | The composer came here from the nearby orphanage where he was raised , and today visitors find it a similarly welcoming refuge . |
| 26 | Day continues : ‘ Very few outlets would warrant more than one product , and that is usually a lager , so ale brands find it quite difficult to get in-trade distribution . ’ |
| 27 | No , I do n't want a lecture on the birds and the bees , I was just wondering where software companies find them , and how they learn their art in the first place ? |
| 28 | Companies find it increasingly difficult to attract the right people in the £14,000 to £18,000 range unless they offer a car . |
| 29 | Many sites find it useful to have an ‘ R&D ’ LIFESPAN , where ideas on configuration control structures , user hierarchies etc. , can be tested out before implementation in the live LIFESPAN Process . |
| 30 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Newman however relied on certain additional points which had apparently been raised by him before the Divisional Court , but which the court did not in the circumstances find it necessary to consider in its judgment . |