Example sentences of "difficulty [prep] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All who have become aware of the plight of Tony Bland and the anguish of his parents will have been moved by the agony of their dilemma and the acute difficulty of coming to the right decision . |
| 2 | Towards the end of field-work a constable newly transferred to the Neighbourhood Unit from one of the sections expressed his difficulties in adjusting to the new round of duties , stating that it was more difficult to pass the time because nothing seemed to happen ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 16 ) : establishing informal contact with the public was not yet itself seen as doing police work and boredom was unappealing . |
| 3 | He acknowledged that the students may at first find difficulties in adjusting to the Scottish education system , the language , the weather and life in Edinburgh , and said that he hopes that these awards will remind overseas students that the University has confidence in them . |
| 4 | I also pay tribute to the professionalism of the emergency services , who naturally faced difficulties in getting to the injured and in getting them out of the tunnel for treatment . |
| 5 | George said : ‘ The majority of staff are non-smokers and of those who do smoke , it is likely that most will have little difficulty in adjusting to the smoking ban . |
| 6 | Lacking experience of that kind , casual listeners may have difficulty in responding to the finer musical distinctions that make an individual performance unique . |
| 7 | However , even the ten-year-olds were still having difficulty in responding to the linguistic cues to the deductive mode , as was shown by the deductive/empirical experiment . |