Example sentences of "it difficult [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engels always found it difficult to control the wild swings of his enthusiasms . |
| 2 | ‘ I would be prepared to write a leader on this project , but I would find it difficult to take the opposing point of view to that given in those two leaders . |
| 3 | The first autumn mists made it difficult to see the whole length of the reach . |
| 4 | Assuming that the organisation that is established to give help to prisoners in the Caribbean is based in England or Wales and is unconnected with any other charity , it will find it difficult to persuade the Inland Revenue that its activities are wholly charitable unless it is registered with the Charity Commission . |
| 5 | I left the team because the low pay would not cover the cost of my share in a mortgage to buy my own flat , and because I found it difficult to reconcile the separate roles of paid worker and friend , when Helen and Elizabeth recognised no such distinction . |
| 6 | When technological spillovers exist , firms find it difficult to appropriate the full benefits of their research activities . |
| 7 | This makes it difficult to define the precise level of services available in individual cases , but it does not prevent an attempt at drawing some general conclusions about the economic role of small towns . |
| 8 | The compassion and sympathy which the victims of these offences naturally cause in all policemen can sometimes be complicated by the anger and emotional hatred felt toward the perpetrator , and the tough type of policeman may find it difficult to distance the one reaction from the other . |
| 9 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 10 | The problem with such ladder filters is that , in general , each section loads the preceding one with a different impedance making it difficult to predict the overall performance of the ladder or to design a ladder to meet a given specification . |
| 11 | These factors interact making it difficult to predict the likely level of difficulty of a specific problem for pupils . |
| 12 | He found it difficult to pick the right words . |
| 13 | Financial markets are finding it difficult to evaluate the future worth of drugs firms . |
| 14 | But France 's own reliance on US financial support made it difficult to resist the Anglo-American policy . |
| 15 | Soviet allies sometimes found themselves opposed to each other ( such as the Ba'athist governments of Syria and Iraq , or Ethiopia and Somalia ) , and others entered into agreements with Soviet adversaries ( both Angola and Mozambique , for instance , signed non-aggression agreements with South Africa in 1984 , and Soviet clients generally found it difficult to resist the powerful influence of Western governments and corporations , or in the case of Ethiopia , relief agencies ) . |
| 16 | Even then , with a full glass of water , she found it difficult to swallow the powdery pieces . |
| 17 | When these are taken into account I have to confess that I find it difficult to understand the additional insights and explanations which the Marxist method offers . |
| 18 | Others find it difficult to accept the annual publication in the UK of some 70,000 new book titles . |
| 19 | Quite apart from the drafting problems that would be encountered , the imposition of such a system might well be resented by sentencers who would probably not find it difficult to subvert the intended aims through a process of ‘ destructive interpretation ’ . |
| 20 | Instead it was the ‘ trails ’ , which made it difficult to determine the middle line . |
| 21 | On Nov. 7 a government spokesman in Khartoum complained that splits in the SPLA would make it difficult to resume the Nigerian-mediated Abuja peace negotiations which were due to take place in December [ see pp. 38901 ; 38952 for previous peace talks ] . |
| 22 | ‘ The five survivors in the CR 42 formation were swinging to their right towards and below me , which made it difficult to attack the three planes nearest me , so I chose the outer of the two planes on their left , laid off a deflection and opened fire again . |
| 23 | Because its benefits are non-excludable , anybody providing a public good will find it difficult to get the other beneficiaries to pay for it . |
| 24 | Mary-Claude still found it difficult to match the popular image of America with her experience of it . |
| 25 | In fact I am finding it difficult to establish the exact terms of reference for this study , given that a number of related studies are already underway . |
| 26 | The Clow Committee had recognised there would be practical problems : the quarterly cycle of meter reading would make it difficult to concentrate the higher charge on the crucial months of December , January and February when demand was highest ; in really cold weather or if coal remained in short supply it would have only limited deterrent effect ; and off-peak demand might be adversely affected . |
| 27 | They make it difficult to equate the social tensions in the countryside with the economic processes at the heart of the Marxist interpretation . |
| 28 | This symbolic , familial structure of affiliation between firms of very different sizes makes it difficult to identify the exact extent of independent control especially where subcontractors supply the bulk of their output to one buyer . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , later changes will have obscured much of this early pattern , making it difficult to reconstruct the early framework . |
| 30 | We know from an HMI report of last year that more than three quarters of our secondary schools are finding it difficult to deliver the national curriculum because they do not have properly qualified staff in every subject . |