Example sentences of "[modal v] have had [art] difficulty " in BNC.
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1 | Levi , the expert on metals , would have had no difficulty in telling the difference between gold and tin . |
2 | For Mrs Thatcher , the timing of President de Klerk 's announcement in the week before the Commonwealth conference is helpful , though she would have had no difficulty in resisting pressure there for further sanctions . |
3 | There was so much hostility to his Catholicism and his attack on chartered rights that it might have been thought William and Mary would have had no difficulty establishing their authority in America , but this was not what happened . |
4 | By the middle of the twelfth century , John 's French readers would have had no difficulty in making the necessary identifications : castellans and viscounts , baillis and prévôts , household officers , the clerks , knights , and chamberlains of princely courts abounded . |
5 | Charlie Williams took his number 14 bus to Shaftesbury Avenue , looked at Ken 's name in lights and had he heard anyone say anything against ‘ the boy ’ would have had no difficulty in punching him one . |
6 | But 300 years ago , a boy a quarter of his age , would have had no difficulty with double the number of oxen . |
7 | Equally , Mrs Smith argued , the common law would have had no difficulty in affording a right of action to parents in a case such as the present one . |