Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pers pn] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made it difficult to work out the company 's exposure to open contracts at any given time and this , in turn , allowed Mr Koval to indulge in ‘ extensive trading outside any limit contemplated by the plaintiff 's board ’ . |
| 2 | It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly . |
| 3 | This made it difficult to draw conclusions . |
| 4 | These were slow to develop , and the realisation of this made it difficult ( even had they wished to do so ) for Ministers to treat them like private sector companies , subject largely to control by fiscal and monetary policies rather than detailed intervention on capital spending . |
| 5 | This made it difficult for modernist aesthetics to become oppositional . |
| 6 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |
| 7 | Sabine found it difficult to breathe . |
| 8 | Julia , who when nervous found it difficult to see things clearly , started the long haul down the lilac carpet . |
| 9 | Many found it difficult to give accurate figures as the livestock year dictated two very definite peak work periods . |
| 10 | The ways cards made spending — and overspending — so easy and painless made it difficult for people not to treat the plastic rectangles as money . |
| 11 | The proliferation of regional ale brands since the sector 's launch in 1988 made it difficult to build a national product that would kick-start it in the way that Perrier set off the mineral water market in the seventies . |