Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was going to find it rather difficult to talk for a few days , Kathleen realised . |
| 2 | We expect to find it increasingly difficult to do so at short notice because our budgets are under mounting pressure . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got part-time players and three or four are going to find it extremely difficult to get time off work . |
| 4 | I 'd have thought he 's going to find it extremely difficult down here to find a job . |
| 5 | I had begun to find it very difficult , at that stage of my life , to memorize new music . |
| 6 | One further point of possible confusion : because venture capital from investors looking for capital gains is not available to co-operatives , they are likely to find it more difficult to raise the larger sums of money needed to start capital-intensive projects . |
| 7 | Kelly found it hilariously difficult to concentrate . |
| 8 | She went vaguely back to occasional journalism and found it increasingly difficult to sleep in the evenings and get up in the mornings . |
| 9 | November had been a damp and drizzly month , bringing shorter days and causing aggravation to those people who found it increasingly difficult to travel in the blackout . |
| 10 | And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights . |
| 11 | Even the most loyal officials found it increasingly difficult to defend serfdom on moral grounds . |
| 12 | The settlement houses were as active as before but showed little sign of expansion , indeed Toynbee Hall found it increasingly difficult to attract residents . |
| 13 | The USA , however , found it increasingly difficult to remain outside the conflict . |
| 14 | At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it . |
| 15 | Leaving school at the age of twelve , Merrick found it increasingly difficult to find employment because of his deformities , and after jobs in a cigar factory and as a haberdashery pedlar he entered the Leicester Union Workhouse in 1879 . |
| 16 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 17 | Later , after Calandrini had attended the synod of Dort and finished his studies in theology under John Prideaux [ q.v. ] at Exeter College , Oxford , graduating BD in 1620 , he found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his Calvinism with De Dominis 's Catholic syncretism . |
| 18 | Despite the promise of great ornithological rewards if he stayed , Gould found it immensely difficult to remain inactive while there was so much work to be done . |
| 19 | Such ventures , however , left out those who were most disturbed or withdrawn and hence who found it most difficult to work ; these were left to idle their time away on the wards , and it was always a struggle to find sufficient financial investment in equipment and raw materials to establish and maintain occupational ventures . |
| 20 | I think we found it quite difficult to provide the range of services at fully competitive prices and the one thing that this merger will do is to make us much more competitive . ’ |
| 21 | It 's very difficult , and I think that people involved in the Gardener Centre have , ever since its inception , found it quite difficult to work how quite how it fits into the overall Brighton scene , and I find it fascinating to look at the nature of facilities which exist in central Brighton and try and work out in one 's own mind how best he facility of the Gardener fits in with that . |
| 22 | And she found it terribly difficult to get dresses ! |
| 23 | He found it so difficult to concentrate . |
| 24 | When it actually came to writing rather than vaguely thinking about his address , Henry found it more difficult than he had expected . |
| 25 | Everyone was given equal space and care was given to those of us who found it more difficult because of being deaf or having a speech difficulty . |
| 26 | For example , while some companies may have been able to ignore the social protest of individuals who suffered the effects of industrial pollution , they found it more difficult to resist organized groups of citizens whose opposition accompanied a marked decline in support for the LDP . |
| 27 | He expected to be patronized by Lady Grubb because he came from a lower class , about which he did n't generally care tuppence , but when he saw her effect on Algy he found it more difficult than usual to be ribald about it . |
| 28 | I found it more difficult to talk to him , somewhere he or I had changed . |
| 29 | I am tempted to accept the Minister 's explanation of his motivation , but those in my constituency , one of the poorest in the country , who made claims at the time of the reforms found it more difficult to obtain any decent benefits from the system . |
| 30 | This , plus strengthening of the laws against vagrancy in 1714 , 1740 and 1744 , meant that many of the lower orders found it more difficult and more risky to move over long distances . |