Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pers pn] difficult " in BNC.

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1 The second type is where the child has a disability which prevents or makes it difficult for him or her to make use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided in schools — within the LEA 's area — for children of his/her age .
2 Some computer programs are marketed in a form that makes them difficult to copy .
3 There is , therefore , a longitudinal dimension to the condition that makes it difficult to arrive at hard and fast diagnostic rules .
4 But there is an interdependence between the various themes in his work that makes it difficult to deal with them in isolation .
5 There is a circularity in these arguments about the consequences of literacy that makes it difficult to test them out or to apply them fruitfully elsewhere .
6 A major weakness , however , is that this element is fitted only roughly into the discussion , in a way that makes it difficult to integrate the dynamic with the static features of the analysis .
7 It 's the interchangeableness of this , these words that makes it difficult to understand
8 Alright , simply because erm , there is , inelastic demand alright , and if there 's a very bad crop throughout the world , prices will suddenly just , just sky-rocket for , for one or two years , so that makes it difficult to pick out an underlying trend because sometimes agricultural prices are very , very high .
9 She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her .
10 The patient is chilly and irritable and finds it difficult to cope .
11 If I feel that a particular patient is suffering from extreme tension and finds it difficult to relax , then I may suggest that , during the two weeks following the regression session , he simply practises a basic relaxation exercise for a few minutes a day .
12 This limits the activities of the educational institutions in the region and makes it difficult for the administrative centres to do their job , which includes developing technical training projects and teacher training .
13 Congestion gives rise to heavy costs for Edinburgh 's economy and makes it difficult to run a reliable ‘ bus service .
14 Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed .
15 This magnet effect not only puts pressure on the south east but makes it difficult for other regions to attract the type of investment necessary for their own economic revival .
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