Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] have difficulty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents often have difficulties getting their children to sleep . |
| 2 | Airline pilots commonly have difficulty in sleeping properly after long flights , especially when there have been time-zone changes . |
| 3 | Managers often have difficulty in identifying their own goals let alone the goals of others . |
| 4 | This increase has clear policy implications since these elderly people tend to live in the worst accommodation , and owners often have difficulties in undertaking their own , or paying for , maintenance . |
| 5 | Secondly , hemiplegic patients often have difficulties eating , chewing and swallowing , and this can seem repulsive to the carer . |
| 6 | Pure scientists always have difficulty getting funding in harsh economic times . |
| 7 | This approach also explains why engineers and ergonomists sometimes have difficulties in reaching agreement . |
| 8 | Thus , although these pupils generally have difficulty with reading , this does not mean that written tests should be ruled out . |
| 9 | Subs on the Guardian are relatively light-handed , but reporters on some tabloids often have difficulty recognising their own work — especially if it clashes with the view of the proprietor . |
| 10 | Nurses frequently have difficulty in conveying the exact meaning of messages to patients and relatives . |
| 11 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 12 | If Soviet women choose to ignore men 's dinner-time conversation it is not necessarily because they lack education : it may be that these women too have difficulty getting a word in and risk being verbally assaulted by men 's sexism . |