Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adj] difficulty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 2 | Although I was hungry , I had great difficulty in digesting and so my nights were bad . |
| 3 | When I left the army a couple of years ago , I had great difficulty coming to terms with my change in status . |
| 4 | ‘ I had great difficulty coming to terms with it and adjusting to the problem . |
| 5 | I found coming into Suffolk from Hertfordshire I had n't heard the , any East Anglian dialect before at all erm I did n't find it difficult , there were only two cases and I can remember thinking there were two people er , one of whom is still alive , er who I had great difficulty in understanding and I thought when I can follow both of them without any difficulty I shall know I really belong . |
| 6 | I had similar difficulties with the use of phrases like ‘ working-class youth values ’ when writing up research on subcultures ( Davies 1985a ) : in the singular ‘ a youth ’ does mean a young man , and hence while writers may use ‘ the youth of today ’ to imply generalizations across male and female , the connotation is still of a masculine prominence and centrality in adolescent affairs . |
| 7 | But I had considerable difficulty in tracking any down . |
| 8 | I had considerable difficulty in dissuading him from this course and only did so when I was able to convince him that , far from assisting Aitken , it would damage his cause . |
| 9 | I have great difficulty believing this , ’ was the immediate reaction of Essex secretary Peter Edwards , who has known the Gooches longer than most . |
| 10 | I have great difficulty in accepting this concept of a need as a psychological construct . |
| 11 | I have great difficulty in picking them up with binoculars , but with × 7 I find that the best method is to start at the Delta-Epsilon pair and then proceed to Lambda ( 3.8 ) ; M12 forms a triangle with Lambda and Epsilon . |
| 12 | I have great difficulty in distinguishing between my property and anyone else 's , or at least I used to , but I do not like to be dismissed as stupid . |
| 13 | I needed no second bidding and , in the last two weeks of Lent , when Benjamin fasted on water and salted fish and abstained from wine ( I did the same during the day but , at night , I always crept out to one of the nearby taverns ; I have great difficulty fasting for I get this terrible thirst ! ) , |
| 14 | I have great difficulty coming to terms with all that was being said under H one about migration and the relationship to Leeds and the idea that it matters enormously in the realm exactly where this new settlement , which I hope does go ahead , actually goes . |
| 15 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |
| 16 | Shortly before he died , Mary had noticed that she had great difficulty swallowing food , had gone to her doctor and he had organized X-rays and tests at the local hospital . |
| 17 | In her room Sally eventually managed to get out of her dress though her hands were trembling so much she had great difficulty with the zipper . |
| 18 | She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding . |
| 19 | As a foreigner she had great difficulty getting admitted there as an apprentice , but eventually succeeded with assistance from the Duke of Orleans . |
| 20 | It took a minute to dawn and then she had great difficulty in not laughing . |
| 21 | She had great difficulty getting herself accepted on a government-sponsored TOPS course because she was considered over-qualified . |
| 22 | There was something about cutter work — glamour , adventure , battling the elements , or just plain escapism — call it what you will , but once you had experienced it you had great difficulty in settling down to the more prosaic existence ashore . |
| 23 | If you have genuine difficulty in keeping to the diet in this book or any other diet , your best bet is to go back to the calorie-counting method , supervised by a diet club , dietitian , or doctor . |
| 24 | ‘ But when you look at the legislation , which has been in many ways draconian for the situation which exists today , you have great difficulty in saying who is and who is not under the age of 16 . |
| 25 | The car broke down , we had great difficulty in collecting the Christmas trees from Jackson 's farm and Ted got into a quite a suicidal mood . |
| 26 | I am sure my hon. Friend well remembers the Committee stage of the Atomic Weapons Establishment Act 1991 when we had great difficulty in discussing the measure properly because the Department would not release the necessary information . |
| 27 | We had great difficulty getting information on the atomic energy privatisation measure . |
| 28 | For the first week , and even later , we had great difficulty in remembering their names , since their names , as well as their faces seemed so alike : for example , we have a number of Li 's , Chu 's , Chang 's and Huang 's ; and even the occasional odd name , like Fang and Kuo , is not particularly helpful . |
| 29 | We had initial difficulties in integrating aspects of course delivery and assessment , largely due to the timing of the new qualification . |
| 30 | We have similar difficulties when we look at such aspects as soul and intelligence : these have a profound effect on our daily existence , yet we have problems whenever we try to quantify them . |