Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] difficult for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also sceptical or the argument that parasuicides and the unemployed are linked by personality disorders which make it difficult for them to hold down jobs . |
| 2 | Not only does sectoralisation make it difficult for planners and administrators to gain an overall view , it also means that local institutions have to adopt a similar structure in order to deal adequately with the central bureaucracy . |
| 3 | As importantly , a fully enclosed heating element and rubber nozzle guard make it difficult for users to accidentally burn themselves . |
| 4 | To a large extent technology has eroded much of MI6 's original style of work while modern communications make it difficult for political decisions to remain secret for very long even behind the Iron Curtain . |
| 5 | I hope it will work but I have found that his natural impetuousness and importunity make it difficult for him to stick to any procedure ! |
| 6 | This will give you a head start and make it difficult for the driver to follow . |
| 7 | It made no reference to the possibility that schools for the less able might depress expectations and discourage the pupils in them , or make it difficult for such schools to attract an adequate share of available resources . |
| 8 | The members of the Highlands and Islands Development Board consider how the landscape and the climate make it difficult for people ( i ) to farm successfully ; ( ii ) to manage profitable industries , which use raw materials and fuel and sell goods to the large cities ; ( iii ) to obtain adequate services , such as hospitals , schools , and electricity or gas . |
| 9 | This is not only expressed through direct welfare , housing and educational provision to families which helps to ensure an adequate supply of suitable labour , but also in the reproduction of wider ideologies of popular consent which make it difficult for the rule to see the possibility of any other form of economic and political organization . |
| 10 | A third suggestion is that the black and white stripes dazzle the lion when it gets very close to its prey and make it difficult for the killer to concentrate on its fast-moving victim . |
| 11 | ‘ You make it difficult for me to leave . |
| 12 | It is useful for those of us who worry that hearing other opinions and listening to other people may weaken our case , or make it difficult for us to concentrate on our own determined agenda . |
| 13 | ‘ The Founders ’ rights make it difficult for NoS to be taken over , ’ they warned . |
| 14 | Whilst the relative decline of manufacturing was not a direct consequence of the expansion of services , there are obvious questions relating to the manner in which the relative attractiveness of services make it difficult for manufacturing to recruit high quality labour and whether their geographical concentration reinforced metropolitan attitudes within central government administration and , thus , indirectly worked against a clear understanding of regional industrial decline . |
| 15 | Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place . |
| 16 | It will ask why women put up with their subordinate position in society , or rather , examine the strength of the pressures which make it difficult for women to produce social change despite their continuing attempts to do so . |
| 17 | The fourth consideration concerns the informal but paternalistic social relations that exist between employer and employees on farms which make it difficult for farm workers even to consider industrial action . |
| 18 | It also notes that teachers ' present contracts make it difficult for them to find time to run extra-curricular activities like choirs . |
| 19 | Any er particularly bad points that make it difficult for you ? |
| 20 | If we 'll only buy highly coloured food , we make it difficult for the industry to eliminate the additives which provide them . |
| 21 | Such variations not only confuse users about the forms of headings , but also make it difficult for a cataloguer inserting a new heading for local use to discern the principles which should be heeded to retain consistency of approach . |
| 22 | I am afraid that the circumstances of the case — two people who were extremely drunk and who have a very hazy understanding of what went on — make it difficult for any charge to have any validity . |
| 23 | Stringent targets relating to carbon dioxide , sulphur dioxide and nox emissions make it difficult for coal to compete with other fuels , especially in power generation . |
| 24 | This information is increasingly becoming of local nature , C C T and L M S make it difficult for our national research department to deal with local issues . |
| 25 | The political leadership of the majority party and therefore the party in government and occupying ministerial office might find it politically expedient to preserve the rules and conventions which make it difficult for other politicians to call the bureaucracy to account . |
| 26 | They dig trenches which make it difficult for me to get out ? |
| 27 | Their manager , Alex MacDonald , an old Ranger himself , is clear about what his side can and can not do : ‘ We work hard and harass and make it difficult for the opposition . ’ |
| 28 | But if you make it difficult for cars people would consider park and ride . |
| 29 | Do you think you say there are difficulties for everyone , are you aware of any way in which erm men make it difficult for you , as a women , in a career sense ? |