Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] difficult [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police officers who have taken statements from detainees will also be exempted from being questioned in court unless they agree to do so , making it difficult for detainees to challenge the validity of any confessions made under torture . |
| 2 | The hormone progestogen taken regularly every day at the same time causes changes making it difficult for sperm to enter the womb or for the womb to accept a fertilised egg . |
| 3 | But he was also occupying space behind the defenders , making it difficult for attackers to get in on passes . ’ |
| 4 | A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand . |
| 5 | The guns firing from the direction of the River Orne were making it difficult for me to hear what Taff was now saying . |
| 6 | The institutions which had previously been set up to aid small farmers had their lending capacity cut considerably , making it difficult for many of the beneficiaries to find sufficient capital . |
| 7 | His left Achilles tendon became badly shortened , making it difficult for him to put his foot to the floor , and he had a strong positive supporting reaction in his foot . |
| 8 | Such policies have an impact on new , emergent industrial nations as export markets and revenues are curtailed thus making it difficult for LDCs to service external debts . |
| 9 | Some prey species such as the oryx ( opposite , top ) , rely on simple , powerful galloping to escape their pursuers , but others , such as the impala ( below ) , employ a more confusing , zigzag escape route , with sudden directional changes making it difficult for the pursuing attacker to strike . |
| 10 | The SEC 's case , according to BASF finance director Max Dietrich Kley , is that the chemical giant 's figures understate profits , making it difficult for investors to compare them with those of other concerns . |
| 11 | If the teeth are allowed to become sharp , the cheek then becomes bruised and cut , causing pain thus making it difficult for the horse to chew properly . |
| 12 | disturbing the surface of the pond , making it difficult for a bird or cat to spot the fish |
| 13 | The continued flood of repossessed properties on to the market is depressing prices , which in turn is making it difficult for the building societies and other lenders to take the normal escape route for those who are unable to keep up their payments — the sale of the house . |
| 14 | We seem to have a breed of unadventurous promoters who can only offer us the likes of Grooverider and Carl Cox , making it difficult for talented newcomers to get the break they deserve . |
| 15 | Also , natural fibre such as bran products tend to bind to calcium , making it difficult for the body to use the calcium , making supplements more necessary than ever . |
| 16 | We 're not pressing teams and making it difficult for them , which has previously been the basis of our success . |
| 17 | Ironically , their improvement , coupled with their highly superior resources , is making it difficult for smaller , less well funded schemes to survive . |
| 18 | No public inquiry report has yet been written in the ICAO format , making it difficult for researchers into air safety matters to extract the information they are looking for . |
| 19 | Aggressive behaviour creates enemies , which can induce greater fear and a sense of paranoia , making it difficult for you to relax . |
| 20 | Also official intervention has become much less effective in this environment , making it difficult for governments to oppose trends established by private sector transactions . |
| 21 | The welfare state therefore acts as a ceiling over the heads of those on low incomes , making it difficult for them to move up through their own efforts . |
| 22 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 23 | And it was this same movement that was now making it difficult for the distant beetles to get back to the professor . |
| 24 | Clare 's solicitor explained to her that men often forced their wives to return by refusing to grant a divorce and making it difficult for them to obtain money — even when it was awarded by a court . |
| 25 | Competitive firms are often thought to lack the resources to do effective R&D , and vigorous price competition means that all of the gains to innovation are passed on to consumers , making it difficult for firms to generate the profits necessary to finance R&D . |
| 26 | The rain had almost stopped , but various projections over the pavement in Fleet Street dripped on Dyson as he passed , wetting the lenses of his spectacles and making it difficult for him to see where he was going . |
| 27 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 28 | The tempo of his caresses quickened , making it difficult for her to think . |
| 29 | At her sudden acquiescence , he made a little sound of satisfaction deep in his throat and his embrace tightened , becoming almost painful in its intensity , making it difficult for her to breathe . |
| 30 | It then , in October , expressed its concern that a high proportion of courses in subjects other than business studies were being turned down , and it suggested that one of the reasons making it difficult for such courses to be approved might be that ‘ the Council 's present structure of honours and ordinary degrees was not so appropriate for courses in those fields ’ as in science and technology . |