Example sentences of "find it difficult [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says , ‘ I found it difficult at first having to relinquish the coaching responsibilities , but it was great working with Rob . |
| 2 | Celia hoped they were still loyal enough to be decently enthusiastic , even if they found it difficult at first to appreciate the new subtlety of Yorick 's music . |
| 3 | As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us . |
| 4 | ‘ He has tried to draft in fresh faces , and found it difficult for them to fit in . |
| 5 | He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions . |
| 6 | Mould found it difficult to be so quiet . |
| 7 | But again I found it difficult to be rude . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew all about calories , but I really enjoyed food and found it difficult to lost weight ! |
| 9 | Critics of policies of that period like Samuel Brittan have suggested that chancellors found it difficult to time their uses of the economic ‘ brake ’ or ‘ accelerator ’ properly , and that the ‘ stop-go ’ pattern that emerged provided a poor economic environment for investment decisions , and thus inhibited British growth . |
| 10 | Her breathing had returned to normal and the terror that had seized her when fitzAlan had turned those savage ice-blue eyes on her had receded somewhat , but her limbs still felt shaky and she found it difficult to properly comprehend what Ralf had said . |
| 11 | ‘ But I had reached the stage where I found it difficult to be motivated for run-of-the-mill games . |
| 12 | Many who subscribed to COS principles in theory found it difficult in practice to abandon to destitution or the Poor Law many who were in desperate and immediate need . |
| 13 | Part of his apparently subdued reaction to the Nobel no doubt sprang from a genuine lack of confidence in his ability to continue writing ( it was not , for him , a novel feeling ) but he also found it difficult in conversation to react to praise or flattery — like Coriolanus , he did not like to hear his " nothings monster 'd " . |
| 14 | The user finds it difficult to narrow down his or her search . |
| 15 | FAXgrabber finds it difficult to ‘ read ’ material unless it is in high or fine resolution . |
| 16 | For not only are they bad for women — who find it difficult to be canonized unless they are nuns , queens or martyrs — but equally they form another monolith . |
| 17 | Therefore , we find it difficult to ‘ line up ’ behind a common cause . |
| 18 | Governments , rightly , find it difficult to be overtly discriminatory , or to specialise in idiosyncratic ways . |
| 19 | I just find it difficult to be interested in clothes or how I look . |
| 20 | can I suggest and I du n no , it might not work we have a lot of children who find it difficult to wo to work at home could we hold a detention in the resource centre for the hour so if other children want to use it , I do n't know , is it open after school ? |
| 21 | I find it difficult with × 7 , fairly easy with × 8.5 and very easy with any higher magnification . |
| 22 | I find it difficult in my notes that they 're all so mathematical , that you just read through lines and lines of equations and there 's very few sentences in between to explain what 's going on . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll be in touch , ’ he said loudly before he left , and Alyssia shook her head in frustration , finding it difficult to be angry , even though he had blackened her yet more in Piers 's eyes . |
| 24 | If this is to be the structure , it is good to go with it from the outset : once groups are established and running , you may find it difficult for group members to ‘ own ’ such a threatening idea ! |
| 25 | It is possible that you might find it difficult at first to make time for exercise . |
| 26 | Julius needs to maintain a certain lifestyle , and you might find it difficult at first to cope with the demands he 'll make on you . ’ |
| 27 | Did you find it difficult at the beginning , I mean to kill , kill the animals and cut |
| 28 | I realise that there are many young Asian women living in Britain today who might find it difficult to be different from their friends at school . |
| 29 | Further , a family member may find it difficult to " let go " of the primary sufferer while he or she is in treatment and may still want to find out everything that goes on in a treatment centre on a day-to-day basis and there by continue to " fix " by proxy . |
| 30 | And indeed I would submit that Leeds would find it difficult to actually accommodate the migration assumption which is w would be implied by sticking to the revised plan , mid-year estimate figure . |