Example sentences of "it difficult [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it difficult to take orders , to be a follower rather than a leader , but I would n't have accepted if I was n't confident that I could make some contribution to the station . |
| 2 | Julia , who when nervous found it difficult to see things clearly , started the long haul down the lilac carpet . |
| 3 | I really find it difficult to see benefits in L M S. |
| 4 | People seem to prefer that which is informal , spontaneous and unrehearsed , and the lack of stimulus presented by much of the ‘ new look ’ music makes it difficult to persuade musicians to be committed on a regular basis . |
| 5 | Problems identified by the librarian and other members of the library committee included : ( 1 ) inappropriate and inflexible shelving , making it difficult to shelve books in Dewey order ; |
| 6 | Where members find it difficult to access courses , seminars , etcetera there is scope for them to organise their own structured discussion groups within their work-place or locality , perhaps using television programmes or videos to provide the structure Subject matter : Technical and regulatory aspects ( knowledge and application ) ; and development of interpersonal and management skills . |
| 7 | Conservatives will be embarrassed and will find it difficult to defend increases in civil service salaries . |
| 8 | This made it difficult to draw conclusions . |
| 9 | The qualities of initiative , responsibility and loyalty which they demanded from the soldier were very different from the passive obedience and mechanical discipline typified by the army of Frederick II ( which , significantly , found it difficult to create units of this kind ) . |
| 10 | Because of the different nature of employment most of the part-time farmers would find it difficult to arrange days off to attend training courses , meetings , etc . |
| 11 | Likewise , changes in law may make it difficult to compare figures through time even within one country , e.g. introduction of the breathalyser in 1967 makes it very hard to relate road accident figures before and after this date . |
| 12 | A force eight wind was blowing straight into our faces , making it difficult to hold binoculars steady . |
| 13 | The Tamil speaker would therefore find it difficult to pronounce words as " lake " and " lamp " . |
| 14 | In particular non-disclosure makes it difficult to answer charges that the government 's policies are not properly coordinated . |
| 15 | The two men were about the same age , nearing fifty ; both were of the lean kind with strong features and over-thin lips ; both were taciturn and found it difficult to put ideas into words . |
| 16 | I asked , ‘ Is it difficult to sell paintings ? ’ , thinking this a quite decorous way of framing my question . |
| 17 | Debt-financed companies may then find it difficult to sell shares to shareholders who will be skeptical of the likelihood of adequate dividends . |
| 18 | Well , we had neither : the sun was already moving down into the west , making it difficult to judge depths by water colour , and the seas were definitely not moderate . |
| 19 | All too often students find it difficult to appreciate links between concepts encountered in different courses , or confidently to recognise formal analogies between different contexts . |
| 20 | If they are members they would find it difficult to refute charges of a breach of the Code of Conduct . |
| 21 | MORE men could be finding it difficult to father children because the average sperm count has halved in the last 50 years , an expert revealed yesterday . |
| 22 | The shape of the jaws makes it difficult to swallow mammals and there are no records of man-eating . |
| 23 | Sheep producers , in particular , found it difficult to escape worries about continuing fixed and variable cost increases and the ending of the sheepmeat variable premium that put a floor in the market . |
| 24 | Forty cases of illegal logging have been brought to court in the last three years , but the loophole in the regulations makes it difficult to prove charges , so a technique is being developed to date the year of felling , using tree rings . |
| 25 | Because there is little tradition of using research , social workers find it difficult to suggest areas for investigation and most of the running is , therefore , made by central government . |
| 26 | I am not a very social sort of person and I find it difficult to have strangers in my home . ’ |
| 27 | In other words , she may find it difficult to relate sequences of letters to their appropriate pronunciation . |
| 28 | The secretiveness of the Alien Office 's work makes it difficult to provide details of Brooke 's activities : ‘ My duties have ever been of the most confidential nature , ’ he wrote to R. B. Jenkinson , second Earl of Liverpool , in 1809 . |
| 29 | They also make it difficult to show connections and relationships between different information on the same page or elsewhere in your file . |
| 30 | This makes it difficult to place students in ‘ responsible line management roles which make up a valuable part of their training as chartered accountants in business ’ . |