Example sentences of "had [art] difficult [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers , who had the difficult problem of endeavouring to educate half-starved children , knew that their task would become still more onerous under the new scales : so they too joined in the demonstrations . |
| 2 | He had the difficult task in 1832–3 of reconciling his sympathy for the Whig government with pressing for the sort of positive action on emancipation which was acceptable both to a majority in the political and parliamentary class and antislavery militants in the country . |
| 3 | From this large number of candidates , the trustees had the difficult task of selecting just eight people who would receive grants . |
| 4 | The judges had the difficult task of choosing a winner from the 340 entries , but in the end the first prize , a bronze mounted otter , went to 10-year-old Helen Laughton from Cheadle , Cheshire . |
| 5 | He had the difficult task of taking the field around and beyond the covert and getting them to stand well back before he could attend to his hounds . |
| 6 | Cnut still had a difficult road to travel , but by the end of 1017 some major obstacles already lay behind him , and his position in England was much more secure than it had been twelve months earlier . |
| 7 | WALES had a difficult opening day in their Minor Counties |
| 8 | Margery became pregnant soon after her wedding , was continually sick during the pregnancy , and had a difficult childbirth . |
| 9 | Scottish Rig Repairers had a difficult year due to the low level of rig conversion and modification activities . |
| 10 | The other Britons , Ligier team-mates Mark Blundell and Martin Brundle , also had a difficult day . |
| 11 | Gimbert , on the other hand , had a difficult game against Griffiths and discovered that life in the international front row is more difficult than expected . |
| 12 | that he had a difficult job and that he was anxious to make things easy for his Liberal supporters . |
| 13 | Er , well , they had a difficult job , they had a difficult job you see , because they 'd got to keep explaining to you why you had n't got a rifle . |
| 14 | Er , well , they had a difficult job , they had a difficult job you see , because they 'd got to keep explaining to you why you had n't got a rifle . |
| 15 | We had a difficult job starting the car . |
| 16 | The Whips had a difficult job and were as usual a good body of men , but the accounts sent in to me showed me that each man in conducting this inquiry adopted a different emphasis according to his own character . |
| 17 | It 's a cliché to say that the judge had a difficult task but indeed he did have an unenviable job . |
| 18 | Dobry therefore had a difficult task of reconciling apparently irreconcilable objectives : to expedite planning procedures while at the same time facilitating greater public participation and devising a system which would produce better environmental results . |
| 19 | His compatriot , Alexandra Ledermann 's Punition , who beat Navet in the Paris World Cup round but who had a difficult flight to Del Mar , looked much more at ease at the official horse inspection here , after a few days ' rest . |
| 20 | I had a difficult time at one airport on a visit during the 1987 election . |
| 21 | The first women newsreaders had a difficult time because they were constantly ‘ filtered ’ through their sexuality . |
| 22 | Even the very best British tabby had a difficult time competing with such dramatic animals . |
| 23 | Heidrick and Struggles had a difficult time when the founders , Gardner Heidrick and John Struggles , left the firm in the early 1980s and there was a period of turmoil until an international partnership structure emerged . |
| 24 | Uralmash had a difficult time last year . |
| 25 | Lacking today 's liberal pre-trial discovery , 19th century United States shippers suing in the United States had a difficult time proving the carriers ' negligence . |
| 26 | He had a difficult time , having largely to rebuild the fleet in a period when every shipyard had an order book as long as your arm . |
| 27 | The five members of the jury had a difficult time choosing the winner from the eight finalists , says Colin Bruder , general manager of Guinness GmbH . |
| 28 | ‘ We had a difficult start to this season and our defence was making mistakes . |
| 29 | Well , we , we as you correctly say er with the whole industry had a , had a difficult August , I think the good news for Rover is that we fell less in volume terms than most of the competition , and indeed we marginally increased our market share . |
| 30 | She had a difficult labour as , having no details , the curvature of her spine was not detected . |