Example sentences of "had be [art] difficult " in BNC.

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1 It had been a difficult task .
2 It had been a difficult time for everyone , but especially Diana , who was perhaps closest to her father of all the children .
3 Handicapper Ted Kelly admitted it had been a difficult task rating Vintage Crop .
4 The drive to Kent had been a difficult , slow journey hampered by the volume of tourists who poured on and off the cross-Channel ferries .
5 Yes , Nicandra thought , it had been a difficult day , what with everything .
6 Who to invite had been a difficult point .
7 It had been a difficult decision , but she was sure it had been the right one .
8 The 1992 dispute had been a difficult one , especially for people working together and with commitment .
9 The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’
10 It had been a difficult afternoon , and she was not sure she was up to an evening of trying to extract information from Jamie Baird .
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