Example sentences of "to make it difficult [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he thinks he 's the centre of the world and he was going to make it difficult for Angie to do what she wanted if it would affect his career . |
| 2 | When Beattie tried to hold evangelistic meetings in Hillsborough , he found the Church of Ireland aristocracy who controlled the parish council using planning laws to make it difficult for him to get a site . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's stopped snowing , ’ Paula remarked , ‘ but this fog is going to make it difficult for you . ’ |
| 4 | He turned up for a remand hearing at Redbridge court covered in baby oil to make it difficult for warders to grab hold of him . |
| 5 | The effect was to make it difficult for children to contribute to their own support , let alone the support of other people , thus removing the reciprocal nature of support between the young and their parents ' generation , and establishing childhood and youth as a period of one-way dependence of the young on their parents ( Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Anderson , 1980 ; Gittins , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | This is likely to make it difficult for them to check the reasonableness of their answers and to question their estimation of measurements . |
| 7 | In fact , benefits are so low as to make it difficult for a woman and her children to live on them , which puts pressure on her to find another male supporter . |
| 8 | Equally importantly , these code provisions are designed to make it difficult for a detained person to make unfounded allegations against the police which might otherwise appear credible . |
| 9 | Thus Deacon has shown how ‘ the genuinely seeking work test ’ was manipulated in the 1920s to make it difficult for unemployed people to establish their claim to benefit . |
| 10 | She was grateful for the air-conditioning , because she was quite well aware that her unruly emotions were going to make it difficult for her to sleep . |
| 11 | The recall instructions were specifically designed to make it difficult for subjects to use previous knowledge in the task and attempts were made to prevent them from mentally retracing the route , a strategy which several of them would otherwise have adopted . |
| 12 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
| 13 | His naturally long strides , she suspected , he was deliberately making even longer in order to make it difficult for her to catch up ! |
| 14 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |