Example sentences of "difficult for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further problems may arise again on return to Britain as the pressure for places in the more popular independent or state schools makes it increasingly difficult for the expatriate to find suitable educational facilities for children . |
| 2 | It might be difficult for the boy to go so late , but there was no other way of educating him properly . |
| 3 | But such a definition was in effect very vague and blunt and was notoriously difficult for the Church to apply : it followed that many harmless groups were confused with heretical ones by the authorities in their attempts to control what was going on . |
| 4 | In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph at the end of his second year as Archbishop , Dr George Carey said the next 12 months would be difficult for the Church as it focused on the ordination of women to the priesthood . |
| 5 | it may be difficult for the management of an organisation to accept a matrix structure . |
| 6 | We do it innocently , without wishing the cat any harm , but it is sometimes difficult for the animal to appreciate this . |
| 7 | He heard the machine-gun fire from the helicopter , but it was difficult for the pilot to manoeuvre in such a tight space , even more difficult for the machine-gunner to take aim . |
| 8 | This makes it very difficult for the gent to aim straight when he next visits the loo . |
| 9 | And he said it was difficult for the jury to isolate the narrow questions that they were going to have to decide , which is whether these officers had er fabricated notes of an interview with one of the Birmingham Six , from all the information that they had . |
| 10 | It may be very difficult for the supplier 's marketing department to identify all of the individual sources of influence , or to evaluate their relative significance . |
| 11 | We can make it difficult for the respondent to do this by randomizing the direction of the successive ratings so that ‘ desirable ’ is sometimes on the left and sometimes on the right . |
| 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 | In 1992–93 , as the UK recession continued and banks went on reducing staff numbers , things became more difficult for the Institute and many of its members . |
| 14 | Of course it will be difficult for the child — the recipient of parental love — to appreciate affection and respond to it unless it is outwardly demonstrated . |
| 15 | If the members of the channel are strong ( by virtue of , say , a powerful trade association ) , then it will be difficult for the manufacturer to go outside the established channel . |
| 16 | Some students , there is no denying , are more charismatic and powerful on stage than others — and it is always very difficult for the system to be absolutely fair . |
| 17 | This hatred of Lloyd George on the part of both Baldwin and MacDonald made it very difficult for the Conservative or Labour Parties to contemplate either coalition with the Liberals , or even a tacit understanding with them to sustain a minority government ; and the politics of the 1920s can not therefore be understood without appreciating the widespread antagonism both to coalition and to Lloyd George personally . |
| 18 | Where you have a group of people and a brick comes out of the group and lands on a policeman 's head , then it 's very difficult for the law to attach individual and specific guilt to a particular individual . |
| 19 | Their flankers , Morgan and Williams , also made life very difficult for the Army half-backs . |
| 20 | It can be very difficult for the insurance company , after the event , to ascertain what precautions were taken so that , in many cases , they will pay out however you behaved . " |
| 21 | This architect specified radiused gutter proved extremely difficult for the builder to obtain , until the problem was solved by Apex after being able to fabricate the specification requirement |
| 22 | Sign language is difficult for the midwife to use , she does , after all , have her hands full at the delivery . |
| 23 | Reg Akehurst 's charge was a firm favourite for that contest and gave his backers not the slightest hint of a scare when leading at the furlong pole to score by a length-and-a-half. way off the pace makes an accurate assessment of his progress very difficult for the handicapper , but this observer is convinced there is significant improvement still to come . |
| 24 | In many situations , this process is difficult for the ideator to control — ideas just flow . |
| 25 | But anti-whaling nations , including the UK and USA , succeeded in delaying the resumption of whaling until at least next year , by insisting that further work on the formula needed to be undertaken , and by adding various amendments and qualifications which collectively would make it difficult for the plan to operate in practice . |
| 26 | It is true that the elections resulted in a House fairly evenly balanced between the two parties , but the fact that the elections came to be fought over the issue of the Church in Danger meant that those Tories who were returned were in no mood for compromise , with the result that the new House proved extremely difficult for the ministry to manage . |
| 27 | Implicit links have proved to be difficult for the machine to locate automatically but can be entered manually by the user in most hyper-text systems and in small-scale applications can provide very rich structures . |
| 28 | Even inset boards , where a child has to match a certain shape , e.g. a lorry to its silhouette , are difficult for the beginner who does n't always realise that he is trying to put it in upside-down . |
| 29 | A well trimmed model is much easier to fly and it is difficult for the beginner to trim a model without help . |
| 30 | Altolamprologus — these may be a little difficult for the beginner — and Telmatochromis bifrenatus or vittatus . |