Example sentences of "[verb] it difficult for the " in BNC.

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1 This may make it difficult for the counsellor to know whether , and to what extent , to pursue the issue .
2 Despite aggressive cost cutting , however , it believes a weak business environment will make it difficult for the company to be profitable this year .
3 However , other mammals are strongly attracted by them which will make it difficult for the perfume manufacturers , who have extracted and patented human copulins , to market them successfully .
4 Does not that make it difficult for the United Nations to carry out a peacekeeping role ?
5 This in turn may make it difficult for the manager to evoke commitment and enthusiasm .
6 But it is easy to accept Brown and Harris 's cautious suggestion that this same factor may make it difficult for the woman to get treatment .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 ‘ The fact that the Department had , in effect , advised the partnership that it did not need a licence made it difficult for the Department to point a finger of blame at them , ’ says Sir Anthony .
10 The large number of forms in circulation made it difficult for the authorities to keep track of them .
11 The marshes around Altdorf made it difficult for the Orcs to group for the assault , and several mobs of Orcs disappeared forever when they strayed into the marshes .
12 We were playing The Nortons , a side collated from the villages of Great and Little Norton , two hamlets whose relative size made it difficult for the outside observer to decide which was which .
13 erm failed to pay up it erm , there were all sorts of circumstances which erm made it difficult for the student or difficult for the student or there were certain students of course who just erm tried to avoid paying altogether
14 Scotland opened promisingly but Benoit Bellot 's downwind , downfield punting made it difficult for the home side to sustain pressure .
15 This will give you a head start and make it difficult for the driver to follow .
16 This is not only expressed through direct welfare , housing and educational provision to families which helps to ensure an adequate supply of suitable labour , but also in the reproduction of wider ideologies of popular consent which make it difficult for the rule to see the possibility of any other form of economic and political organization .
17 A third suggestion is that the black and white stripes dazzle the lion when it gets very close to its prey and make it difficult for the killer to concentrate on its fast-moving victim .
18 If we 'll only buy highly coloured food , we make it difficult for the industry to eliminate the additives which provide them .
19 Their manager , Alex MacDonald , an old Ranger himself , is clear about what his side can and can not do : ‘ We work hard and harass and make it difficult for the opposition . ’
20 Some prey species such as the oryx ( opposite , top ) , rely on simple , powerful galloping to escape their pursuers , but others , such as the impala ( below ) , employ a more confusing , zigzag escape route , with sudden directional changes making it difficult for the pursuing attacker to strike .
21 If the teeth are allowed to become sharp , the cheek then becomes bruised and cut , causing pain thus making it difficult for the horse to chew properly .
22 The continued flood of repossessed properties on to the market is depressing prices , which in turn is making it difficult for the building societies and other lenders to take the normal escape route for those who are unable to keep up their payments — the sale of the house .
23 Also , natural fibre such as bran products tend to bind to calcium , making it difficult for the body to use the calcium , making supplements more necessary than ever .
24 And it was this same movement that was now making it difficult for the distant beetles to get back to the professor .
25 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 .
26 The extreme detachment with which Onetti views his characters makes it difficult for the reader to become involved in their fate .
27 All this makes it difficult for the Tories to mount a convincing assault on Labour 's drastic plans for Politically Correct social engineering .
28 This limits the activities of the educational institutions in the region and makes it difficult for the administrative centres to do their job , which includes developing technical training projects and teacher training .
29 Moreover , the complex nature of many frauds makes it difficult for the police to prepare a sound case .
30 Their presence makes it difficult for the roof void to be used in the same way as traditional roofs , and there is often a temptation to remove some of them to gain extra space .
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