Example sentences of "[pron] difficult [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extra liquid exuding from the far edge can be evaporated away quickly by blowing across the specimen ; this avoids wrinkling at the edge of the film , which would make it difficult to flatten the peel for subsequent study . |
| 2 | Why does an unstable demand for money make it difficult to control the supply of money ? |
| 3 | The structure of agriculture makes it difficult to treat the peasant drive for noble land as the harbinger of rural capitalism . |
| 4 | He sat forward tensely in his seat , as if he found it difficult to see the road , and frequently wiped at the windscreen with his handkerchief . |
| 5 | Soloway 's comment that , ‘ The birth control groups found it difficult to persuade the middle and upper-class membership of the feminist organizations that access to the contraceptive methods was a genuine problem ’ , seems both ill-founded and unnecessary . |
| 6 | He found it difficult to reconcile the opulence he had just witnessed with the poverty of some of the surrounding districts . |
| 7 | Being an honest man , he tried to answer honestly , ; and there were times when he clearly found it difficult to reconcile the absolutism of his Church 's dogma with the dictate of his own conscience . |
| 8 | At the end of that time the conscientious manager may well find it difficult to credit the evidence . |
| 9 | Another journalist , the political columnist Alexander Cockburn , once told me that , on balance , he was relived not to have reported on Vietnam because he had observed that those who had , found it difficult to leave the subject alone . |
| 10 | While the majority view among climbers and many of those within the BMC is that the competition , organised by Jerry Peel and Mick Johnstone , was a largely social affair , the BMC will find it difficult to overlook the matter . |
| 11 | ‘ Applying that test , and bearing in mind that there are persons on the fringes of subversion that may make it difficult to draw the line ’ , the Commissioner has been satisfied that the Home Secretaries ' warrants have always been justified . |
| 12 | Because it has to be dealt with at a personal level , some find it difficult to deny the request . |
| 13 | She could not say it was ‘ love ’ because she had always found it difficult to define the border between ‘ love ’ and ‘ friendship ’ . |
| 14 | But the problems incurred by absence for training and generally recognised low staff morale make it difficult to resolve the situation . |
| 15 | Most beginners apply the opposite rudder too harshly and this makes it difficult to hold the bank constant . |
| 16 | If the representative assembly in such a system finds it difficult to hold the administration accountable , this may be because the collective political leadership of the administration finds it convenient to restrict legislative scrutiny and control . |
| 17 | After-sales service : When a firm sells a product that embodies a component purchased externally it may find it difficult to service the product if the component is the cause of the malfunction of the product . |
| 18 | They may want to leave the hassle of day-to-day practice , but even so , retain their skills and find it difficult to close the book on a lifetime in the profession they love . |
| 19 | And with good reason : the signs are that Saatchi is finding it difficult to sell the management consultancy division alone . |
| 20 | It was thought that amending legislation would be introduced ( Practical Lawyer , June 1990 , p11 ) but until it is , in addition to the risk of the conveyance or transfer with respect to the matrimonial home being set aside , the wife may find it difficult to sell the property ( although the Law Society takes the view that there is " very little risk that a Court would exercise its powers to deprive an innocent owner of his title . " |
| 21 | Even the least active holidaymakers find it difficult to resist the lure of a camel ride along the beach . |
| 22 | Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court . |
| 23 | He had found it difficult to resist the temptation to tell Patricia , at least , of his intention to become a Dominican , to go out with a bang instead of a whimper . |
| 24 | Lead piping has two main disadvantages : it is often very small bore , so does not allow a good waterflow , and the amateur will find it difficult to extend the system . |
| 25 | Some people find it difficult to judge the probability of a given outcome , say the success of a specific development job , directly . |
| 26 | Some people find it difficult to judge the probability of a given outcome , say the success of a specific development job , directly . |
| 27 | Even so , it remains an inefficient way of spending funds , because in considering large numbers of new books on different subjects at the same time selectors find it difficult to judge the quality of individual works in relation to the rest of the subject literature , and difficult to take into account — except in the most superficial way — user demand for the books ' subjects . |
| 28 | The lack of information on this point makes it difficult to judge the accuracy of the printed text . |
| 29 | In his well-known book Feudal Society , the historian Marc Bloch has laid particular emphasis on the fact that in the Middle Ages men found it difficult to appreciate the significance of time because they were so ill-equipped to measure it . |
| 30 | The board says that if the animals are still there it may seek a court order to remove them , though church law would make it difficult to evict the Reverend himself . |