Example sentences of "have [adj] difficulty " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( b ) Assuming the mortgage debt In the past practitioners have had considerable difficulty where the transferee wife took over property subject to a mortgage liability . |
| 32 | Since downloading the file I 've had severe difficulty tearing myself away from this game , such is the enjoyment and frustration I 've had from it . |
| 33 | Many people suggest using corrugated card for pressing and indeed , most commercially made presses are supplied with corrugated card , but I have always had enormous difficulty when using this , finding that it leaves the imprints of stripes on the flowers and leaves . |
| 34 | ‘ The entire Marxist tradition has had enormous difficulty … with the paradoxical phenomenon of bourgeois democracy — a regime in which the exploiting minority rules by means of a system of legally free popular elections ’ ( Therborn , 1978 , p. 248 ) . |
| 35 | Indeed , when Bernard Bergonzi complains of the uniformity of the novels he is obliged as a reviewer to read , he gives as a sample situation a scenario that could well be based on The Languages of Love : ‘ a very sensitive , rather neurotic girl , living in an Earls Court bedsitter and having sexual difficulties ’ ( 1979:24 ) . |
| 36 | ‘ In some parts of the UK cuts in local authority spending and the move to the purchaser-provider split meant that for the first time students coming off social work courses were having real difficulties finding jobs ’ Weinstein said . |
| 37 | Last week the head teachers association of Cambridgeshire wrote to the county council to say that because of critical shortages of books , equipment and facilities and because of oversized classes , it would have serious difficulty providing the national curriculum . |
| 38 | A parent may have similar difficulty gaining access to case conference minutes . |
| 39 | They have accepted the need to be flexible towards tenants who would have real difficulties in taking on a long-term lease , treating those nearing retirement with special consideration . |
| 40 | At a Unesco conference in Geneva in 1974 , an administrator from central Africa told me : " We shall have great difficulties in establishing media centres in our rural schools . " |
| 41 | It is often difficult to predict which patients will be able to develop effective work skills , and some quite seriously disturbed people with persistently odd behaviour can work effectively while others with few overt symptoms of mental disorder may have great difficulties . |
| 42 | Grass is not her favourite surface and there were many who thought she would have great difficulty holding off the challenges of Steffi Graf , Martina Navratilova or Gabriela Sabatini . |
| 43 | Clearly , many teachers would have great difficulty with strict compliance because of their own convictions . |
| 44 | NOTE In many Homes , there are very frail residents who will have great difficulty in taking part in any kind of activity . |
| 45 | It was becoming increasingly clear to the Prussians that they would have great difficulty in making their eastern possessions a financial success : the only way to make the eastern marches profitable was to exploit the poor natural resources to the limit and develop industrial capacity . |
| 46 | Those already behind in the preparation and submission of accounts will have great difficulty during the transition period . |
| 47 | The problem is that the Boards would have great difficulty in assessing the standard of a course retrospectively , particularly if it has had no dealings with it previously . |
| 48 | If females are well spaced out then a male would have great difficulty in monopolising more than one at time . |
| 49 | Hence , I may have great difficulty in answering a relatively simple question like ‘ Why do you put so much energy into your career ? ’ and I would have even more difficulty in deciding how much energy 1 should put into my career and how much into my family . |
| 50 | He did not have great difficulty with Churchill . |
| 51 | The corollary of the theory , of course , is that ads for the cheap , day-to-day , convenience type of product are of so little interest to anybody that they should carry a minimum of information , and that they will even then have great difficulty in achieving any very active response from customers . |
| 52 | Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ? |
| 53 | The civil service would have great difficulty in recruiting and retaining those with the highest abilities . |
| 54 | I felt at the time , that if such a Call sere presented I should have great difficulty , indeed , in declining it , even in the face of much inconvenience and pecuniary sacrifice . |
| 55 | Economic arguments appeared conclusive : Britain had a special position as banker to the sterling area , and would have great difficulty in adjusting its food production and Commonwealth food imports to Common Market structures . |
| 56 | At the moment , the moratorium that the United States has announced on the development of its tactical air-to-surface missile programme means that we would have great difficulty getting a credible system from the United States if we wanted one . |
| 57 | Any number of vehicles trying to pick up the finishers will have great difficulty parking and will probably cause a major obstruction . |
| 58 | On the one hand , individuals ( and working class individuals in particular ) may have great difficulty in identifying and pursuing their collective self-interest . |
| 59 | The plaintiff may have great difficulty in proving causation as in Evans v Triplex Glass . |
| 60 | We would have great difficulty persuading traffic to do it . |