Example sentences of "have [adj] difficulty " in BNC.

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1 It has inherent difficulties .
2 I understand , too , that the poor migrainee when under attack has tremendous difficulty in hearing and seeing the normal , outside world .
3 The IBOA has serious difficulties with the proposed changes outlined in view of the fact that it would involve additional costs to our membership .
4 Even if a computer was available which could cope with the load , the system has serious difficulties not least of which is coverage .
5 A clear example of this may be seen in the learner driver who grips the steering wheel so tightly with one hand that he has great difficulty in moving the wheel with the other .
6 Having achieved power in certain situations , the military has great difficulty in maintaining it without the support of other important groups in society .
7 The patient has great difficulty in being coherent .
8 Silvio is a very complex and tormented personality , someone who has great difficulty in coming to terms with the demands of life .
9 The dyslexic person has great difficulty with this .
10 Try giving smaller , more frequent feeds as an initial step — if the baby has slight difficulties with lactose ( see above ) then this may be the answer .
11 The first reaction to this is that the speller needs to be looked at more closely : the inversion of letters here , and the production of a completely un-English-looking word , suggests that the child has considerable difficulty with visualisation , and possibly has trouble reading , too .
12 This would seem particularly likely if the adult is facing or already has financial difficulties .
13 This method of dating has certain difficulties however .
14 He claimed the firm had had previous difficulties in getting paid by the council , with one school not paying for five months .
15 She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries .
16 But for the opening of two artificial pitches at Feltham School , they would have had great difficulty in finding a home venue in recent seasons .
17 Several touring sides are having to play each other because there is no Cornish opposition to play , and we 've had great difficulty in finding referees .
18 If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions .
19 Despite her indulgence of him , she had kept him very much tied to her apron strings and had had great difficulty in relinquishing him to a wife .
20 Zoologists have had great difficulty in classifying colugos .
21 Malcolm Goodson of Cyprio explains ‘ We have had great difficulty in satisfying orders for our new model UVC .
22 Social anthropologists have had great difficulty in giving a clear definition of taboo , because it involves both an element of the sacred , the holy , and of the uncanny , the forbidden , and the dangerous .
23 ‘ When we visited the Ukraine , we had had great difficulty in explaining what a piper looks and sounds like , ’ said Peter .
24 However , it is hard to avoid the impression of a team who have not had the best of luck on and off the field , and who have had great difficulty in coping with Indian spinners , hitches , food and umpires .
25 In Germany we have had great difficulties in opening branches as our representatives are threatened with expulsion and in Denmark one of our organisers was actually expelled by an order of the Secretary of State of that country " .
26 The complicated postures are such as no freestanding statue of the time could show , and the sculptor has had great difficulties .
27 Another group often mentioned is agricultural workers , who are thinly scattered across the land and have had great difficulties in forming a union with political and industrial strength .
28 The defence advocate , Herbert Kerrigan , QC , said his client , a drug addict , had had considerable difficulties with heroin .
29 Had the war ended with the collapse of Madrid in November 1936 , the Nationalists would have had considerable difficulty in improvising the governmental and administrative apparatus necessary to sustain a new regime .
30 We have had considerable difficulty in the current year , in meeting the demand upon children 's services , and we have met those difficulties , in no small part , from the use of carry forwards within the year , and before you come to looking at reductions in services on the salmon papers , the children 's service is going to , and in fact is doing a redirection of its funding to ensure that it stays within its base budget in future years .
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