Example sentences of "have [adj] difficulty " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand , too , that the poor migrainee when under attack has tremendous difficulty in hearing and seeing the normal , outside world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Having achieved power in certain situations , the military has great difficulty in maintaining it without the support of other important groups in society . |
| 4 | The patient has great difficulty in being coherent . |
| 5 | Silvio is a very complex and tormented personality , someone who has great difficulty in coming to terms with the demands of life . |
| 6 | The dyslexic person has great difficulty with this . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Zoologists have had great difficulty in classifying colugos . |
| 14 | Malcolm Goodson of Cyprio explains ‘ We have had great difficulty in satisfying orders for our new model UVC . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ When we visited the Ukraine , we had had great difficulty in explaining what a piper looks and sounds like , ’ said Peter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ( 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A parent may have similar difficulty gaining access to case conference minutes . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Clearly , many teachers would have great difficulty with strict compliance because of their own convictions . |
| 28 | NOTE In many Homes , there are very frail residents who will have great difficulty in taking part in any kind of activity . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Those already behind in the preparation and submission of accounts will have great difficulty during the transition period . |