Example sentences of "make it difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low pay has made it difficult for HMIP to recruit and keep adequately qualified staff . |
| 2 | Clouds and fog have made it difficult , sometimes impossible , to conduct reconnaissance . |
| 3 | Even if they had political or ideological grounds for doing so , the heat and publicity of the contest , the expectations of fellow-tribesmen and of the opposing side , and the subsequent social sanctions , would indeed have made it difficult to cross from one end of the pitch to the other in the middle of the ballot . |
| 4 | I fear the Tory tabloids have made it difficult for those of us anti-Leftists who consider ourselves to be of a more reflective disposition . |
| 5 | The attitude of the church has made it difficult for governments to openly promote birth-control programs , that do anything more than advocate natural methods . |
| 6 | He feels the nomadic lifestyle contributed to a shyness which has made it difficult for him to establish close friendships ever since . |
| 7 | In Danzig and Pomerania , where the substantial Polish minority might have made it difficult to implement such a policy , there was a special dispensation . |
| 8 | Competition amongst producers of commercial PC software has made it difficult for shareware authors to significantly undercut them and still charge a worthwhile amount for their products . |
| 9 | My friends have also made it difficult for me , but the world has n't come to an end . ’ |
| 10 | And the severity of the recession has made it difficult for those companies that have reached the end of the five-year period to find an exit route for their BES investors . |
| 11 | This is a small-scale or unofficial credit union where people group together to help each other with major purchases , though we heard that the current rate of inflation has made it difficult for such groups to attract support . |
| 12 | She had purposely made it difficult and she knew that there were precious few five-year-olds around who would be able to manage it . |
| 13 | Its small size suggests that it was a so-called ‘ satellite ’ pyramid which probably played a part in the ritual entombment of the pharaoh , although the lack of remains found in satellite pyramids have made it difficult to determine their function . |
| 14 | The twelve-hour shift pattern was also an obstacle to change in that it would have made it difficult to recruit new staff for hospital development . |
| 15 | As noted in pp 30–31 , the life of this committee is not easy to chart for a number of reasons , and this has made it difficult to determine precisely what has been achieved and to what extent this is attributable to the project . |
| 16 | Iain 's impassivity must have made it difficult to determine his state of mind . |
| 17 | Subdued housing market turnover since the end of 1988 has also made it difficult for borrowers to clear arrears by trading down , and some may have thought it in their best interests to default once their mortgages exceeded the value of their homes — although the borrower in this situation still remains legally liable for any outstanding debt after the property has been sold . |
| 18 | This has made it difficult for Britain to compete on the world market , and this in turn has eventually led to a worse slump and level of unemployment than would otherwise have been the case had there been no political intervention in the working of the naturally self-regulating free economy of the market . |
| 19 | A combination of government secrecy and collective responsibility ( the notion that an individual member must not disagree publicly with a Cabinet decision ) have made it difficult to discover the extent to which cabinets are genuinely collective decision-making bodies , but a succession of leaks and memoirs , such as Richard Crossman 's ( Crossman , 1975–7 ) , has built up a picture of a committee in which genuine debate tends to be restricted to issues that come to assume major political importance for the government . |
| 20 | Their growth is partly a response to the falling numbers of secondary pupils , which has made it difficult for many smaller schools to make up viable sixth form classes in less-popular A level subjects . |
| 21 | Which had made it difficult for her to stifle her irreverent giggles , particularly with Matey 's severe stare on her . |
| 22 | The Government 's attitude has made it difficult for galleries to acquire the keynote works that they need . |
| 23 | Current budgeting arrangements have made it difficult to plan for systematic upgrading , replacement and improvement . |
| 24 | Trying to pick up the pieces of his life , he says his experiences have made it difficult for him to trust anybody . |
| 25 | The council says the withholding of poll tax payments and industrial action by treasury staff have made it difficult to collect money . |
| 26 | This is particularly dangerous because the weight and drag of the second cable may make it difficult to get the nose down . |
| 27 | The imprecision in definition of core services will make it difficult to ensure that people will have access to appropriate , locally-based services , regardless of where they live . |
| 28 | But the pressures on the growing small firms from the different elements of the ‘ people gap ’ could make it difficult to maintain the recent rate of expansion . |
| 29 | High levels of waste will make it difficult for a river to absorb the quantities involved , reducing its ability to recycle waste , with the result that aquatic life dies and human life is threatened with disease . |
| 30 | Despite their success in recent years , Hounslow have feared that their lack of attractive facilities would make it difficult to build on the present winning team . |