Example sentences of "find it difficult " in BNC.

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1 Any state founded on nationalist principles is going to find it difficult to accommodate more than one nationality .
2 Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak .
3 Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak
4 Countries that have developed a taste for gas-guzzling machinery are certain to find it difficult to turn back to animal power .
5 Women appear to find it difficult , at times , to control their moods and may be subject to emotional outbursts or lose their tempers more frequently . ’
6 Although generally aware that bran , wholemeal bread ( which has less of its fibre stripped away in the milling process than white bread ) and muesli-type mixtures are rich sources of fibre , most people used to find it difficult to know where to locate that healthy high-fibre food .
7 I liked her ; she 's going to find it difficult enough . ’
8 The Conservatives also were to find it difficult to forget that he was not from their side , but a Labour appointee with clear and continuing sympathies for the trade unions .
9 I questioned the need for such a display of guns and they seemed to find it difficult to justify them .
10 As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " .
11 She seemed to find it difficult to make friends , and the fact that she hardly ever wandered far from the house only added to her loneliness .
12 Many teachers begin to find it difficult to contain their drama to occasional one-off sessions in the hall .
13 The Chinese seem to find it difficult to believe that foreigners have arm- and leg-muscles the same as themselves !
14 Once again the whole formula worked perfectly and once again I am going to find it difficult to capture its spirit without being fulsomely personal and long-winded .
15 However , like the newly decorated glasshouse toad , the mealy bugs , being white , found it difficult to remain unseen .
16 She explained why Bangladeshi women sometimes found it difficult to look after their children in Britain .
17 Even the films of Allied Filmmakers , a company formed by Bryan Forbes , Richard Attenborough , Basil Dearden and Michael Relph with backing from Rank , sometimes found it difficult to secure a circuit booking .
18 He said a number of large economies found it difficult to commit themselves to targets which had not been properly explored and before the International Panel on Climate Change reports scientific evidence next year .
19 ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . )
20 In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans .
21 Opponents of changing the rules on early leavers found it difficult to sustain their case .
22 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 .
23 Sheep producers , in particular , found it difficult to escape worries about continuing fixed and variable cost increases and the ending of the sheepmeat variable premium that put a floor in the market .
24 I found it difficult to get cuttings to root in earlier years , but I discovered that by starting them in water for 10 days , then potting up , I lost very few .
25 Of course , none of us particularly likes an opponent to change his tack , let alone his apparent nature , and Nonconformists who had listened to Dean Stanley and remembered the latitudinarianism of Thomas Arnold found it difficult to tolerate Lord Halifax and Bishop King .
26 I found it difficult to associate the storms of either Beethoven or Nietzsche with this douce façade and pleasant park .
27 Even then , with a full glass of water , she found it difficult to swallow the powdery pieces .
28 Many found it difficult to give accurate figures as the livestock year dictated two very definite peak work periods .
29 However , some did make the comment that they found it difficult to get details on the new systems .
30 As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine .
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