Example sentences of "to make it difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he thinks he 's the centre of the world and he was going to make it difficult for Angie to do what she wanted if it would affect his career . |
| 2 | When Beattie tried to hold evangelistic meetings in Hillsborough , he found the Church of Ireland aristocracy who controlled the parish council using planning laws to make it difficult for him to get a site . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's stopped snowing , ’ Paula remarked , ‘ but this fog is going to make it difficult for you . ’ |
| 4 | Instead irony is used to make it difficult to gauge the speaker 's relationship to a particular character or text . |
| 5 | The difference of approach illustrated here between the apparently hard-working development from carefully formulated theory towards new ideas to be tested where there are gaps in the subject on the one hand and this last-mentioned almost accidental following-up of ideas that just seem to occur out of the blue , would , on the face of things , seem to make it difficult to use two such disparate methods of enquiry in one discipline . |
| 6 | He turned up for a remand hearing at Redbridge court covered in baby oil to make it difficult for warders to grab hold of him . |
| 7 | The effect was to make it difficult for children to contribute to their own support , let alone the support of other people , thus removing the reciprocal nature of support between the young and their parents ' generation , and establishing childhood and youth as a period of one-way dependence of the young on their parents ( Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Anderson , 1980 ; Gittins , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | As we will see in Chapter 12 , the courts have also gone to great lengths to make it difficult to bring tort actions against regulatory bodies . |
| 9 | So it was designed to be attractive to look at , but with curves , ovals and an absence of straight lines to make it difficult to swim in . |
| 10 | In the 1980s we are still sufficiently close to the Occupation to make it difficult to assess some of the longer term significances of its reforms . |
| 11 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 12 | This is likely to make it difficult for them to check the reasonableness of their answers and to question their estimation of measurements . |
| 13 | In fact , benefits are so low as to make it difficult for a woman and her children to live on them , which puts pressure on her to find another male supporter . |
| 14 | Some of the groups found that the sound quality was so poor as to make it difficult to listen to the recordings . |
| 15 | Equally importantly , these code provisions are designed to make it difficult for a detained person to make unfounded allegations against the police which might otherwise appear credible . |
| 16 | What was no doubt intended to be a moment of triumph fell absolutely flat , particularly as the late editor of the Evening Standard — Charles Wintour — was roused to indignation sufficiently vigorous to make it difficult to continue with the dinner . |
| 17 | Thus Deacon has shown how ‘ the genuinely seeking work test ’ was manipulated in the 1920s to make it difficult for unemployed people to establish their claim to benefit . |
| 18 | She was grateful for the air-conditioning , because she was quite well aware that her unruly emotions were going to make it difficult for her to sleep . |
| 19 | The recall instructions were specifically designed to make it difficult for subjects to use previous knowledge in the task and attempts were made to prevent them from mentally retracing the route , a strategy which several of them would otherwise have adopted . |
| 20 | Is n't this going to make it difficult now , I mean with jobs the way they are , does this mean tat people can come in from erm E C countries and er there is no reason why they should n't be given a job erm against somebody who lives in this country ? |
| 21 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
| 22 | ( 3 ) When looking at clauses which require compliance with time limits ( eg a time limit for notifying a warranty claim after a defect is discovered in goods supplied under the contract ) the question to ask is whether the time limit has been imposed from a genuine need to protect the other party 's position , or whether it is there to make it difficult , or practically impossible , for the other party to exercise its rights under the clause . |
| 23 | First , is the procedure that the buyer has to go through to claim the remedy a proper one from an administrative point of view , or is it designed to make it difficult or impossible in practice for the buyer to invoke the clause ? |
| 24 | His naturally long strides , she suspected , he was deliberately making even longer in order to make it difficult for her to catch up ! |
| 25 | You 're assuming I was trying to make it difficult ! ’ |