Example sentences of "made it difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | FACIAL expressions made it difficult to guess who was the man on a working honeymoon here yesterday . |
| 2 | Car headlights made it difficult to see , in the way that an usherette 's torch can temporarily blind . |
| 3 | Here , on demanding mountain roads , the yawning gaps between gear ratios made it difficult to keep the engine spinning above the ideal 4000rpm . |
| 4 | The new literacy arising from compulsory elementary education meant that boys could read about a sport which was organized in a way that made it difficult to watch regularly . |
| 5 | ‘ The fact that the Department had , in effect , advised the partnership that it did not need a licence made it difficult for the Department to point a finger of blame at them , ’ says Sir Anthony . |
| 6 | Mr Powell 's lofty academic style made it difficult for him to approach MPs . |
| 7 | The three Service Chiefs welcomed his preference for evolution rather than continuing and abrasive revolution , but the doubts and suspicions that they had about Mountbatten 's impartiality made it difficult for him to rebuild complete confidence between his staff at the Ministry of Defence and the Service ministries . |
| 8 | A cacophony of staccato bleeps and irritating electronic tunes , endlessly repeated , made it difficult for Marie to catch the sense of what he was saying . |
| 9 | Some unions , most notably the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , were reluctant to invest the General Council with the power to call all unions out on sympathetic strike action and unemployment made it difficult for it to fight against wage reductions . |
| 10 | Vic 's easy manner made it difficult to be annoyed for long . |
| 11 | Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics . |
| 12 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 13 | the off-farm job made it difficult or impossible to get time away ; |
| 14 | Secrecy created by the mixture of large state bureaucracies and the military connection made it difficult for people like Professor Jeffery to get hold of any meaningful figures . |
| 15 | After all those years in Paris he found the bright sunshine and the sparkling translucence of the air disturbed his concentration and made it difficult for him to work . |
| 16 | The keyboard duet had only recently become a viable medium , since the restricted compass of earlier instruments made it difficult to seat two players at one keyboard . |
| 17 | The enemy opened up with machine guns , but the glare of fires made it difficult for them to aim accurately . |
| 18 | It was agreed that the growing diversity of pressures upon schools made it difficult for them to adapt intelligently and consistently . |
| 19 | When he thought one might be possible , he was immensely sentimental , would give up everything for a lover ; yet it was his own exigence that made it difficult for anyone to live up to him , to match his quick apprehension , his wide range of interests , the fervour with which he experienced everything . |
| 20 | Initially , the great masses of floating pumice which had piled up on the sea made it difficult for ships to force their way through the water — rafts three metres thick were reported in places — but eventually parties were able to reach the islands and determine what changes had taken place . |
| 21 | Unemployment in the 1980s forced many older people into early retirement and made it difficult for others to find work . |
| 22 | The high cost of rail transport made it difficult to sell fresh fish to the main English market . |
| 23 | It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly . |
| 24 | Clearance came at 10 am which made it difficult to get to Bangkok before dark , so we carried our own fuel to make sure we could continue from Rangoon . |
| 25 | The ways cards made spending — and overspending — so easy and painless made it difficult for people not to treat the plastic rectangles as money . |
| 26 | Such an unsettled lifestyle made it difficult for Pauline to accumulate much in the way of household possessions , but what it did give her was a very cosmopolitan view . |
| 27 | ‘ There were large double doors which , although they were very nice , made it difficult to position the furniture . |
| 28 | ‘ The five survivors in the CR 42 formation were swinging to their right towards and below me , which made it difficult to attack the three planes nearest me , so I chose the outer of the two planes on their left , laid off a deflection and opened fire again . |
| 29 | His very short statements , and constant insistence that they had done the right thing , made it difficult , if not impossible , to reflect the point of the view of ‘ the other side ’ — the side of the authorities , who then complained that the parents had too much publicity and had the full support of the press and media . |
| 30 | The large number of forms in circulation made it difficult for the authorities to keep track of them . |