Example sentences of "having [adj] difficulty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although physicists are having some difficulty in deciding what are the fundamental particles of which matter and energy are composed , they seem to agree that there are fundamental particles . |
| 2 | Thiercelin had quite normal feelings where women were concerned , and was having some difficulty in controlling himself . |
| 3 | You might get a real bad one and then you had a rough time but mostly they gave way and very often , if you got a drunk , another policeman saw you were having some difficulty . |
| 4 | But it became increasingly obvious that Britain , the mightiest Imperial power , was having some difficulty in defeating a relatively small number of Boer farmers . |
| 5 | A government survey found that , of those elderly people who were having some difficulty in coping with the tasks of everyday life , about half were helped by members of their family who provided help with shopping , cleaning , the preparation of meals and laundry . |
| 6 | I 'm having some difficulty working out where fences go because they 're obscured by these twenty foot wide er lines . |
| 7 | I 've just this minute got back to the flat and I 'm having some difficulty taking in your news . ’ |
| 8 | Well I , I 'm having some difficulty in keeping my remarks addressed to question A and not drifting into question B because obviously Leeds City Council and perhaps speaking for the rest of West Yorkshire 's concerned about regeneration effects . |
| 9 | I first went , I suppose in in something like the nineteen seventies , and I can remember in those days having some difficulty getting into the country . |
| 10 | So why should she now be having such difficulty , finding all her old arguments so unconvincing ? |
| 11 | An internal survey by the Association of District Councils ( ADC ) , reported in the journal Housing , has found that many local authorities are having great difficulty in exempting from the Right to Buy those properties they consider to be especially suitable for older people . |
| 12 | But , unfortunately , they are having great difficulty in accepting the need to cut overhead costs , which are still far in excess of the target of 18% of turnover and are preventing the Valley Hotel from making a projected net profit by the end of the year . |
| 13 | It is ignored for cast after cast , using a new crust each time of course , but I am not surprised for I am having great difficulty keeping the line from bowing , for the current is slightly faster between the crust and the bank . |
| 14 | Miss Lodsworth , exhorting her guides to greater endeavour in this modern world , was having great difficulty making herself heard over the din of Dancer 's group , who were warming up in the recording studio . |
| 15 | The umpire , who was having great difficulty controlling his dapple-grey pony , hurled the ball in . |
| 16 | In fact she did n't demand anything , apart from a dressing-room on the ground floor because she was having great difficulty with her back at the time , and being in pain , was using a wheelchair most of the time . |
| 17 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 18 | She could see Ana , though , and the face that had drooped at the idea of these visitors was now having great difficulty in not breaking into wide smiles . |
| 19 | He seemed to be having great difficulty in keeping his eyes on the road , but after a corner entailed leaving rather a lot of tyre on the road he apologised then grinned at her . |
| 20 | When he had finished eating , Seb hopped to the back door and opened it slightly , having great difficulty preventing the wind from blowing it open further . |
| 21 | First of all , there are far more accountants around now than there are rats and er we were having great difficulty in getting hold of the rats and I thought , well that sounds logical . |
| 22 | We are focusing most of our efforts er , on dealing with the legalistic situations in a sense , the situations in the courts , the situations of child protection , and we 're having great difficulty breaking into prevention . |
| 23 | Guy Sterne was having great difficulty in controlling his amusement . |
| 24 | And they 're the sort of people who are anyway having great difficulty finding er the extra to support their er own workers with their initial Poll Tax payments anyway . |
| 25 | Currently Alan is having extreme difficulty in getting hold of any dried blood . |
| 26 | In the long term , tenants who have had their benefit reduced or removed at a time of rising rents are having more difficulty in paying . |
| 27 | Er well it 's just I 'm ha it 's not that I 'm having more difficulty with one thing than another , it 's just that I have n't , I did n't get round to doing them . |
| 28 | But as I continued , it became apparent that the course planners were having increasing difficulty in getting each lesson on to one cylinder . |
| 29 | Your collectors are taking progressively longer and having increasing difficulty in getting paid . |
| 30 | Er Stuart , Stuart did phone me some months ago on this issue , to say he was having increasing difficulty getting to the meetings , and he asked me if er I would take it on , and I said , I would if , you know , if he were pushed . |