Example sentences of "it a difficult " in BNC.

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1 In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership .
2 The discovery that he will have to master house-training as well as overcome serious temperament problems makes it a difficult task .
3 It could create dependence on unreliable imports ( as the world market for low sulphur coal is extremely susceptible to sharp increases in demand and expensive because of its popularity in the USA ) , adversely affect the balance of payments , be vulnerable to changes in the value of the pound , increase unemployment costs from the mining industry , and lead to the geological abandonment of UK mines , thus making it a difficult policy to reverse .
4 Most people would consider it a difficult moment .
5 We all agreed that , none of us having been there , Lapland had an aura of romantic mystery about it , but was n't it a difficult and expensive place to get to ?
6 I always find it a difficult binocular object ; I can just see it with × 20 , but I am not confident that I can identify it with a lower magnification .
7 According to Mr Thompson , offering a correctly listed work at auction in India will establish a firm provenance for it , making it a difficult subject for subsequent smuggling and re-sale on the European market .
8 Mercury is a small planet , which combined with its small angular separation from the Sun makes it a difficult planet to observe .
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