Example sentences of "was [v-ing] difficulty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Science and technology still accounted for the largest group of students , though recruitment for technology was encountering difficulties in Britain generally . |
| 2 | The question is whether he is in addition permitted to say that , although he was aware that he was causing difficulties , he was doing so from the best of intentions . |
| 3 | The handling of the bike , for example , was causing difficulties early on but with the help of his teammates , Jeremy was soon back on song . |
| 4 | The office was , however , ideally suited for a gentleman of ancient lineage , who , for whatever reason , had determined to live upon his own estate , and was experiencing difficulty maintaining his social rank and providing for his family . |
| 5 | Rildia Bee had finished giving a piano lesson to a student who was experiencing difficulty with some rather complicated passages in a sonata , and the student had left the house . |
| 6 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 7 | Not a single borough in the capital was having difficulty finding enough flats and houses . |
| 8 | The Headmaster was having difficulty in controlling the mob . |
| 9 | He said that they were professional witnesses from London , explaining that , if a prosecution lawyer was having difficulty in obtaining a conviction , he would handsomely reward a witness who would state under oath that he had seen the crime committed . |
| 10 | She was having difficulty in fixing a chain to Dulcie 's collar . |
| 11 | After her husband 's departure , Margaret had been feeling very miserable and frustrated , was having difficulty concentrating at work and had been avoiding her usual social contacts . |
| 12 | The water was quite deep , and I was having difficulty finding the river-bed with the pole . |
| 13 | Mrs Stych was having difficulty starting her little car , so Mrs Frizzell bobbed her flower-decked head down until her hawklike nose was level with the half-open window . |
| 14 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 15 | When I was n't dozing off in chapel , I was having difficulty in keeping awake in class and , to a greater extent , during prep-time , when I was supposed to be working alone . |
| 16 | In 1922 the manager of the Grand Theater in DeQueen , Arkansas , explained to the readers of the Exhibitors Herald that he was having difficulty in choosing between the easily satisfied ‘ masses ’ , who just wanted shorts , and the much more difficult to please ‘ classes ’ , who wanted programmes especially prepared for them . |
| 17 | She screwed up her eyes as if she was having difficulty seeing her child . |
| 18 | William was having difficulty getting his Panasonic printer to print multi-page Word For Windows documents . |
| 19 | He was now trying to drag one of the wavy-bladed Malayan daggers out of his belt , which was actually a cummerbund ; he was having difficulty , though , because the corrugated edges had got caught in his shirt . |
| 20 | The marquis was having difficulty keeping his hands off Horatia . |
| 21 | He had noticed that I was having difficulty reading my scripts during rehearsal . |
| 22 | One was having difficulty fitting wheels on his police car . |
| 23 | The bomber released its load because it was having difficulty reaching the coast . |
| 24 | Her companions alerted theatre staff when it became clear that she was having difficulty breathing . |
| 25 | Gabriel was having difficulty training this young dog , which , although enthusiastic , still did not understand a sheep dog 's duties . |
| 26 | Ash paced purposefully on , long flinging strides I was having difficulty in keeping up with . |
| 27 | At table that evening , the current Macleod seemed depressed ; he was having difficulty with relatives . |
| 28 | Evans was having difficulty in controlling his voice . |
| 29 | One of her students , Simon , was having difficulty gathering the money to pay his yearly fees , despite working every available holiday . |
| 30 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |