Example sentences of "had some difficulty " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed , but we had some difficulty in deciding what . |
| 2 | In no way had she ever been prepared for the life she was now expected to lead and Charles had some difficulty in understanding her feelings . |
| 3 | Evelyn Goldsmith 's granddaughter at two-and-a-half years had some difficulty with the convention of ‘ frozen action ’ , the frozen moment . |
| 4 | Susan turned white when she saw the bandaged hand , and Breeze had some difficulty in reassuring her . |
| 5 | Emlyn had some difficulty in persuading Rank and the producers , Alexander Korda and Anatole de Grunwald , to take on this new boy . |
| 6 | Nearly all the participants described in these accounts were male and nearly all the studies were undertaken by male sociologists who had some difficulty communicating with young women . |
| 7 | If a Board chose to follow a generous policy , for example of paying outdoor relief to the unemployed , and could persuade local ratepayers to finance it , the central authority had some difficulty in stopping such action unless corrupt use of the money or the raising of excessive loans could be proved . |
| 8 | As a result he did a French translation of The Happy Hypocrite which was published in 1904 by the Mercure de France , illustrated with a caricature of Boulestin by Max ( Boulestin had some difficulty in convincing the Mercure 's editor that Max Beerbohm actually existed and was not an invention of his own ) . |
| 9 | All the sample had some difficulty with decimal numbers . |
| 10 | In fact , the king had some difficulty in extracting grants directly from the clergy . |
| 11 | A Captain Beechey , sent by the newly established Marine Department of the Board of Trade to discuss their grievances and explain the Act had some difficulty in convincing his audience that Shipping Officers were intended to be the seamen 's friends , and that the Register Ticket , far from being a " badge of slavery " , gave them advantages . |
| 12 | From the outset , Joan Templeman had some difficulty growing accustomed to the fact that living with Richard Branson seldom meant actually being alone with him . |
| 13 | I had some difficulty in persuading him that I had not even seen , let alone read , the book , either in manuscript or in print . |
| 14 | Injunctions were sought to prevent this , but the judge had some difficulty in finding that the demonstrators were acting illegally . |
| 15 | ‘ We came somewhat late to Aberdeen , ’ wrote Johnson , ‘ and found the inn so full , that we had some difficulty in obtaining admission , till Mr Boswell made himself known . |
| 16 | I had some difficulty in securing admission to the Embassy , past a kavas in a spectacular scarlet uniform . |
| 17 | She had some difficulty enunciating the name . |
| 18 | Maltote was exhausted and had some difficulty remembering certain minor details , but , at last , a full account was given . |
| 19 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand if I say that I had some difficulty in persuading everybody to come round a table when I was talking only to the parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras ( Mr. Dobson ) had some difficulty about attributing this and therefore did not say that that eminent legislation was passed by a Liberal Government . |
| 21 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 22 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 23 | Garvey had some difficulty in emerging from his ecstasy . |
| 24 | I I must confess Mr I had some difficulty with the wording of P P G there when it says , unacceptable coalescence , er and trying to balance that against the expressed aim that this should be freestanding . |