Example sentences of "had little difficulty " in BNC.

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1 In the third quarter Bridgend had little difficulty in wiping out an 11-point deficit , Huw Bevan supporting Aled Williams 's break for their second try .
2 Last night Lendl had little difficulty in defeating John McEnroe 6-4 , 6-4 at the conclusion of the round robin phase .
3 By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation .
4 He stood by his convictions and had little difficulty in keeping public confidence .
5 Most critics had little difficulty in associating the faults of the movies with aspects of the American personality .
6 From the start , feminists had little difficulty uncovering the sexist assumptions lying at the roots of most of the established trees of knowledge .
7 Those aware of his unpopularity and unilateralism had little difficulty in comprehending the motives of his assassins .
8 The former had little difficulty in removing Harold Evans from the editorship of The Times despite the elaborate system of guarantees that surrounded the editor 's post .
9 Durkheim had little difficulty in employing this material to demonstrate how beliefs in the mystical powers of animals and other ‘ totemic ’ forces reflected the structure of Aboriginal hordes and their component divisions .
10 Billmaier indicated SunSoft had little difficulty with six of the eight points , non-controversial items such as support of open systems , industry standards interoperability and maintaining ABI compatibility between Solaris and Destiny .
11 Formerly , large enterprises usually had little difficulty in getting their requirements met , whilst small users struggled to get their often very specific needs fulfilled .
12 They had little difficulty in finding abundant evidence for this hypothesis .
13 Sir Patrick Hastings , who was briefed for the defence of Mosley and the others , had little difficulty in demolishing the prosecution case .
14 Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it .
15 At the end of the last Ice Age , some eleven thousand years ago , glaciers stretched across the middle of Europe and African birds had little difficulty in visiting their southern edges where , during the summer , there were rich flushes of insects and other foods but only a small resident population cropping them .
16 In some areas , such as vision , what happens to the food they eat , explanations of day and night , shadows and plant growth , many children had well-established views which they had little difficulty in expressing .
17 He had little difficulty in persuading Mrs Pargeter to run into Mondano with him and cash some traveller 's cheques .
18 They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men .
19 And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets .
20 His voice sounded so matter-of-fact that she had little difficulty in ignoring the more flattering words .
21 She was reasonably attractive , and outgoing , and normally she had little difficulty in establishing cordial relationships in both her working and social life .
22 On 30 November Edmund died , Cnut had little difficulty persuading the English to ignore the claims of his relatives , and the country was re-united under his rule .
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