Example sentences of "[vb -s] it difficult [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult for them to be drawn accurately and the human eye finds it difficult to detect small differences — in our example the slices representing 12% and 13% of the total . |
| 2 | She says he has no concentration now , he finds it difficult to remember simple things . |
| 3 | On the other hand , she finds it difficult to take much interest in financial control , which means that there are sometimes errors in bills , and her unwillingness to ask walk-in guests for a deposit has led to the occasional bad debt . |
| 4 | He was a prisoner , in the jungle , he finds it difficult to get used to everything being normal again . |
| 5 | I am sorry if the Minister finds it difficult to understand that , when I say ’ personally ’ in this respect , I mean that I am expressing my view and the view of my party . |
| 6 | It is also unfortunately still true that the Area Staff Office receives very partial information from the Groups and therefore finds it difficult to play much of a coordinating role in the process . |
| 7 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |
| 8 | On the other hand it makes it difficult to reach genuine agreement on anything at all . |
| 9 | This situation makes it difficult to use basal colonic motility as a basis for comparisons and has led to the development of provocation tests in a controlled environment in an attempt to characterise differences between groups of patients . |
| 10 | The only thing in the way is the fact that all nuclei are electrically charged and ‘ like charges repel ’ : this repulsion makes it difficult to force those nuclei together . |
| 11 | There may be pupils whose eye condition makes it difficult to tolerate bright light and who suffer to some extent from photophobia ( for instance those who are albinos or who have coloboma ) . |
| 12 | However they caution that the relatively small numbers of students in both studies makes it difficult to draw any firm generalisable conclusions . |
| 13 | However the limited numbers of Access students who had completed higher education courses makes it difficult to draw any strong generalisable conclusions . |
| 14 | That conception makes it difficult to address sharp upheavals in the international system that occur in many periods of structural change , the rivalry between different countries that occurs in international trade and finance , or the impact that a country 's internal conditions ( such as the structure of its unions and management ) have on its international position . |
| 15 | That 's not an easy task of the wind makes it difficult to maintain that balance . |
| 16 | I agree that many applications come in the holiday period and that that makes it difficult to maintain that average . |
| 17 | The particular avant-garde perspective of their critique ( as of Greenberg 's ) makes it difficult to avoid first impressions of a conflation in their work of ‘ genuine art ’ with ‘ elite art ’ . |