Example sentences of "[pers pn] difficult [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |
| 3 | When petrological thin-sectioning ( see glossary ) is carried out , many separate items of data may be collected from each artefact studied , making it difficult to see those groupings of artefacts that have features in common . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden turned his attention to objects made of this material in building his collection of Chinese art there were those who found it difficult to reconcile such pieces with his choice porcelains , jades and lacquer-work . |
| 6 | When your most familiar role models are those of a compliant woman or the ‘ strong , silent type ’ of man you may find it difficult to reconcile these influences with the aggressive determination you feel as a female , or the sensitivity and intuition you experience as a man . |
| 7 | The increase in mean ozone concentration with latitude and the existence of seasonal cycles in ozone levels make it difficult to detect any trends in global ozone concentration . |
| 8 | They often found it difficult to resist these demands . |
| 9 | The Commission has often brought forward proposals using a dubious legal base , and the Council has found it difficult to halt that practice in the European Court . |
| 10 | Those who spoke ill of him would find it difficult to continue such activity without a jaw to move , he considered , and made a mental note to put one of the Secte Rouge in charge of security . |
| 11 | These limitations affected the size of the sample and also made it difficult to employ such procedures as the multiple judging of rating scales . |
| 12 | The Bank of England acted to keep the cost of overnight money low so as to take pressure off the longer dates , but analysts warned that the authorities would find it difficult to keep this tactic going . |
| 13 | He found it difficult to have any sympathy for Katherine Lundy in this instance ; this situation was entirely of her own creation . |
| 14 | He still found it difficult to accept that Tess , the pure village maiden , was not what she seemed . |
| 15 | But he found it difficult to feel much pity for Yorick . |
| 16 | In particular , traditional descriptive and analytic methods find it difficult to contemplate such phenomena as : ( 1 ) close approximation of phones without merger ; ( 2 ) overlapping allophones ; ( 3 ) flip-flops , and ( 4 ) reversal of merger . |
| 17 | Newcomers to sociology may find it difficult to make much sense of ethnomethodology . |
| 18 | The problem with using small group work with young children is that it 's inevitably rather disparate : they will happily play for long periods , but find it difficult to share each other 's work unless there is a powerful dramatic context , as is provided by whole group work , which gives us the chance to really focus the drama . |
| 19 | That 's not an easy task of the wind makes it difficult to maintain that balance . |
| 20 | I agree that many applications come in the holiday period and that that makes it difficult to maintain that average . |