Example sentences of "[vb past] it difficult [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operational problems were experienced at some of the less well positioned businesses which found it difficult to sustain market share in the current environment . |
| 2 | The qualities of initiative , responsibility and loyalty which they demanded from the soldier were very different from the passive obedience and mechanical discipline typified by the army of Frederick II ( which , significantly , found it difficult to create units of this kind ) . |
| 3 | Anne found it difficult to like Hetty , although she had to admit honestly that it was partly because she was not Sarah . |
| 4 | Julia , who when nervous found it difficult to see things clearly , started the long haul down the lilac carpet . |
| 5 | The two men were about the same age , nearing fifty ; both were of the lean kind with strong features and over-thin lips ; both were taciturn and found it difficult to put ideas into words . |
| 6 | Of course , none of us particularly likes an opponent to change his tack , let alone his apparent nature , and Nonconformists who had listened to Dean Stanley and remembered the latitudinarianism of Thomas Arnold found it difficult to tolerate Lord Halifax and Bishop King . |
| 7 | In calmer moments , too , she understood how it was that Edward , though generous at heart , found it difficult to give way . |
| 8 | I found it difficult to regain control of the beast . |
| 9 | E. J. Urwick , on the other hand , found it difficult to reconcile talk about ‘ the decline of physical energy ’ with ‘ a class of boys bursting with animal energy ’ . |
| 10 | Hungry as she was , Claudia found it difficult to do justice to the meal . |
| 11 | Coleridge found it difficult to accept failure quite so dispassionately . |
| 12 | Likewise , Newton 's ‘ established ’ groups built up a ‘ close set ’ of relationships with public officials in Birmingham ( 1976 , p. 85 ) , while his poorly established groups found it difficult to gain access to decision-makers and thereby had to resort to demonstrations , petitions and so on which only served to make them even more unacceptable . |
| 13 | He found it difficult to get consultants interested in community care because it was only one on a long list of issues . |
| 14 | Her anger and resentment grew as she drove home and for the rest of that evening she found it difficult to get David Markham out of her mind . |
| 15 | However , some did make the comment that they found it difficult to get details on the new systems . |
| 16 | I found it difficult to get cuttings to root in earlier years , but I discovered that by starting them in water for 10 days , then potting up , I lost very few . |
| 17 | However , one still hears all sorts of rumours to the effect that it is possible for others to obtain information , yet one or two of my constituents found it difficult to obtain information about the identity of a car owner involved in an accident . |
| 18 | Sheep producers , in particular , found it difficult to escape worries about continuing fixed and variable cost increases and the ending of the sheepmeat variable premium that put a floor in the market . |
| 19 | During the eighties the holders of debt from those countries which found it difficult to make interest payments found it impossible to take effective remedial action . |
| 20 | Despite the opportunities opened out from the late eighteenth century by an expanding grain trade , a marked increase in the land available , and a steady rise in labour and money dues extracted from the peasantry , the nobility found it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 21 | Gorge and Mary Webster eventually had another twelve children and found it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 22 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |
| 23 | For a while Glass found it difficult to find people to perform his work , so he formed his own ensemble ( which continues performing at a prodigious rate ) . |
| 24 | This made it difficult to draw conclusions . |
| 25 | And this in turn made it difficult to maintain profits in the economy as a whole . |
| 26 | The rainwater washed away the topsoil and made it difficult to replant trees . |