Example sentences of "have considerable difficulty " in BNC.

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1 The first reaction to this is that the speller needs to be looked at more closely : the inversion of letters here , and the production of a completely un-English-looking word , suggests that the child has considerable difficulty with visualisation , and possibly has trouble reading , too .
2 Had the war ended with the collapse of Madrid in November 1936 , the Nationalists would have had considerable difficulty in improvising the governmental and administrative apparatus necessary to sustain a new regime .
3 We have had considerable difficulty in the current year , in meeting the demand upon children 's services , and we have met those difficulties , in no small part , from the use of carry forwards within the year , and before you come to looking at reductions in services on the salmon papers , the children 's service is going to , and in fact is doing a redirection of its funding to ensure that it stays within its base budget in future years .
4 ( b ) Assuming the mortgage debt In the past practitioners have had considerable difficulty where the transferee wife took over property subject to a mortgage liability .
5 But even if you went in as researcher who 's going to interview them , and a , and informal way which might be a more appropriate method , you 'd still have considerable difficulty in that there is , they 'll spin you a yarn and whatnot , you know what they wanted you think rather than what what they should .
6 In addition , the clergy appear to have considerable difficulty in recognizing the transformation which theoretical positions on Christian belief and morality undergo as they are concretized in historical human relationships , doubtless also because of the strong essentialist bias in their perception of socio-ethical issues .
7 The Clinton administration is likely to have considerable difficulty in carrying out a proposed joint ‘ clean car ’ research and development programme with the major US car manufacturers .
8 But I had considerable difficulty in tracking any down .
9 Elizabeth Bott and her colleagues had considerable difficulty finding families to take part in their project : they used forty-two ‘ contact agencies ’ ranging from general practitioners , clergymen , students ( taught by one of the researchers ) , and a branch of the Labour Party to simply ‘ friends and colleagues ’ .
10 I had considerable difficulty in dissuading him from this course and only did so when I was able to convince him that , far from assisting Aitken , it would damage his cause .
11 An image of the Great Chain of Being was at the very heart of him ; he often had considerable difficulty in marshalling the arguments for apostasy .
12 It was an Imperial and he was so proud of it , although he sometimes had considerable difficulty in making it go .
13 Many teachers , whose schools had been early in the reporting cycle , also said that they had considerable difficulty in remembering their review and its outcome or had been so little involved that they felt unable to say much about it .
14 The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia .
15 But it is still the case that such countries have considerable difficulty in servicing their debts and the debt problem continues to be serious .
16 While very young children can differentiate the past from the present , many have considerable difficulty in differentiating between two periods in the past , or giving precision to the concept of chronology .
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