Example sentences of "makes [pers pn] difficult " in BNC.

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1 It also makes them difficult to control .
2 Most of the many suggested grids bear little relation to each other , and their generalized nature makes them difficult to apply to practical Earth Mysteries .
3 tiles are generally stuck in place with a contact adhesive , which makes them difficult to remove if you want to change to another floorcovering .
4 The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult .
5 The nature of black holes makes them difficult to detect ; all we may ever have is indirect evidence for their existence .
6 Some computer programs are marketed in a form that makes them difficult to copy .
7 Darren Bicknell is impressed with Benjamin : ‘ His slingy action makes him difficult to pick up .
8 Most beginners apply the opposite rudder too harshly and this makes it difficult to hold the bank constant .
9 If you have a disability which makes it difficult to use your slot meter , electricity companies will usually move it free of charge .
10 After all , Mr Lawson has taken pride in the fact that recorded inflation is coming down , which makes it difficult to explain to — say — the Tory party conference why interest rates have to follow the Germans up .
11 ‘ The confiscation of proceeds from drugs crimes makes it difficult for traffickers to salt away their funds , do time and come out to the high life . ’
12 It is this folk model , epitomized by the graffito ‘ SS/RUC ’ , seen as much in working-class Protestant districts as in Catholic ones , which makes it difficult for ‘ ordinary crime ’ to compete for the attention of criminologists in Ireland ( as a recent publication on crime in Ireland complained ; see Tomlinson et al .
13 The industry does n't like dealing with the artist direct because that makes it difficult for music business professionals to be as critical or as observant as they would like .
14 This makes it difficult if the band is split in half with both sides wanting to use the band 's original name .
15 But Wilde also fashioned his transgressive aesthetic into a celebration of anarchic deviance , and this is yet another factor which makes it difficult to identify the sensibility involved .
16 This makes it difficult for caterers to use the most suitable materials possible on walls and floor surfaces for maximum hygiene , ’ he said .
17 My lips are often chapped and sore , which makes it difficult to apply lipstick as it wo n't stay on and looks unpleasant .
18 Another reason cited is more plausible : the contribution the business makes to corporate overheads and the way it is entwined with the company 's other operations makes it difficult to detach from more profitable bits of the company .
19 This makes it difficult for a murder to go unrecognised and discourages those planning murders .
20 The extreme detachment with which Onetti views his characters makes it difficult for the reader to become involved in their fate .
21 All this makes it difficult for the Tories to mount a convincing assault on Labour 's drastic plans for Politically Correct social engineering .
22 Ceremonial plumage makes it difficult to tell whether the hat fits .
23 Local class conflict sometimes makes it difficult for communities to recognise the need for solidarity in dealing with external factors .
24 However , requests for admission are not always supported by adequate information , which makes it difficult to assess whether admission is appropriate ( Bastiaansen , 1976 ; Schelvis , 1977 ; Knorth , 1987 ) .
25 Also the lack of organisation , although contributing to the involvement of members , makes it difficult to expand and develop these movements to any sort of state or national level .
26 The lack of information on this point makes it difficult to judge the accuracy of the printed text .
27 The second type is where the child has a disability which prevents or makes it difficult for him or her to make use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided in schools — within the LEA 's area — for children of his/her age .
28 The traditional role of women in some cultures makes it difficult for them to approach or be approached by the school .
29 To accept the implication of this finding makes it difficult to explain away the dissociation obtained by Hall and Channell ( 1985b ) ( the observation that latent inhibition is context dependent when habituation is not ) , which came from an experiment using the same response measures , stimuli , and procedures as were used by Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) .
30 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 ’ .
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