Example sentences of "make [adv] difficult [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dennis 's last years as general secretary at the BMC — already personally unhappy for him because of his divorce — were made professionally difficult by the unprincipled , sustained and often personal vendetta conducted against him by the man termed , in this book 's account of the period , as ‘ the BMC 's tame Rottweiler ’ . |
| 2 | The listing of pubs is made more difficult by the fact that they have almost always been altered . |
| 3 | Choosing between Shellac and Splendid Career is made more difficult by the draw , as both colts will run up the stands rails from low numbers . |
| 4 | There is growing unease among members of the Cabinet at the way in which Mr Lawson 's task is being made more difficult by the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | This is made more difficult by the almost complete anonymity of the modern laboratory . |
| 6 | At the same time , we are concerned that police investigations should not be made more difficult by the misuse of certain rights . |
| 7 | For the archaic empires , this entailed attempts to create modern States in the supposed image of those of Western Europe — a task that was made more difficult by the accelerating technical advance of the West Europeans . |
| 8 | The problem is made more difficult by the expense of education and the long pay-off time involved . |
| 9 | This comparison was made more difficult by the existence of two organisations with a number of disparate functions , each using similar information but stored and utilised in different ways . |
| 10 | The preparation of memoirs was made more difficult by the transfer or resignation of men resulting in the loss of their unique knowledge of their mapping areas . |
| 11 | The adjustment of female workers to their jobs is often made more difficult by the peculiar problems of the employed woman who must divide her interests and attention between the working world and her traditional role as a woman . |
| 12 | Your job , however , is made more difficult by the sheer number of the companies from which to choose . |
| 13 | The adjustment was made more difficult by the fact that Vietnam also became part of Cold War tensions : the Chinese Communists , who triumphed in their own country in 1949 , gave aid to Ho Chi Minh , and the following year the Americans extended aid to the French . |
| 14 | The winding path up the steep rocks was made more difficult by the darkness , and Ingrid was glad of the Norwegian 's hand to guide her . |
| 15 | This is made more difficult by the use of a morpheme-based lexicon because many parts of speech may be derived from each morpheme . |
| 16 | The economic transition was made more difficult by the collapse of COMECON , the disintegration of trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries as a consequence of the switch to dollar trading from Jan. 1 , 1991 [ see p. 37979 ] , the impact of the Gulf crisis and increased oil prices . |
| 17 | This is made more difficult by the speed at which new stores are now built . |
| 18 | Interpretation of the studies involving surgery is made very difficult by the problem of anatomical and functional changes caused by the surgical procedure itself . |
| 19 | Any projected reconstruction of this great temple has been made very difficult by the fragmentation and scattering of the remains but in recent years Anton Bammer has published the results of his work on the site in Die Architektur des Jungeren Artemision von Ephesos , Wiesbaden , 1972 . |
| 20 | It was a long trip , not helped by a tyre that cried ‘ enough ! ’ in the middle of nowhere and required changing — a job made more difficult by the fact that Odd-Knut had no spare — but ultimately we arrived at the entrance to Rostadalen . |