Example sentences of "it [adv] difficult [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made it so difficult for Spaniards during the 1930s to coexist peacefully ? |
| 2 | Hon. Members might be happy to consider a 48-hour rule , but the farming community , to name but one , would find it extremely difficult at harvest time if they were not allowed to ask their farm workers to work more than 48 hours a week . |
| 3 | She identifies advertising as one of the main forms of these , and feels that the pressure is intensified by the attitudes of friends and family who have been influenced by the media and make it extremely difficult for girls to remain impervious to the images of beauty which surround them : on TV , in films , magazines and newspapers . |
| 4 | The SERC 's antiquated view of physics makes it extremely difficult for physicists working in some of these lively fields to obtain consistent support for their research . |
| 5 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 6 | Yet that weakness makes it extremely difficult for Patten to make any concessions on his plan . |
| 7 | Some species also add entrance passages , long downward pointing tubes that make it extremely difficult for snakes or any other intruders to plunder the nest . |
| 8 | Ms Kielly , 37 , said this would make it extremely difficult for people to get in and out . |
| 9 | Since English people are also stereotyped in Ulster in various ( usually unfavourable ) ways , it was probably equally important that my mixed , but mainly Scottish , accent made it extremely difficult for subjects to fit me into any clear popular category . |
| 10 | It 's to make it unreasonably difficult for unions to collect their subs and undermine collective organization . |
| 11 | In the hunt for both markets and resources , managers invest to create three basic kinds of new advantage that make it more difficult for others to compete . |
| 12 | What makes a task easier for some may make it more difficult for others . |
| 13 | In a shock move , the US General Services Administration has dropped IBM Corp and Microsoft Corp software and hardware from its annual purchasing lists , the Washington Post reports , making it more difficult for government agencies to acquire the products . |
| 14 | He had the Jaguar prize firmly in his sights when opting for a steady clear round in Tuesday night 's Rover Classic , instead of attempting a time which might have made it more difficult for Nick Skelton to win on Burmah Serenade . |
| 15 | Tight labour markets and increased union strength at the end of the sixties may well have made it more difficult for employers to increase work intensity and carry out schemes of reorganization . |
| 16 | In turn , this makes it more difficult for legislation about battery cages to be brought in . |
| 17 | LEGAL curbs designed to make it more difficult for youngsters to smoke come into force today . |
| 18 | But industrial development takes remunerative work out of the home , making it more difficult for wives and mothers to participate . |
| 19 | Well , we feel that there 's it 's obviously quite a lot of points that are , are very good in the report , but we really feel that it 's concentrated very much on the administration of pension schemes , rather than security and I think that whilst if everything that , everyone of his recommendations had been law , I think it would have made it more difficult for Maxwell , but I do n't think it would have made in impossible for Maxwell and I think that what th what we see the problem is , is that in many ways the , the Maxwell problem was brought about by two major , major factors I think . |
| 20 | Increasingly , tea and rubber plantations reduced the number of places where cattle could freely wander , thus making it more difficult for animals to be stolen , hidden and transported . |
| 21 | The measure was designed to make it more difficult for crime syndicates to launder illegally acquired funds . |
| 22 | Constitutional changes also figure in the public choice programme of reform in order to reduce the power of demand groups , thereby making it more difficult for bureaucrats to oversupply public goods . |
| 23 | It is believed the alignment of Novell behind Unix will make it more difficult for Microsoft Corp to run roughshod over the industry . |
| 24 | The present law makes it more difficult for counselling organisations to reach gay men in this age group . |
| 25 | This makes it more difficult for light from the star to escape , and the light appears dimmer and redder to an observer at a distance . |
| 26 | He also continued to affirm that the introduction of divorce would make it more difficult for people to lead ‘ good moral lives ’ . |
| 27 | They can certainly make it more difficult for people to look after themselves . |
| 28 | The general trend appears to have been towards making it more difficult for people to stay on in full-time employment after 65 ( Heron and Chown 1961 ) . |
| 29 | I think it 's made it more difficult for people to be monitored when they 're er taking medication . |
| 30 | If a welfare rights organisation or some other body hands out thousands of forms saying , ’ Sign at the bottom and send to your local social security office , ’ that makes it more difficult for people with problems and claims to have their needs settled . |