Example sentences of "it difficult [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engels always found it difficult to control the wild swings of his enthusiasms . |
| 2 | ‘ I would be prepared to write a leader on this project , but I would find it difficult to take the opposing point of view to that given in those two leaders . |
| 3 | The first autumn mists made it difficult to see the whole length of the reach . |
| 4 | Assuming that the organisation that is established to give help to prisoners in the Caribbean is based in England or Wales and is unconnected with any other charity , it will find it difficult to persuade the Inland Revenue that its activities are wholly charitable unless it is registered with the Charity Commission . |
| 5 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 6 | I left the team because the low pay would not cover the cost of my share in a mortgage to buy my own flat , and because I found it difficult to reconcile the separate roles of paid worker and friend , when Helen and Elizabeth recognised no such distinction . |
| 7 | When technological spillovers exist , firms find it difficult to appropriate the full benefits of their research activities . |
| 8 | This makes it difficult to define the precise level of services available in individual cases , but it does not prevent an attempt at drawing some general conclusions about the economic role of small towns . |
| 9 | The compassion and sympathy which the victims of these offences naturally cause in all policemen can sometimes be complicated by the anger and emotional hatred felt toward the perpetrator , and the tough type of policeman may find it difficult to distance the one reaction from the other . |
| 10 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 11 | The problem with such ladder filters is that , in general , each section loads the preceding one with a different impedance making it difficult to predict the overall performance of the ladder or to design a ladder to meet a given specification . |
| 12 | These factors interact making it difficult to predict the likely level of difficulty of a specific problem for pupils . |
| 13 | He found it difficult to pick the right words . |
| 14 | Financial markets are finding it difficult to evaluate the future worth of drugs firms . |
| 15 | But France 's own reliance on US financial support made it difficult to resist the Anglo-American policy . |
| 16 | Soviet allies sometimes found themselves opposed to each other ( such as the Ba'athist governments of Syria and Iraq , or Ethiopia and Somalia ) , and others entered into agreements with Soviet adversaries ( both Angola and Mozambique , for instance , signed non-aggression agreements with South Africa in 1984 , and Soviet clients generally found it difficult to resist the powerful influence of Western governments and corporations , or in the case of Ethiopia , relief agencies ) . |
| 17 | Even then , with a full glass of water , she found it difficult to swallow the powdery pieces . |
| 18 | When these are taken into account I have to confess that I find it difficult to understand the additional insights and explanations which the Marxist method offers . |
| 19 | Others find it difficult to accept the annual publication in the UK of some 70,000 new book titles . |
| 20 | Both partners find it difficult to hear the other and appreciate the needs of the other . |
| 21 | Quite apart from the drafting problems that would be encountered , the imposition of such a system might well be resented by sentencers who would probably not find it difficult to subvert the intended aims through a process of ‘ destructive interpretation ’ . |
| 22 | There were several reasons : most immediate , perhaps , was the need for uninterrupted production as war orders from Europe mounted ; secondly , the large size of the corporations and the new degree of union strength made it difficult to recruit the many thousands of strikebreakers for full-scale industrial warfare ; third , government pressures put the corporations on the defensive ; and finally , the entry of the United States into the war created a need for national unity . |
| 23 | Instead it was the ‘ trails ’ , which made it difficult to determine the middle line . |
| 24 | On Nov. 7 a government spokesman in Khartoum complained that splits in the SPLA would make it difficult to resume the Nigerian-mediated Abuja peace negotiations which were due to take place in December [ see pp. 38901 ; 38952 for previous peace talks ] . |
| 25 | ‘ The five survivors in the CR 42 formation were swinging to their right towards and below me , which made it difficult to attack the three planes nearest me , so I chose the outer of the two planes on their left , laid off a deflection and opened fire again . |
| 26 | Because its benefits are non-excludable , anybody providing a public good will find it difficult to get the other beneficiaries to pay for it . |
| 27 | Mary-Claude still found it difficult to match the popular image of America with her experience of it . |
| 28 | In fact I am finding it difficult to establish the exact terms of reference for this study , given that a number of related studies are already underway . |
| 29 | The Clow Committee had recognised there would be practical problems : the quarterly cycle of meter reading would make it difficult to concentrate the higher charge on the crucial months of December , January and February when demand was highest ; in really cold weather or if coal remained in short supply it would have only limited deterrent effect ; and off-peak demand might be adversely affected . |
| 30 | A reduced ampitude of the electrical control activity may result in a marked diminution of the signal to noise ratio making it difficult to extract the true dominant frequency . |