Example sentences of "it difficult [to-vb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As administrators can find it difficult to confirm debt to unsecured creditors and delays can be experienced , NCM 's wording is to the policyholder 's advantage . |
| 2 | I really find it difficult to see benefits in L M S. |
| 3 | People seem to prefer that which is informal , spontaneous and unrehearsed , and the lack of stimulus presented by much of the ‘ new look ’ music makes it difficult to persuade musicians to be committed on a regular basis . |
| 4 | E. J. Urwick , on the other hand , found it difficult to reconcile talk about ‘ the decline of physical energy ’ with ‘ a class of boys bursting with animal energy ’ . |
| 5 | Problems identified by the librarian and other members of the library committee included : ( 1 ) inappropriate and inflexible shelving , making it difficult to shelve books in Dewey order ; |
| 6 | Conservatives will be embarrassed and will find it difficult to defend increases in civil service salaries . |
| 7 | She had somehow found it difficult to defend Brian against the accusations of his first wife , who held that he was inept and ineffectual in the field of human relationships . |
| 8 | I found it difficult to regain control of the beast . |
| 9 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 10 | The qualities of initiative , responsibility and loyalty which they demanded from the soldier were very different from the passive obedience and mechanical discipline typified by the army of Frederick II ( which , significantly , found it difficult to create units of this kind ) . |
| 11 | Likewise , changes in law may make it difficult to compare figures through time even within one country , e.g. introduction of the breathalyser in 1967 makes it very hard to relate road accident figures before and after this date . |
| 12 | The Tamil speaker would therefore find it difficult to pronounce words as " lake " and " lamp " . |
| 13 | The two men were about the same age , nearing fifty ; both were of the lean kind with strong features and over-thin lips ; both were taciturn and found it difficult to put ideas into words . |
| 14 | Debt-financed companies may then find it difficult to sell shares to shareholders who will be skeptical of the likelihood of adequate dividends . |
| 15 | ‘ I am so incensed , that I find it difficult to remain objective about it . ’ |
| 16 | Well , we had neither : the sun was already moving down into the west , making it difficult to judge depths by water colour , and the seas were definitely not moderate . |
| 17 | All too often students find it difficult to appreciate links between concepts encountered in different courses , or confidently to recognise formal analogies between different contexts . |
| 18 | If they are members they would find it difficult to refute charges of a breach of the Code of Conduct . |
| 19 | The national contract also makes it difficult to tackle variation in the quality of primary care so that populations with the greatest need too often receive the worst quality care . |
| 20 | Hungry as she was , Claudia found it difficult to do justice to the meal . |
| 21 | Evidence suggests that Regions find it difficult to do business on the rather competitive ‘ put in your bids ’ basis . |
| 22 | Sheep producers , in particular , found it difficult to escape worries about continuing fixed and variable cost increases and the ending of the sheepmeat variable premium that put a floor in the market . |
| 23 | However , the individual concerned would find it difficult to obtain credit in the future — a point often overlooked by those who advocated the system . |
| 24 | However , one still hears all sorts of rumours to the effect that it is possible for others to obtain information , yet one or two of my constituents found it difficult to obtain information about the identity of a car owner involved in an accident . |
| 25 | Because there is little tradition of using research , social workers find it difficult to suggest areas for investigation and most of the running is , therefore , made by central government . |
| 26 | I am not a very social sort of person and I find it difficult to have strangers in my home . ’ |
| 27 | In other words , she may find it difficult to relate sequences of letters to their appropriate pronunciation . |
| 28 | The secretiveness of the Alien Office 's work makes it difficult to provide details of Brooke 's activities : ‘ My duties have ever been of the most confidential nature , ’ he wrote to R. B. Jenkinson , second Earl of Liverpool , in 1809 . |
| 29 | This makes it difficult to place students in ‘ responsible line management roles which make up a valuable part of their training as chartered accountants in business ’ . |
| 30 | At present , crews typically rotate between 999 and routine work , making it difficult to designate crews for higher pay . |