Example sentences of "difficulty in [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 If you experience difficulty in picking out the individual knots , use a magnifying glass .
2 Mr Finchingfield , a slight young man , rather floridly dressed for the country in a laced silk coat of purple hue , searched among the guests and had no difficulty in picking out the lady .
3 The Secretary of State for Energy has allowed British Gas to appeal over the head of the regulator , to his fury , because of the difficulty in sorting out the conflict over whether freeing up the industrial market for British Gas will create higher prices for domestic consumers .
4 The present state of the art raises difficulty in carrying out the exercise described above due to the absence of acceptable methods in some specialities .
5 Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things .
6 Thus , for both pharmacological and psychological reasons many smokers experience difficulty in giving up the habit .
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