Example sentences of "difficulty in [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had considerable difficulty in dissuading him from this course and only did so when I was able to convince him that , far from assisting Aitken , it would damage his cause . |
| 2 | Imperial Airways had difficulty in extricating themselves from the ensuing row . |
| 3 | I thought at the time that her absent luncheon companion must have been a boorish character , and even the greatest friends of Randolph Churchill would find difficulty in defending him from this charge . |
| 4 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 5 | She found no difficulty in detaching herself from Leif 's advances , so why did she seem pathologically incapable of breaking contact now ? |