Example sentences of "difficulty in [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This difficulty in distinguishing the cognitive style of the highly creative from that of the psychotic has also often been noted by others . |
| 2 | The police authority has been facing serious difficulty in meeting the additional costs arising from the disturbances in Tyneside in September , so I am pleased to announce today that the Government will make a special payment towards those costs , at a rate of 95 per cent . |
| 3 | The introduction of a financial quota system inevitably placed unprecedented responsibilities on most branches and student groups to make tangible contributions to support their activities , and those of the District , which led to predictable objections from some branches and to genuine difficulty in meeting the allocated quotas in a few instances . |
| 4 | The difficulty in meeting the relaxed comparable income eligibility criteria and the complexity of preparing the plans has severely limited the number of plans agreed . |
| 5 | There would have been no difficulty in establishing the appropriate standard of care for the medical defendant . |
| 6 | Art involves personal creativity and some people may have difficulty in seeing the disabled artist as anything other than an independent and uncontrollable misfit . |
| 7 | When a discretionary life sentence is passed , for an offence other than murder because of the danger to the public from the convicted person , there is no undue difficulty in ascertaining the determinate sentence which would otherwise be appropriate according to the judges ' tariff . |
| 8 | Is the Secretary of State aware of the serious threat to standards in schools caused by his spending decision in the Prime Minister 's county of Cambridgeshire , where the Cambridge branch of the Secondary Heads Association has said that impending cuts will cause ’ larger classes fewer books , less equipment , reduced sixth form provision and serious difficulty in providing the national curriculum ’ ? |
| 9 | What Emerson demonstrated was that her younger children had difficulty in using the causal connective as a clue to the temporal order of the events described . |
| 10 | The test of difficulty in setting the appropriate standard of care poses problems . |
| 11 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |
| 12 | Notwithstanding the difficulty in determining the exact meaning of the information defined in s.10 , it must be borne in mind that whether information comes within the scope of the section is a question of fact for the jury or the magistrates to decide . |
| 13 | However , even with this distinction , there is some difficulty in capturing the imperatival force of the ‘ should ’ in an ethical system in which intrinsic value is the only basic ethical concept . |
| 14 | Corbridge , like Carlisle , lies just behind Hadrian 's Wall on the Stanegate , and as with Carlisle there is difficulty in disentangling the military structures from the civilian . |
| 15 | However , I found the most frightful difficulty in persuading the various captains of these teams from one flight or the other to let me join in . |
| 16 | Tricon Foodservice Consultants has been brought in to give advice , but the Cassons have had some difficulty in accepting the drastic measures needed to ensure survival . |
| 17 | There is no real difficulty in accepting the functional equivalence of variants such as lt ] and [ ? ] if they can occupy the same position in a set of words ( such as the syllable final position in bat , pit , hot ) without replacement of one by the other altering the semantic form of any item . |
| 18 | Had the war ended with the collapse of Madrid in November 1936 , the Nationalists would have had considerable difficulty in improvising the governmental and administrative apparatus necessary to sustain a new regime . |
| 19 | To put the point graphically , while Marx and his nineteenth-century comrades would have no great difficulty in recognizing the economic and the political spheres today , despite the major changes that have undoubtedly taken place in the last hundred years , in the cultural-ideological sphere the opportunities for hegemonic control on a global scale have changed out of all recognition . |
| 20 | Looking at Philip Swallow now , as he seats himself in a low , upholstered chair facing her , Robyn has difficulty in recognizing the jet-set philanderer of Rupert Sutcliffe 's description . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's no difficulty in recognizing the obvious . |
| 22 | The published statistics are therefore retained for this purpose , but , as one company commented , their use is , however , so infrequent that it has difficulty in locating the relevant data when they are needed ! |
| 23 | The difficulty in defining the critical points to measure owing to degradation of the original landforms . |
| 24 | There are also complaints in Japan , where foreign suppliers have long blamed their difficulty in penetrating the Japanese market on the closed ranks of the keiretsu . |
| 25 | A sharp eyed youngster should have no difficulty in spotting the loose change , that so often litter such areas . |
| 26 | In theory , a limited partnership could be set up on the retirement of a working partner , where the continuing partners experience difficulty in acquiring the outgoing partner 's share by an immediate cash payment . |
| 27 | And Rank interpreted his own difficulty in understanding The Red Shoes as evidence that he had a disaster on his hands . |
| 28 | Nurses frequently have difficulty in conveying the exact meaning of messages to patients and relatives . |
| 29 | Because of the élitism which such an organization of control wields , it is not surprising there is difficulty in incorporating the outside researcher , or in accepting his critical findings . |
| 30 | We should have broken up before but there is every prospect of a late and long hopping in which case we should have difficulty in making the necessary attendances . ’ |