Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | A comment was made that the idiosyncrasies of each library made them difficult to use . |
| 2 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 3 | She dyed some of the rice grains a different colour from the background , these grains were easy to see : she dyed other grains the same colour as the background , which made them difficult to see . |
| 4 | Does this make them difficult to follow ? |
| 5 | This can make them difficult to remove from detectors with individual ‘ drop in ’ battery compartments . |
| 6 | Do choose bottles that have no indentations inside that might make them difficult to clean thoroughly . |
| 7 | They see themselves as special , and their search for challenge , novelty and change , their intolerance of errors in the work of others and their aversion to formal controls make them difficult to manage . |
| 8 | Figure 6.3 Many species of birds give alarm calls when they see a dangerous predator The particular bird giving the alarm call runs the risk of attracting the predator to itself , so the alarm calls have acoustic properties which make them difficult to locate . |
| 9 | Many birds give alarm calls to warn of danger , but it is not certain whether the acoustic properties of the alarm calls make them difficult to locate . |
| 10 | At the same time , the three thousand five hundred tanks and three hundred and ninety thousand Iraqi troops have dug into defensive positions which make them difficult to knock out , even with the sophistication of British and United States ground attack bombers . |
| 11 | But where they address discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , and class among subjects , they seem to find them difficult to deal with on their own terms . |
| 12 | Law consulted Lansdowne on all matters of importance , kept him informed of the progress of negotiations over Ulster , but found him difficult to convince of the merits of compromise . |
| 13 | Any state founded on nationalist principles is going to find it difficult to accommodate more than one nationality . |
| 14 | Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak . |
| 15 | Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak |
| 16 | Countries that have developed a taste for gas-guzzling machinery are certain to find it difficult to turn back to animal power . |
| 17 | Women appear to find it difficult , at times , to control their moods and may be subject to emotional outbursts or lose their tempers more frequently . ’ |
| 18 | Although generally aware that bran , wholemeal bread ( which has less of its fibre stripped away in the milling process than white bread ) and muesli-type mixtures are rich sources of fibre , most people used to find it difficult to know where to locate that healthy high-fibre food . |
| 19 | I liked her ; she 's going to find it difficult enough . ’ |
| 20 | The Conservatives also were to find it difficult to forget that he was not from their side , but a Labour appointee with clear and continuing sympathies for the trade unions . |
| 21 | I questioned the need for such a display of guns and they seemed to find it difficult to justify them . |
| 22 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 23 | She seemed to find it difficult to make friends , and the fact that she hardly ever wandered far from the house only added to her loneliness . |
| 24 | Many teachers begin to find it difficult to contain their drama to occasional one-off sessions in the hall . |
| 25 | The Chinese seem to find it difficult to believe that foreigners have arm- and leg-muscles the same as themselves ! |
| 26 | Once again the whole formula worked perfectly and once again I am going to find it difficult to capture its spirit without being fulsomely personal and long-winded . |
| 27 | However , like the newly decorated glasshouse toad , the mealy bugs , being white , found it difficult to remain unseen . |
| 28 | She explained why Bangladeshi women sometimes found it difficult to look after their children in Britain . |
| 29 | Even the films of Allied Filmmakers , a company formed by Bryan Forbes , Richard Attenborough , Basil Dearden and Michael Relph with backing from Rank , sometimes found it difficult to secure a circuit booking . |
| 30 | He said a number of large economies found it difficult to commit themselves to targets which had not been properly explored and before the International Panel on Climate Change reports scientific evidence next year . |