Example sentences of "[verb] great difficulties " in BNC.

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1 It is important that the Down 's child attains social acceptability in terms of standards of personal hygiene and care , and toilet training , dressing , and general behaviour and habits do not usually present great difficulties ; they may simply take a little longer than normal .
2 When Alexander came to correct his problem , however , he began to experience great difficulties .
3 My Group faced great difficulties when we tried to formulate our recommendations for the teaching of grammar .
4 In Germany we have had great difficulties in opening branches as our representatives are threatened with expulsion and in Denmark one of our organisers was actually expelled by an order of the Secretary of State of that country " .
5 The complicated postures are such as no freestanding statue of the time could show , and the sculptor has had great difficulties .
6 Another group often mentioned is agricultural workers , who are thinly scattered across the land and have had great difficulties in forming a union with political and industrial strength .
7 In the present economic climate many amateur sporting organisations are facing great difficulties . ’
8 Even with peace , the NHS will face great difficulties .
9 Slowly growing internal lesions can produce great difficulties in the lung and the gut , causing shortness of breath and other problems .
10 At a Unesco conference in Geneva in 1974 , an administrator from central Africa told me : " We shall have great difficulties in establishing media centres in our rural schools . "
11 It is often difficult to predict which patients will be able to develop effective work skills , and some quite seriously disturbed people with persistently odd behaviour can work effectively while others with few overt symptoms of mental disorder may have great difficulties .
12 It is clear that very many pupils find great difficulties with the concept of percentage .
13 It has to be said that this presents great difficulties for the taxidermist .
14 This is mainly dealing with the Social Fund which as you know , is erm , go undergoing changes , which means er loss of money and breaking up the fundings to twelve monthly amounts , which is creating great difficulties .
15 The use of conventional solders to attach minute granules of gold presented great difficulties to the goldsmith who had to keep them in position during soldering and avoid flooding the delicate work with solder .
16 To my mind such a variation on a year by year basis by reference to an extraneous factor would be a most anomalous result , and would involve great difficulties in quantifying the cost to the employer in each case .
17 Of course , unemployment brings great difficulties in its train and no one regrets that more than I. That is why in recent months we have put in place the widest range of measures that we have ever had to help unemployed people get back to work .
18 He grew to be a knobby-faced , large-headed , academic-looking man , loving and thoughtful , who overcame great difficulties in his inner life — depressions and other emotional waylayings — to produce a small body of-exquisite and delicate work in print and on radio .
19 The poorest schools , especially in rural areas , have great difficulties in attracting and retaining staff .
20 Others , who are just as willing , have great difficulties in trying to understand them and meet their needs without appearing to intrude , or deprive them of their independence .
21 The experiments will include autistic children who allegedly have great difficulties with pretence .
22 That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it .
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