Example sentences of "[vb past] it difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , like the newly decorated glasshouse toad , the mealy bugs , being white , found it difficult to remain unseen . |
| 2 | She explained why Bangladeshi women sometimes found it difficult to look after their children in Britain . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . ) |
| 6 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 7 | Opponents of changing the rules on early leavers found it difficult to sustain their case . |
| 8 | Soloway 's comment that , ‘ The birth control groups found it difficult to persuade the middle and upper-class membership of the feminist organizations that access to the contraceptive methods was a genuine problem ’ , seems both ill-founded and unnecessary . |
| 9 | Sheep producers , in particular , found it difficult to escape worries about continuing fixed and variable cost increases and the ending of the sheepmeat variable premium that put a floor in the market . |
| 10 | I found it difficult to get cuttings to root in earlier years , but I discovered that by starting them in water for 10 days , then potting up , I lost very few . |
| 11 | Of course , none of us particularly likes an opponent to change his tack , let alone his apparent nature , and Nonconformists who had listened to Dean Stanley and remembered the latitudinarianism of Thomas Arnold found it difficult to tolerate Lord Halifax and Bishop King . |
| 12 | I found it difficult to associate the storms of either Beethoven or Nietzsche with this douce façade and pleasant park . |
| 13 | Even then , with a full glass of water , she found it difficult to swallow the powdery pieces . |
| 14 | Many found it difficult to give accurate figures as the livestock year dictated two very definite peak work periods . |
| 15 | However , some did make the comment that they found it difficult to get details on the new systems . |
| 16 | As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine . |
| 17 | Many women found it difficult to put an exact figure on the amount of time they spent on the various areas of farm work . |
| 18 | The older farmers particularly found it difficult to concentrate for more than 3 hours . |
| 19 | He found it difficult to accept his own failings . |
| 20 | He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions . |
| 21 | Mould found it difficult to be so quiet . |
| 22 | His hair was a little white in places and he found it difficult talking to people . |
| 23 | Engels always found it difficult to control the wild swings of his enthusiasms . |
| 24 | ‘ Some lead such active lives that we found it difficult to arrange a time for interview , while others are so isolated and lonely that our interviewers felt guilty about terminating the interview and leaving them to themselves . ’ |
| 25 | He was not alone in his scepticism about the size of the pool of ability , the optimism of 1963 , or the soundness of a Conservative Minister with whom the Labour party found it difficult to quarrel . |
| 26 | In spite of this he was sexually very experienced and attractive to women and found it difficult to turn down their advances . |
| 27 | Like Morrissey in 1977 , many in Manchester felt left behind and even fairly close friends found it difficult to gat close to the band . |
| 28 | In his well-known book Feudal Society , the historian Marc Bloch has laid particular emphasis on the fact that in the Middle Ages men found it difficult to appreciate the significance of time because they were so ill-equipped to measure it . |
| 29 | He found it difficult to reconcile the opulence he had just witnessed with the poverty of some of the surrounding districts . |
| 30 | Sandison found it difficult to take him seriously . |