Example sentences of "[vb base] it difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people who use drugs regularly find it difficult to exist in a drug-free world . |
| 2 | When I think about it , he wrote , I find it difficult to remember why I ever embarked on it . |
| 3 | Inexperienced pilots sometimes find it difficult to remember , or to work out quickly , the control movements needed to keep straight . |
| 4 | If you find it difficult to stop drinking altogether , try to cut down as much as possible . |
| 5 | This pattern of performance suggests that these patients find it difficult to assemble a pronunciation , but they can continue to read familiar words because the lexical system , utilizing addressed phonology , is still working effectively . |
| 6 | If you find it difficult to keep a rally going within the confines of the court , chase the ball wherever it goes so that you become accustomed to the habit of pursuing the ball . |
| 7 | British Gas will move a coin , token or credit meter up to a meter from its present position free of charge if you find it difficult to use ( see Page no number stated for information on adaptations for meters and appliances ) . |
| 8 | While some pensioners have sufficient money to take long holidays and enjoy a comfortable retirement , many find it difficult to manage on their weekly income . |
| 9 | Virginia Bottomley , Minister for Health , has announced that some people on low incomes who also find it difficult to visit their local opticians will be able to get help from the NHS to pay for the optician to visit them at home . |
| 10 | ‘ I find it difficult to justify enormous punitive damages being paid to victims on a first-past-the-post system . |
| 11 | So victims feel isolated and ignored and find it difficult to talk about their experiences . |
| 12 | One detects a certain apathy towards the whole business of synodical government , and parishes find it difficult to fill the vacancies allotted to them on the Deanery Synods . |
| 13 | ‘ I find it difficult to get shorts and trousers to fit me . |
| 14 | However , I find it difficult to keep them clean . |
| 15 | In fact the corporate sector is already developing policies to meet potential labour shortages , such as career break and return-to-work schemes for women as well as creche facilities , attractions with which smaller firms find it difficult to compete . |
| 16 | Even if we now find it difficult to accept that these were real or substantial recompenses for the life she had chosen to live we can not reasonably question that she did . |
| 17 | For not only are they bad for women — who find it difficult to be canonized unless they are nuns , queens or martyrs — but equally they form another monolith . |
| 18 | In actual fact my walking stick and gloves are ( I am almost too ashamed to admit ) an elaborate affectation which has by degrees grown into such a habit that I find it difficult , if not impossible , to lay them aside . |
| 19 | I know immediately that I would n't like to go ; I would hate to be a servant in a posh house , but I find it difficult to say this . |
| 20 | SIR — Although like most MPs I accept the principle that a majority of one is enough , I find it difficult to explain to my Southend Conservative supporters who have phoned me why your paper takes the view that there was a 4.43 per cent swing from Conservative to Labour in our constituency . |
| 21 | Both tweed and knitwear find it difficult to compete with production in the lowlands of Scotland , because of the high transport costs from the Western Isles . |
| 22 | Many of us find it difficult to have faith and trust and feel love for someone that we can not see and often feel that we can not hear or get close to . |
| 23 | Let us remember that there is something of God in everyone — even people we find it difficult to like . |
| 24 | During Operation Moss one gets the impression that most males find it difficult to take Professor Jocelyn Peabody seriously ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 25 | His central principle was that ‘ probability is the guide to life ’ , and he applied this principle to those who find it difficult to accept Christianity . |
| 26 | Even the least active holidaymakers find it difficult to resist the lure of a camel ride along the beach . |
| 27 | Even if this were the case , there would still be the social problems experienced by mentally handicapped people who may have spent most of their lives in a hospital and find it difficult to cope with a completely new environment . |
| 28 | ‘ I am so incensed , that I find it difficult to remain objective about it . ’ |
| 29 | I ca n't say the juggling timetables with my partner is always easy , economically we earn the equivalent of one decent wage and find it difficult to save . |
| 30 | It is not surprise that ‘ deep green ’ environmental groups , closer to the first view , find it difficult to communicate their concerns to businesses and governments who feel more at home with the second . |