Example sentences of "[v-ing] it difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police officers who have taken statements from detainees will also be exempted from being questioned in court unless they agree to do so , making it difficult for detainees to challenge the validity of any confessions made under torture . |
| 2 | The hormone progestogen taken regularly every day at the same time causes changes making it difficult for sperm to enter the womb or for the womb to accept a fertilised egg . |
| 3 | But he was also occupying space behind the defenders , making it difficult for attackers to get in on passes . ’ |
| 4 | A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand . |
| 5 | The guns firing from the direction of the River Orne were making it difficult for me to hear what Taff was now saying . |
| 6 | Mars is in your opposite sign Leo , making it difficult to cope with a special relationship . |
| 7 | At present , crews typically rotate between 999 and routine work , making it difficult to designate crews for higher pay . |
| 8 | At present , crews typically rotate between 999 and routine work , making it difficult to designate crews for higher pay . |
| 9 | At present , crews typically rotate between 999 and routine work making it difficult to designate crews for higher pay . |
| 10 | When petrological thin-sectioning ( see glossary ) is carried out , many separate items of data may be collected from each artefact studied , making it difficult to see those groupings of artefacts that have features in common . |
| 11 | On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out . |
| 12 | The institutions which had previously been set up to aid small farmers had their lending capacity cut considerably , making it difficult for many of the beneficiaries to find sufficient capital . |
| 13 | Her fear was almost choking her , making it difficult to breathe . |
| 14 | With all this it is rather slow to grow and frequently when the culture plate is examined for evidence of gonococcal growth it will be found to be overgrown by other bacteria or yeasts , making it difficult or impossible to identify the gonococcus . |
| 15 | His left Achilles tendon became badly shortened , making it difficult for him to put his foot to the floor , and he had a strong positive supporting reaction in his foot . |
| 16 | This will cause both feet to rest on the windward rail , making it difficult to keep the board level . |
| 17 | Finally , as we have shown earlier , what is defined as criminal varies across time and place , thus making it difficult to argue that in-built differences between the sexes can explain what is a variable phenomena . |
| 18 | Such policies have an impact on new , emergent industrial nations as export markets and revenues are curtailed thus making it difficult for LDCs to service external debts . |
| 19 | Although the mechanisms behind this geographical variance are unclear , what is not in dispute is that spatial polarization in voting behaviour has increased steadily , especially during the three general elections of 1979 , 1983 and 1987 , making it difficult to disagree with the conclusion that the ‘ nationalization ’ of British politics has now been replaced by an emerging local differentiation . |
| 20 | ft was then necessary to review the work carried out so far , which , due to the extensive coding exercise and sheer size of the database , was making it difficult to ‘ see the wood for the trees ’ . |
| 21 | This contact was increasingly in danger of disappearing due to the economic pressures on the company , and , by the same token , budget pressures on the school which were making it difficult to commit teacher time to a non-class contact time activity . |
| 22 | Another suggestion is that the stripes confuse the lion by making it difficult to tell where one zebra ends and another begins . |
| 23 | Some prey species such as the oryx ( opposite , top ) , rely on simple , powerful galloping to escape their pursuers , but others , such as the impala ( below ) , employ a more confusing , zigzag escape route , with sudden directional changes making it difficult for the pursuing attacker to strike . |
| 24 | The SEC 's case , according to BASF finance director Max Dietrich Kley , is that the chemical giant 's figures understate profits , making it difficult for investors to compare them with those of other concerns . |
| 25 | If the teeth are allowed to become sharp , the cheek then becomes bruised and cut , causing pain thus making it difficult for the horse to chew properly . |
| 26 | This is preferable to bathing the whole dog , as constant bathing softens the coat , making it difficult to hand-strip and untypical of the breeds . |
| 27 | disturbing the surface of the pond , making it difficult for a bird or cat to spot the fish |
| 28 | My knees were knocking and my lips quivering , making it difficult to get round the words . |
| 29 | Another common trait is for the model to pitch up as speed increases , making it difficult , if not impossible , to maintain a shallow dive as an entry to an aerobatic manoeuvre . |
| 30 | Our jobs become more demanding , making it difficult to devote the time to train every day and maintain the routine we once had . |