Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | He finds it difficult to describe his feelings and says at first ‘ I just walked out . ’ |
| 2 | He nevertheless finds it difficult to define , because there is such a thin dividing line between paternalism and being a good corporate citizen . |
| 3 | It will be evident that the Pearce-Hall theory finds it difficult to deal with the effects of contextual factors . |
| 4 | As soon as the delicate lining has been interfered with , the ovum finds it difficult to make its way to the uterus and may either arrive too late for successful implantation or , which is worse , may implant in the tube itself , giving rise to an ectopic pregnancy ( tubal pregnancy ) . |
| 5 | Antonietta , my new friend , finds it difficult to understand that I enjoy living alone as I do , in a strange city . |
| 6 | The user finds it difficult to narrow down his or her search . |
| 7 | A central organ such as the Training Authority naturally finds it difficult to relax its hold completely but , unless it can ‘ command ’ the situation , it falls to the mercies of local ‘ market ’ economies . |
| 8 | Incontinence may be caused by disease or infection , or because a person finds it difficult to reach or use a toilet . |
| 9 | Encirclement of prey is a common strategy , as in wolf hunting , and the frantic victim finds it difficult to escape the group attack . |
| 10 | Some of the following may be repetitive to some extent , and the reader is asked to excuse this as the writer finds it difficult to avoid repeating some of his thoughts in a subject so fraught with difficulties of explanation , and covering such a wide field . |
| 11 | Once established , even man finds it difficult to change his trend of mind , even if he is aware that it is leading to his downfall . |
| 12 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 13 | The patient is chilly and irritable and finds it difficult to cope . |
| 14 | If I feel that a particular patient is suffering from extreme tension and finds it difficult to relax , then I may suggest that , during the two weeks following the regression session , he simply practises a basic relaxation exercise for a few minutes a day . |
| 15 | Former lorry driver Leonard Marder finds it difficult to walk because of an infected leg caused by varicose veins . |
| 16 | Strachan on song is a familiar sound this season , so much so that Howard Wilkinson confesses he finds it difficult to say something new about his club captain . |
| 17 | On the other hand , she finds it difficult to take much interest in financial control , which means that there are sometimes errors in bills , and her unwillingness to ask walk-in guests for a deposit has led to the occasional bad debt . |
| 18 | He finds it difficult , some times impossible , to make any change of direction in Government without trying to explain that it is not really a change at all and certainly not a change that Lady Thatcher would not personally have approved . |
| 19 | She admits in the final analysis she finds it difficult to make sense of the ‘ gratuitous savagery ’ . |
| 20 | But what her eyes do n't actually see she finds it difficult to imagine . |
| 21 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 22 | These replications of conventional psychology 's misogyny come about because feminism finds it difficult to articulate links between subjectivity and political change . |
| 23 | Feminist psychology also finds it difficult to deal with apparent irrationalities in women 's subjectivity except by pathologizing the women , or seeing them as social victims . |
| 24 | A LITTLE boy is becoming withdrawn because he has so many ear infections he finds it difficult to hear , but his life could be revolutionised by one simple operation . |
| 25 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |
| 26 | It is difficult for them to be drawn accurately and the human eye finds it difficult to detect small differences — in our example the slices representing 12% and 13% of the total . |
| 27 | So flowers keep their nectar behind locks to which only a small group or even a single species has the key , which is of such a specialised design that its owner finds it difficult if not impossible to use on any other flower . |
| 28 | Without social inequality , Parsons finds it difficult to see how members of society could effectively cooperate and work together . |
| 29 | He still finds it difficult to shake off the smock-and-straw image of the unintelligent country yokel and to convince those outside the industry of his skill and versatility . |
| 30 | But one of the great problems with the new media is that , because the brain finds it difficult to do anything but process imagery and sound , it is n't left in a reflective state . |