Example sentences of "[noun] found [pers pn] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | many children 's solicitors found it difficult to determine the child 's competence to give instructions . |
| 2 | ‘ Some clubs found it difficult , though , and I do n't think you get results which are ‘ correct ’ in those situations . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Likewise , Newton 's ‘ established ’ groups built up a ‘ close set ’ of relationships with public officials in Birmingham ( 1976 , p. 85 ) , while his poorly established groups found it difficult to gain access to decision-makers and thereby had to resort to demonstrations , petitions and so on which only served to make them even more unacceptable . |
| 5 | We have written to all divisional secretaries and offered to supply a suitable person to carry out the demonstration if the division found it difficult to obtain one themselves . |
| 6 | Kirov found it difficult to enthuse over the photograph , mainly because of the subject matter . |
| 7 | Even knowing what he did , Kirov found it difficult to see how the optical illusion had been managed . |
| 8 | And the most interesting thing is that er the consultees found it difficult to assess the extent of any additional cost arising from deregulation so you had a regulation you had a compliance cost assessment and you had employed people , consulted as to whether in fact that statutory instrument was gon na cost any more . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gary 's neat and composed approach was enjoyed by the discerning fans but some Palace supporters found it difficult to accept this refined talent in the hustle and bustle of the Second Division of the mid-1980s . |
| 11 | As the months of his NEA tenure lengthened into years , he sometimes reversed his positions , and even his supporters found it difficult to know just which problematic grants he would end up supporting , and which he would finally reject . |
| 12 | Although it seemed very efficient , one improvement I might suggest would be to mount the covers on spring rollers , because the drivers found it difficult to get to the bikes with the covers pressing on them while they worked . |
| 13 | It was not an ideal situation , Hari found it difficult to cope with the hard exacting work of a shoemaker and the demands of her short tempered mother . |
| 14 | In Denmark , too , Lutheran clergy found it difficult to adapt . |
| 15 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 16 | Critics of policies of that period like Samuel Brittan have suggested that chancellors found it difficult to time their uses of the economic ‘ brake ’ or ‘ accelerator ’ properly , and that the ‘ stop-go ’ pattern that emerged provided a poor economic environment for investment decisions , and thus inhibited British growth . |
| 17 | Regrettably for the Palace , Alan found it difficult to adjust to 2nd and then 3rd Division football , where his undoubted skills were given short shrift by our opponents and , although he always gave of his best , he was equally always a heavily marked man . |
| 18 | Against this background , the evaluators found it difficult to establish a clear picture of exactly what the panel achieved . |
| 19 | Ruth found it difficult to move . |
| 20 | Almost every day there were downpours of rain and it often poured throughout the night , making the ground so slippery that the camels found it difficult to keep on their feet . |
| 21 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 22 | Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration . |
| 23 | Sandison found it difficult to take him seriously . |
| 24 | Michael Banks was not used to acting with a voice murmuring continuously in his ear , and Alex Household found it difficult to time the lines right . |
| 25 | Opponents of changing the rules on early leavers found it difficult to sustain their case . |
| 26 | Coleridge found it difficult to accept failure quite so dispassionately . |
| 27 | However Althusser found it difficult to maintain a Marxist theory of history while avoiding its customary Hegelian form . |
| 28 | Matthew found it difficult to suggest such a thing to a man like Cashman , but , surprisingly , the businessman did not seem to take the question amiss . |
| 29 | However , one still hears all sorts of rumours to the effect that it is possible for others to obtain information , yet one or two of my constituents found it difficult to obtain information about the identity of a car owner involved in an accident . |
| 30 | Despite her normal command over words , June Braithwaite found it difficult to ask in ways that were likely to obtain for her what she wanted . |