Example sentences of "be difficult for [pers pn] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be difficult for him to enforce his writ in the far-flung reaches of the country . |
| 2 | The seller can give his instructions to the person in actual possession of the goods , but it may be difficult for him to discover who that is , if , for example , the goods are on the railways . |
| 3 | And McCall , the driving force in Rangers ' 2–1 European Cup win at Elland Road , said : ‘ Leeds have great character and ability and I hope they go on to do well this season , but it will be difficult for them to pick themselves up from this . |
| 4 | It would n't be difficult for them to make him talk . ’ |
| 5 | Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with . |
| 6 | Out of the places which I have mentioned , it would be difficult for me to choose my favourite destination and my worst destination . |
| 7 | It would be difficult for us to fund it on our own ’ . |
| 8 | I want to discuss this with my superiors , but I think it 's only fair for me to say that it may well be difficult for us to keep you here . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm sure it 's difficult for you to imagine what my life is like out here but one thing is certain and that is that there are very few people I can talk to . |
| 10 | Leo Lloyd was monastically devoted to his job — it is difficult for me to realise it was all done in his spare time — … he persuaded me that acting was infinitely fascinating . |
| 11 | This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down but mainly because I do n't have an intuitive feeling for equations . |
| 12 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 13 | Policies have their conditions and we try to make them as user friendly as possible but if people do not read conditions it is difficult for us to say we will ignore those conditions . ’ |
| 14 | It is difficult for us to see what Polybius added to his history after 146 , but where the additions are clear the anxiety and the warning are equally clear . |
| 15 | The psychologist Abraham Maslow concluded that , if these basic physical and security needs are not satisfied , it is difficult for us to fulfil our higher needs . |
| 16 | It was difficult for me to put myself in the Guérigny frame of mind , to accommodate both the knowledge of a beloved 's death and the sense of her imminent return . |
| 17 | ‘ May I observe that this is a rather strange sort of idleness … ’ and he went on to admit that , although it was difficult for him to defend his present way of life , there was purpose in it , even if that purpose was an obscure one . |
| 18 | The bungled pit stop dropped Hill from second on Prost 's tail to fourth and , although he recovered to grab a brilliant third place behind the Frenchman , it was difficult for him to hide his disappointment . |