Example sentences of "difficulty [prep] [verb] [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing a bit about Devonians I expressed no particular interest but commented on their rustiness and on the difficulty of getting spares for such old equipment . |
| 2 | This was to do with the difficulty of financing conferences of this type . |
| 3 | The case highlights , therefore , the difficulty of advising employers in such situations . |
| 4 | In addition there is the conceptual difficulty of defining clients for some services such as the police or highways . |
| 5 | Many headhunters frequently speak of the difficulty of extracting people from such strong corporate cultures as Procter & Gamble , Unilever and IBM . |
| 6 | But they illustrated the difficulty of purging language of all causal terminology . |
| 7 | These approaches ( directed primarily at the River plate nations and Mexico ) were thwarted by the difficulties of sustaining commerce over such long distances and by the political complications discussed above . |
| 8 | That , Mr Haskins believes , will depress prices of these products , while liquid milk should be relatively unaffected , given the difficulties of importing milk in this form . |
| 9 | Given the difficulties of keeping tabs on such faraway players , it comes as no surprise to learn that Bilardo has appealed to one of the key figures of his 1986 World Cup team , the 34-year-old Jorge Valdano , to come out of his two-year retirement . |
| 10 | Lewine Mair on the difficulties of keeping dates on this year 's European professional calendar |
| 11 | Some of the difficulties with interpreting results from many experiments as supportive of an inverted-U relationship were discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 12 | The traditional way of undertaking market research is through using questionnaires but there are difficulties in gathering information by this method . |
| 13 | Local authorities , moreover , had encountered difficulties in selecting children for these various benefits . |
| 14 | Some lords were fortunate enough to gather aids on other occasions ; many lords had great difficulty in gathering aids at all . |
| 15 | Currently Alan is having extreme difficulty in getting hold of any dried blood . |
| 16 | This non-binding provision has , as we will see , yielded the least success , and underlines the recurring theme of this chapter , the significantly greater difficulty in achieving progress in those social areas beyond those minimum conditions essential to the completion of the single market . |
| 17 | NOTE In many Homes , there are very frail residents who will have great difficulty in taking part in any kind of activity . |
| 18 | The difficulty in reaching agreement about this , or any greater measure of development , had lain partly in the fact that neither the CNAA nor any of its internal structures or external partners or constituencies was homogeneous , and the evolution of ‘ partnership ’ was therefore through a constant , complex and difficult process of negotiation . |
| 19 | Always an easy-going person , Guy had no difficulty in making friends in any situation . |
| 20 | A solicitor may not accept instructions in a matter in which to his knowledge another solicitor has been retained without the consent of that other solicitor , nor should a solicitor instructed in a particular matter communicate directly with anyone who has retained a solicitor on the other side , though a direct approach may be justified if there has been difficulty in making contact with that solicitor . |
| 21 | Experts said that would limit the effectiveness of the operation because of the difficulty in pinpointing airdrops to those in need from high altitudes . |
| 22 | In the ordinary case of a man earning a regular wage or salary , there is little difficulty in assessing damages under this head . |
| 23 | In Hinduism , practically everything is the manifestation of a god , and even the most seasoned guru has difficulty in keeping track of all of them . |
| 24 | Trouble is , even the Pentagon is having difficulty in extracting information from this Air Force base which is , I believe , somewhere in Georgia . |