Example sentences of "made it difficult for they [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 It was agreed that the growing diversity of pressures upon schools made it difficult for them to adapt intelligently and consistently .
2 The enemy opened up with machine guns , but the glare of fires made it difficult for them to aim accurately .
3 It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war .
4 It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly .
5 It had seemed an impossible dream at the time ; but to have an impossible dream was a harmless comfort , and their love and respect for Rabbi Moishe made it difficult for them to grudge him their co-operation .
6 Their duties made it difficult for them to meet frequently but they seized every opportunity to be together and their love grew stronger every day .
7 Banks entered this market in a big way in the early 1980s , after the abolition of the ‘ corset ’ scheme , which inhibited the growth of their interest-bearing deposits and made it difficult for them to lend large sums without incurring financial penalties imposed by the Bank of England .
8 But the craftsmen 's talents were crippled by unemployment , while high taxation on the former governing classes made it difficult for them to commission buildings or goods of a quality acceptable to Lutyens and his contemporaries .
9 The use of restraints upon building investment as an economic regulator to prevent excess domestic demand made it difficult for them to achieve their targets .
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