Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will the snow make your manoeuvre to lose them more difficult ? ’ |
| 2 | Intelligence would make them more difficult to control . |
| 3 | My preference is for the bigger man yet Andy Robinson has given me more difficult games that any other opponent . |
| 4 | The problems are formidable and they interlock in ways that make them more difficult to tackle . |
| 5 | The sensitive souls found her more difficult to stomach . |
| 6 | I felt he maintained a distance and because of that I found him more difficult to approach than Dalglish if there was anything I needed to discuss . |
| 7 | At the opposite end of the scale is the barbel , and while he does not require to be outwitted to the same extent as bream , he does make landing him extremely difficult . |
| 8 | He was going to find it rather difficult to talk for a few days , Kathleen realised . |
| 9 | We expect to find it increasingly difficult to do so at short notice because our budgets are under mounting pressure . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've got part-time players and three or four are going to find it extremely difficult to get time off work . |
| 11 | I 'd have thought he 's going to find it extremely difficult down here to find a job . |
| 12 | I had begun to find it very difficult , at that stage of my life , to memorize new music . |
| 13 | One further point of possible confusion : because venture capital from investors looking for capital gains is not available to co-operatives , they are likely to find it more difficult to raise the larger sums of money needed to start capital-intensive projects . |
| 14 | Kelly found it hilariously difficult to concentrate . |
| 15 | She went vaguely back to occasional journalism and found it increasingly difficult to sleep in the evenings and get up in the mornings . |
| 16 | November had been a damp and drizzly month , bringing shorter days and causing aggravation to those people who found it increasingly difficult to travel in the blackout . |
| 17 | And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights . |
| 18 | Even the most loyal officials found it increasingly difficult to defend serfdom on moral grounds . |
| 19 | The settlement houses were as active as before but showed little sign of expansion , indeed Toynbee Hall found it increasingly difficult to attract residents . |
| 20 | The USA , however , found it increasingly difficult to remain outside the conflict . |
| 21 | At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it . |
| 22 | Leaving school at the age of twelve , Merrick found it increasingly difficult to find employment because of his deformities , and after jobs in a cigar factory and as a haberdashery pedlar he entered the Leicester Union Workhouse in 1879 . |
| 23 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 24 | Later , after Calandrini had attended the synod of Dort and finished his studies in theology under John Prideaux [ q.v. ] at Exeter College , Oxford , graduating BD in 1620 , he found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his Calvinism with De Dominis 's Catholic syncretism . |
| 25 | Despite the promise of great ornithological rewards if he stayed , Gould found it immensely difficult to remain inactive while there was so much work to be done . |
| 26 | Such ventures , however , left out those who were most disturbed or withdrawn and hence who found it most difficult to work ; these were left to idle their time away on the wards , and it was always a struggle to find sufficient financial investment in equipment and raw materials to establish and maintain occupational ventures . |
| 27 | I think we found it quite difficult to provide the range of services at fully competitive prices and the one thing that this merger will do is to make us much more competitive . ’ |
| 28 | It 's very difficult , and I think that people involved in the Gardener Centre have , ever since its inception , found it quite difficult to work how quite how it fits into the overall Brighton scene , and I find it fascinating to look at the nature of facilities which exist in central Brighton and try and work out in one 's own mind how best he facility of the Gardener fits in with that . |
| 29 | And she found it terribly difficult to get dresses ! |
| 30 | He found it so difficult to concentrate . |