Example sentences of "[modal v] have [adj] difficulty " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt at the time , that if such a Call sere presented I should have great difficulty , indeed , in declining it , even in the face of much inconvenience and pecuniary sacrifice . |
| 2 | And they 'll have great difficulty telling your voice and mine apart wo n't they ? |
| 3 | After surgery , you could be in hospital for a considerable time — and if you were missing overtime pay or sales bonuses because you were unable to work , you could have financial difficulties . |
| 4 | So if the panel were minded to recommend an exceptions policy then in the in the light of I eleven we we 'd have great difficulty in recommending other than B one and B two uses . |
| 5 | A parent may have similar difficulty gaining access to case conference minutes . |
| 6 | It is often difficult to predict which patients will be able to develop effective work skills , and some quite seriously disturbed people with persistently odd behaviour can work effectively while others with few overt symptoms of mental disorder may have great difficulties . |
| 7 | Hence , I may have great difficulty in answering a relatively simple question like ‘ Why do you put so much energy into your career ? ’ and I would have even more difficulty in deciding how much energy 1 should put into my career and how much into my family . |
| 8 | Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ? |
| 9 | On the one hand , individuals ( and working class individuals in particular ) may have great difficulty in identifying and pursuing their collective self-interest . |
| 10 | The plaintiff may have great difficulty in proving causation as in Evans v Triplex Glass . |
| 11 | The group discussions reported in Appendix II showed that single women with children ( divorced , separated or widowed ) may have particular difficulty getting low-cost credit , often because they themselves are not working : so they get higher-cost credit instead ( the reasons for this are explored further in chapter 5 ) . |
| 12 | Last week the head teachers association of Cambridgeshire wrote to the county council to say that because of critical shortages of books , equipment and facilities and because of oversized classes , it would have serious difficulty providing the national curriculum . |
| 13 | They have accepted the need to be flexible towards tenants who would have real difficulties in taking on a long-term lease , treating those nearing retirement with special consideration . |
| 14 | Grass is not her favourite surface and there were many who thought she would have great difficulty holding off the challenges of Steffi Graf , Martina Navratilova or Gabriela Sabatini . |
| 15 | Clearly , many teachers would have great difficulty with strict compliance because of their own convictions . |
| 16 | It was becoming increasingly clear to the Prussians that they would have great difficulty in making their eastern possessions a financial success : the only way to make the eastern marches profitable was to exploit the poor natural resources to the limit and develop industrial capacity . |
| 17 | The problem is that the Boards would have great difficulty in assessing the standard of a course retrospectively , particularly if it has had no dealings with it previously . |
| 18 | If females are well spaced out then a male would have great difficulty in monopolising more than one at time . |
| 19 | The civil service would have great difficulty in recruiting and retaining those with the highest abilities . |
| 20 | Economic arguments appeared conclusive : Britain had a special position as banker to the sterling area , and would have great difficulty in adjusting its food production and Commonwealth food imports to Common Market structures . |
| 21 | At the moment , the moratorium that the United States has announced on the development of its tactical air-to-surface missile programme means that we would have great difficulty getting a credible system from the United States if we wanted one . |
| 22 | We would have great difficulty persuading traffic to do it . |
| 23 | Without this grant the Society would have great difficulty in functioning , we depend on this grant to help pay the ever increasing cost of training new teachers which is imperative to the development of the Society . |
| 24 | There are molecules in space that we would have great difficulty making in the laboratory . |
| 25 | Anyone with a slightly cynical bent would have initial difficulty being convinced by the Inspirals ' contentment with their shrunken market — as someone who last saw the Inspirals dwarfed by a wealth of pyrotechnics and gargantuan lighting at Reading , your correspondent can only assert the view that their new scaled-down persona does them more than a few favours . |
| 26 | I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that . |
| 27 | There must be one flag , the Union Jack , but under it equality of races [ i.e. British and Boer ] and languages … but not before a loyal majority is assured ’ ; or again , ‘ if ten years hence there are three men of British race to two of Dutch , the country will be safe and prosperous ; if there are three of Dutch to two of British , we shall have perpetual difficulty ’ . |
| 28 | At a Unesco conference in Geneva in 1974 , an administrator from central Africa told me : " We shall have great difficulties in establishing media centres in our rural schools . " |
| 29 | NOTE In many Homes , there are very frail residents who will have great difficulty in taking part in any kind of activity . |
| 30 | Those already behind in the preparation and submission of accounts will have great difficulty during the transition period . |