Example sentences of "was difficult for them " in BNC.

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1 In October 1962 the choir felt it was difficult for them to give a strong lead to the congregational singing because of where the choir was placed and it was recommended that the Trustees should take expert advice on the rearranging of the pulpit area of the church .
2 The citizens of Rotherham were , at last , being confronted with the topic in their own town , in a way that was difficult for them to ignore .
3 Thereafter , it was difficult for them to change .
4 It was difficult for them to appreciate that [ h ] -loss could ever have been anything else but a stigmatized form : in so far as they knew of evidence for it in earlier centuries , they tended to dismiss it , seemingly in the belief that ‘ vulgar ’ and ‘ careless ’ usage is not implicated in linguistic change .
5 was difficult for them to understand because
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