Example sentences of "difficult [prep] we [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies .
2 Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies .
3 Knives are now a standard part of the criminal 's equipment and it is very difficult for us to defend ourselves without going beyond the law , but there are ways — as you will see later .
4 Not surprisingly it is difficult for us to decide both how good and how genuinely popular all live variety was , let alone its precise relationship to the new entertainment of the movies .
5 In our economy , where we are so familiar with money , it is difficult for us to envisage any other ways in which goods can be acquired , but in the past all sorts of mechanisms were employed and the same is true in the Third World today .
6 I have a very stable relationship , and also with my child , and I know that it would be very difficult for us to split up , but I do n't see why a bit of paper or a lovely ball gown , or a nice cake , will make it any better for me at all ?
7 It is difficult for us to see what Polybius added to his history after 146 , but where the additions are clear the anxiety and the warning are equally clear .
8 They are , quite clearly , highly organized and know what they are about , though it is difficult for us to reach into their world and see it from their point of view .
9 It is difficult for us to acknowledge that violence and destruction , on both sides , are expressions of ‘ rational ’ behaviour ; that ‘ reason ’ may be at the heart of violence .
10 It would be difficult for us to fund it on our own ’ .
11 Now that 's something that 's difficult for us to do , because the more dangerous , the more erm , the premises should present the greatest life risk , are not necessarily the ones over which we have strict legislative control .
12 So erm nevertheless we have er the spirit of Thomas Carlisle walks abroad amongst us even now so er sometimes this business of going through traumatic experiences , particularly in front of another person , can be very very difficult for us to do .
13 And under the present present planning framework it is difficult for us to do .
14 It is of course very difficult for us to reconcile ourselves to such a perspective .
15 It would be difficult for us to object to Government amendments Nos. 26 and 27 since , as I recall , they arose from amendments that we tabled in Committee .
16 A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it .
17 Policies have their conditions and we try to make them as user friendly as possible but if people do not read conditions it is difficult for us to say we will ignore those conditions . ’
18 However , it has been so dramatic that I think it would be difficult for us to say that it was due to anything but the dietary changes , especially in view of the double-blind trial . ’
19 Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings .
20 I want to discuss this with my superiors , but I think it 's only fair for me to say that it may well be difficult for us to keep you here . ’
21 So we find that there 's an intriguing chemistry going on in space that it would be very difficult for us to reproduce in the laboratory .
22 John rather 's expectations regarding the amounts , they 're very ambitious indeed and I ca n't speak for Salisbury Park but if we 're expected to pay a share of any alterations and so forth erm it would be very difficult for us to meet that commitment .
23 It is useful for those of us who worry that hearing other opinions and listening to other people may weaken our case , or make it difficult for us to concentrate on our own determined agenda .
24 The balance between the two varied according to economic circumstances , and it is very difficult for us to reconstruct the nature of these services in detail over a wide area before the thirteenth century .
25 It is difficult for us to imagine the characteristics of wines described by critics writing a mere generation ago , let alone those of wines described centuries ago .
26 The extent of the poverty I think is very very difficult for us to imagine .
27 It is difficult for us to imagine now , but at the time this was a revolutionary book , not only because it put a new type of archaeological field monument , the deserted medieval village ( DMV ) , firmly on the map , but also because it heralded a new era in the study of rural settlements in this country .
28 Horses also use other forms of communication , but they are more difficult for us to understand .
29 ‘ It 's difficult for us to understand why everybody wants to talk about the Russians all the time , ’ says ballerina Fiona Chadwick .
30 Physics appears to be a complicated subject , because the ideas of physics are difficult for us to understand .
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