Example sentences of "[adj] make [pers pn] [adv] difficult " in BNC.

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1 In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place .
2 But this made it extremely difficult to follow any strategy of industrial reorganisation ; and in this respect there are interesting parallels between the late 1960s and the late 1940s .
3 In contrast to the other states though , Germany was still a series of small states and principalities , and this made it very difficult to finance and develop the railway network .
4 If young attachés were unpaid this made it more difficult to treat them as cogs in a bureaucratic machine .
5 This makes them incredibly difficult to see , let alone capture on film .
6 Secondly , it is aimed high and to the side of the opponent 's chest , since this makes it more difficult to block .
7 In turn , this makes it more difficult for legislation about battery cages to be brought in .
8 This makes it more difficult for light from the star to escape , and the light appears dimmer and redder to an observer at a distance .
9 There was no surplus solder to spoil the work , but this makes it very difficult to detect .
10 This makes it very difficult for the gent to aim straight when he next visits the loo .
11 This makes it very difficult for us to be angry with other people or to give criticism .
12 This makes it very difficult for predators to multiply their numbers in order to make the most of these periodic gluts .
13 This makes it very difficult for the mains to be contaminated by dirty water ( from a bath , say ) being sucked back up the mains — a phenomenon known as back siphonage .
14 This makes it extremely difficult to transpose ‘ facts ’ from one field , such as biology , to another as complex as psychoanalysis .
15 This makes it quite difficult to get accurate figures about school-age mothers .
16 By the 1960s enthusiasm for such industrial-type resettlement units was waning , and the rising unemployment of the late 1960S and 1970s made it increasingly difficult for people with chronic mental disorder to find work on the open job market .
17 On this er er further to this point about continuity they make the point as well that a system of election by thirds makes it more difficult for the officers of the authority to dominate the councillors .
18 The prevalence of many countervailing centres of influence to government , in the form of local associations will in the long-term make it increasingly difficult for governments to concentrate all power in their hands .
19 That makes it especially difficult for my friends .
20 If a welfare rights organisation or some other body hands out thousands of forms saying , ’ Sign at the bottom and send to your local social security office , ’ that makes it more difficult for people with problems and claims to have their needs settled .
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