Example sentences of "[pron] difficult [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | we have our ups and downs getting money … its difficult to plan for the future like motor racing when you do n't know how much money is coming in |
| 2 | Law consulted Lansdowne on all matters of importance , kept him informed of the progress of negotiations over Ulster , but found him difficult to convince of the merits of compromise . |
| 3 | The van was crowded with men in damp overcoats , and their weight made it difficult to control over the hard bumpy ice . |
| 4 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 5 | Carers often find it difficult to cope with the problem of feeding the patient . |
| 6 | Many of the townsfolk could not understand them and Ranulf , particularly , found it difficult to cope with the broad flow of Scottish his questions provoked . |
| 7 | It is when morale is very low that we find it difficult to cope with the problems and difficulties of life , and when counselling can become vitally important . |
| 8 | It was not an ideal situation , Hari found it difficult to cope with the hard exacting work of a shoemaker and the demands of her short tempered mother . |
| 9 | The leaders of the new organisations also found it difficult to cope with the speed of growth of their organisations . |
| 10 | Home helps said they were finding it difficult to cope with the extra responsibility . |
| 11 | ‘ Simon 's childhood had left him with a feeling of inadequacy and a strong envious streak , which meant he found it difficult to live with the idea of an associate being better than him . |
| 12 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 13 | Although the mechanisms behind this geographical variance are unclear , what is not in dispute is that spatial polarization in voting behaviour has increased steadily , especially during the three general elections of 1979 , 1983 and 1987 , making it difficult to disagree with the conclusion that the ‘ nationalization ’ of British politics has now been replaced by an emerging local differentiation . |
| 14 | Some of the groups found that the sound quality was so poor as to make it difficult to listen to the recordings . |
| 15 | Tony Gordon 's Kiwis , who will now find it difficult to go through the remainder of their tour undefeated , are not as tight and efficient a force as Graham Lowe 's team of four years ago , but with a virtual Test side out , should have been far too strong for Murphy 's collection of reserves . |
| 16 | The familiar fraction " ½ " " is a much more common answer for lower attainers than 0.5 , and in the section on number it was evident that many pupils find it difficult to go from the fraction to the decimal even in this the most familiar case . |
| 17 | It will be evident that the Pearce-Hall theory finds it difficult to deal with the effects of contextual factors . |
| 18 | It has even been held that refusing to hand over the registration book of the plaintiff 's car amounts to conversion of the car since the absence of the book makes it difficult to deal with the car . |
| 19 | What was no doubt intended to be a moment of triumph fell absolutely flat , particularly as the late editor of the Evening Standard — Charles Wintour — was roused to indignation sufficiently vigorous to make it difficult to continue with the dinner . |
| 20 | Students often find it difficult to move from the approach and conceptual basis of one subject to the other . |
| 21 | We pack and move on , the dogs finding it difficult to move in the fresh snow . |
| 22 | In the drama departments there was a general welcome for the move away from written papers , which had been seen by many drama specialists as a cause of confusion between drama and English literature , with students often finding it difficult to respond to the change in emphasis towards a set text that this involved . |
| 23 | Many transracial adopters find it difficult to refer to the child as black , and moreover they feel , as we have seen , that telling the child about his or her ethnic origin is potentially dangerous ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 130 ) . |
| 24 | This certainly makes it difficult to account for the development of style within a small , group of six mosaics such as we have here . |
| 25 | Kirov found it difficult to enthuse over the photograph , mainly because of the subject matter . |
| 26 | The airlines of today would find it difficult to compete with the luxury of meal service on Luft Hansa in 1928 . |
| 27 | Erecting the fence in this way does have the practical benefit of making it difficult to climb into the property — the rails which give useful footholds , being on the inside . |
| 28 | It was odd ; I found it difficult to focus on the time that had passed since he 'd been kidnapped ; sometimes it seemed like moments , at others like years . |
| 29 | Still , having slipped into a B-film cop part , he found it difficult to slough off the role . |
| 30 | The fact that this coincided with Britain 's exit from the ERM makes it difficult to distinguish between the favourable judgement taken of the merger ( on the day of the announcement and subsequently ) and the general advance of the stock market . |