Example sentences of "difficulty with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty with all these criticisms is that they never specified exactly what was the ‘ correct ’ style for Nonconformist chapels . |
| 2 | The difficulty with all policy-oriented research is that it begins by defining ‘ problems ’ and then by investigation helps to create that which lt wishes to observe' This type of research helps to create a cognitive revolution in its subjects and thus produces its expected findings . |
| 3 | The difficulty with all these forecasts is that the type of skills required depends on decisions made by managers about the way in which work is organised around the technology , and we thus come back to the problem identified with forecasts made about the impact of new technology on society . |
| 4 | The difficulty with all this is cost as , despite the Lands Tribunal decision , there is nothing to prevent the Capital Taxes Office from raising a new demand based on fresh grounds , as it has done many times during the past 11 years . |
| 5 | The difficulty with all these policy areas is that the effect on economic efficiency is by no means clear cut : there are nearly always benefits and losses that have to be weighed . |
| 6 | I do n't think I 've got any difficulty with that . |
| 7 | We do n't have any difficulty with that , what we find is that the relatives of the people involved have the difficulty . |
| 8 | The difficulty with that type of crime is that , because of the speed with which it is executed , burglar alarms and security systems are relatively ineffective . |
| 9 | I think th the difficulty with that kind of day is that unless you 've decided what the outcome 's going to be before you start , you 're not actually going together are you ? |
| 10 | and I think , I think the difficulty with that is until you know it , as one person said to Alex in front of me ah well , we , we did exactly what you required and you never brought any audience , there was no audience , do you remember that ? |
| 11 | In the end Chairman , we did reach consensus and I find no difficulty with that . |
| 12 | Well I think there 's a difficulty with that on , you then get into a difficulty on housing provision for Greater York districts . |
| 13 | Well the problem about , er two two does include , two does include going around drumming up customers , but the difficulty with that is it seems to me that that you 'll need to drum up the customers in year one and only get the money |
| 14 | Yeah now you see the , the difficulty with that particular one was I was n't con convinced or committed to buying anything because you had not explored my needs |
| 15 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 16 | The difficulty with such ‘ sympatric ’ speciation is that species differ , not at a single gene locus , but by many genes ; it is hard to see how such a difference could build up if sexual crossing was continuously breaking it down again . |
| 17 | A major difficulty with such a test is that familiarity may breed tolerance rather than contempt . |
| 18 | The difficulty with such a conclusion is that one can claim authenticity for anything that goes on in the classroom , including mechanistic pattern practice and the recital of verb paradigms , on the grounds that it may be conducive to learning ( type 3 ) and a feature of the conventional classroom situation ( type 4 ) . |
| 19 | The difficulty with such a proposal , however , is the question of proof . |
| 20 | The difficulty with many agrarian reform programmes has been achieving both social justice and economic growth . |
| 21 | The difficulty with many bibliometric studies is their lack of theoretical rigour , as Gilbert and Woolgar have pointed out . |
| 22 | The difficulty with these two studies , unfortunately , is that we do not know how many patients ended up with a definite myocardial infarction ; an initial electrocardiogram only was used . |
| 23 | The difficulty with these checks is that they can not be adjusted to trap the returning hammers without hindering their upward motion . |
| 24 | I can see we 're having difficulty with these questions no it 's just the answers , okay , question five , now this one 's easy if you 're a surgery , if you have a tracheotomy , where would you show off the scar ? |
| 25 | In a typical situation , a teacher might introduce terms such as paragraph , sentence , topic sentence , phrase , cohesion or reference , if a pupil is having difficulty with some aspects of the textual organisation of his or her writing . |
| 26 | Rildia Bee had finished giving a piano lesson to a student who was experiencing difficulty with some rather complicated passages in a sonata , and the student had left the house . |
| 27 | ( c ) Position conflicts : the position you take in one piece of litigation may be at odds with the position you want to take in a subsequent action ( for example , in advancing the cause of a plaintiff you may adopt a position that puts you in difficulty with some defence clients who are less than impressed with the vigour with which you espouse the plaintiff 's cause ) . |
| 28 | The difficulty with this direct form of government is that it rarely survives the death of the caudillo . |
| 29 | But the difficulty with this discussion is that it lacks a firm point of reference because it can not be taken for granted that there should be two levels of offence , rape and procuring sex by threats . |
| 30 | Although Mungo 's grasp of French was slight , he had no difficulty with this . |