Example sentences of "difficult for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very difficult for a court to say what a reasonable mother would have done in circumstances which were almost hypothetical . |
| 2 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 3 | It was very difficult for a court to say what a reasonable mother would have done in circumstances which are almost hypothetical . |
| 4 | This makes it difficult for a murder to go unrecognised and discourages those planning murders . |
| 5 | Like Harold Larwood long before him , he used his relative shortness ( in fast bowling terms ) to make the ball skid through at great pace , always difficult for a batsman to deal with . |
| 6 | It is always difficult for a Cabinet minister to know just how much to say before a Budget statement . |
| 7 | High levels of waste will make it difficult for a river to absorb the quantities involved , reducing its ability to recycle waste , with the result that aquatic life dies and human life is threatened with disease . |
| 8 | It is difficult for a woman to understand a man 's sensitivity to any slur on his virility . |
| 9 | This aspect of the work is difficult for a case-by-case research strategy to identify firmly . |
| 10 | The striping may make it difficult for a predator to select one animal out from the others in a tightly packed herd and equally difficult to judge distances between itself , its intended prey and the rest of the herd . |
| 11 | It 's very difficult for a vehicle to be permitted to enter the parks : let me know if this is absolutely essential . |
| 12 | Mrs Gawthrop 's first Rottweiler was Adda of Mallion , who held her own at All Breed Shows in the UK ; she was placed , which was difficult for a minority breed at the time , in variety classes . |
| 13 | Consequently , as Needham has pointed out , in so far as Chinese natural philosophy ‘ was committed to thinking of time in separate compartments or boxes , perhaps it was more difficult for a Galileo to arise who should uniformise time into an abstract geometrical co-ordinate , a continuous dimension amenable to mathematical handling ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ But it is difficult for a car ! |
| 15 | It was thought that if the balls of soft paste were boiled , long enough to toughen the outer surface , but not for too long so that the inner remained soft , there would still be plenty of flavour left in the bait to serve its purpose , and sufficient toughness to make it extremely difficult for a smaller fish to take the bait in smaller portions . |
| 16 | Most of the old prisoners were there because they personally had no wish to escape , and although their reasons for not wishing to were usually quite sensible and not always selfish it was difficult for a new prisoner to grasp them . |
| 17 | In the case of dementia sufferers who wandered away from home if they were able to get out , such a ruling was sometimes difficult for a family to accept . |
| 18 | For example , where there are natural monopolies , it might be difficult for a well-intentioned and determined DHA to effect changes : indeed , it might find itself more pre-occupied with trying to contain the natural inclinations of monopolists to raise prices without commensurate improvements in quality . |
| 19 | what is clear , however , is that in the event of litigation it is extremely difficult for a complainant to describe the nature of an odour to the court . |
| 20 | ‘ A man may deposit on his land excrement which is foul smelling and a nuisance , but it may be that the evil effects wear off in twenty-four to forty-eight hours so it is difficult for a local authority to serve an abatement notice and prove that the nuisance was still in existence when service was made , whereas now , once the deposit is made and is indeed a statutory nuisance , then the statutory nuisance has occurred , and if the local authority are satisfied it will occur again they may serve a prohibition notice ’ . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the inclusion of these issues may make it difficult for a dieting lay-reader . |
| 22 | This may be difficult for a parent who , as a child , had never been apologised to when the occasion warranted it , but it would come naturally to one who had . |
| 23 | It is obviously difficult for a parent to help a child through a developmental hurdle which he has not properly encompassed himself , but parents and children can grow up together , or , as we might say , children can bring up their parents . |
| 24 | It was also difficult for a man who was in debt to be truthful ; hence it was said that lying rode on debt 's back . |
| 25 | disturbing the surface of the pond , making it difficult for a bird or cat to spot the fish |
| 26 | Some of the culture-based arguments clearly have political ingredients , but one strictly political argument , or rather political-system argument , is equally applicable to any new political movement ( whether left , right or centrist ) seeking long-term viability — that the British first-past-the-post electoral system has features that make it extremely difficult for a new party to ‘ break through ’ . |
| 27 | A dreadful pregnancy or birth that produces a healthy baby can make it difficult for a mother to allow her baby to cry even for a few minutes . |
| 28 | It is difficult for a European to find the rational basis for this optimism . |
| 29 | Without demonstrable concern for their welfare and the active promotion of an identity of interests it would have been difficult for a party of landed and industrial power to retain authority ( for an historical survey of this see McKenzie and Silver 1968 pp 42–73 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ It is perhaps difficult for a man like you to understand . |