Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] it [adv] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expect to find it increasingly difficult to do so at short notice because our budgets are under mounting pressure . |
| 2 | I do find it extraordinarily difficult to see how it [ women 's ordination as priests ] is consonant with the time and place that God chose to be incarnate . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've found it increasingly difficult to attract youngsters into the game because of the success of , and publicity for , rugby league here , ’ Des Seabrook , coach of Orrell and Lancashire , said . |
| 4 | Is not it hard that all those measures have been placed on students at a time when they find it particularly difficult to get vacation jobs or part-time jobs in term time and when those who graduate find it increasingly difficult to get jobs to pay off the overdrafts that they have had to incur as students ? |
| 5 | These pay levels have resulted in low morale within the Service and have made it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain staff . |
| 6 | Certainly the growth of ‘ total war ’ in the twentieth century has drawn populations into the war effort in ways that have made it increasingly difficult to maintain the principle of protection of the civilian population . |
| 7 | Its corollary is that precisely because of their prior example , they have made it increasingly difficult to write intelligently on popular culture . |
| 8 | Sadly , it has been all too often the case that it is precisely in this area that individuals and agencies have found it most difficult to co-operate . |
| 9 | Human experimenters have found it surprisingly difficult to put bats off their stride by playing loud artificial ultrasound at them . |
| 10 | For an industry that is one of the biggest single employers in this country though , times have been hard during 1991/92 and businesses country-wide have found it increasingly difficult to continue the level of graduate recruitment . |
| 11 | In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core . |
| 12 | At the same time , however , the parties have found it increasingly difficult to build and sustain popular confidence in their capacity to ‘ solve the country 's problems ’ , as these problems have become more acute and intractable . |
| 13 | Even recent Conservative governments have found it extremely difficult to make real reductions in public spending . |
| 14 | Without private means , as a less-promising drop-out from Edinburgh medicine , he would even after his voyage have found it very difficult to find employment giving leisure for research . |