Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] [adj] difficulty " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recognise that at present this advice is given in confidence but , like Glidewell L.J. , I would foresee little difficulty in the Secretary of State asking to be released from that confidence in pending cases . |
| 2 | Grass is not her favourite surface and there were many who thought she would have great difficulty holding off the challenges of Steffi Graf , Martina Navratilova or Gabriela Sabatini . |
| 3 | Not that she imagined she would have any difficulty finding a job . |
| 4 | For example , in writing the program outlined above , you would have some difficulty in telling the computer what an ‘ opening ’ is . |
| 5 | At the moment , the moratorium that the United States has announced on the development of its tactical air-to-surface missile programme means that we would have great difficulty getting a credible system from the United States if we wanted one . |
| 6 | We would have great difficulty persuading traffic to do it . |
| 7 | There are molecules in space that we would have great difficulty making in the laboratory . |
| 8 | I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that . |
| 9 | We believe that we would , we would find considerable difficulty too , in closing one plus in a single financial year , er , for all sorts of reasons which we can explain to you . |
| 10 | An organization would be most unlikely to dismiss them without good reason , and if it were to they would have little difficulty finding alternative work . |
| 11 | It was becoming increasingly clear to the Prussians that they would have great difficulty in making their eastern possessions a financial success : the only way to make the eastern marches profitable was to exploit the poor natural resources to the limit and develop industrial capacity . |
| 12 | Looking through the booklet the head had given them , I guessed that they would have some difficulty making sense of it . |
| 13 | But Mr Davies , who leaves behind a lower paid £85,000 at the commission , conceded he would have little difficulty in signing up for the business priorities agreed by the CBI 's governing council for the incoming government . |
| 14 | Last week the head teachers association of Cambridgeshire wrote to the county council to say that because of critical shortages of books , equipment and facilities and because of oversized classes , it would have serious difficulty providing the national curriculum . |