Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems are formidable and they interlock in ways that make them more difficult to tackle . |
| 2 | ‘ I just find her so difficult to talk to . |
| 3 | Will new sports find it increasingly difficult to find a place on television and will television ever again be able to nurture the growth of new sport ? |
| 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 | Disabled people find it increasingly difficult to gain access to council housing , and homelessness among physically disabled people increased by 92 per cent between 1980 and 1986 compared with 57 per cent among all types of household ( Morris , 1988a , p. 6 ) . |
| 6 | Companies find it increasingly difficult to attract the right people in the £14,000 to £18,000 range unless they offer a car . |
| 7 | I find it equally difficult to conceive of a case where the court , faced with this problem and applying the approach I have indicated above , would authorise an abortion against the wishes of a mentally competent 16-year-old . |
| 8 | Artistic ethnographers also write about many subjects which sociologists find it practically difficult to investigate . |
| 9 | But they find it strangely difficult to do . |
| 10 | This is the reason for the high incidence of pre-menstrual tension among women who find it particularly difficult to relax or unwind . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | With × 7 I find it rather difficult to see . |
| 13 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 14 | Even we as practising Christians find it extremely difficult to avoid the acid of materialism . |
| 15 | Frankly , I find it extremely difficult to make judgments about any of the 5,451 AIDS sufferers , let alone the 16,828 |
| 16 | Discussion is only of interest to those participating in it , and many young children find it extremely difficult to articulate their ideas verbally — especially before they 've actually done what you 're talking about . |
| 17 | One of the great difficulties is that many young people find it extremely difficult to admit that they have a problem . |
| 18 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |
| 19 | However , 40 years on I find it extremely difficult to accept a charge of £23.50 plus for a medal to commemorate your service to your country . |
| 20 | In some cases this is apparently not as arduous a task as it may seem , simply because dischargers find it extremely difficult to portray themselves as ‘ similar ’ to their rivals on more than a very few criteria . |
| 21 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 22 | If you find it too difficult to manage or |
| 23 | For those who find it too difficult to discuss , any member of the Membership Services Sub-Committee would be happy to come along to your class or coffee morning etc. to put the case for you — please contact . |
| 24 | Secondly , not all the sexual impulses can be gratified , and the more educated ( ‘ civilized ’ in Freud 's term ) often find it more difficult to gratify as many impulses as other people do . |
| 25 | All this means that individuals find it more difficult to give meaning to their lives and become isolated units , without a mutual interdependence with objects in their human environment . |
| 26 | In 1972 , 41% of women over 16 were daily cigarette smokers ( a figure that had been fairly constant since the 1950s ) whilst in 1986 that figure was 31% , compared with 52% and 35% for men [ 1 ] : this has given rise to the assumption that women find it more difficult to give up smoking than men . |
| 27 | Other women find it more difficult to broach the subject with a long-term partner as that person is used to having sex in a certain ( possibly unsafe ) way . |
| 28 | would have thought that graduates find it more difficult to impart knowledge to people than anybody else . |
| 29 | Litters today are so much bigger than they used to be that sows inevitably find it more difficult to avoid harming their offspring . |
| 30 | It was believed that under the proposed arrangements brokers would accept deals that they had not ‘ matched ’ through a jobber , with the result that jobbers would probably receive less business and find it more difficult to compete . |