Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adv] difficult for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moscovitch argued that if the subject uses a linguistic strategy , that is compares the names of two letters , then it should be more difficult for him to discriminate between acoustically ( e.g. I-Y ) than visually ( e.g. V-U ) similar letter pairs . |
| 2 | I say minimal both because it is rather modest , in contrast say to Jakobson 's , and because it seems to present a demand that it should be very difficult for modern literary studies to deny : that in describing the language of literary texts a degree of rigour is required such as has been notably absent from the work of a great many critics . |
| 3 | She really has this er attitude which I can not understand because erm a a as I think it was Al Reeve said , you know , erm some people ca n't bear children , we ca n't , but we like them but if you have actually borne children , you are in other words a mother , you 've got ta have a attitude , not only to children in general but to your children in particular , which is very very difficult for er a male to understand and a non-father , it 's gon na be very very difficult cos I personally do n't have any children at all and therefore it is very very difficult for me to even comprehend but given that I can erm I can sympathize with something I do not comprehend it must be monumentally difficult for her |
| 4 | ‘ It must be quite difficult for you , ’ Claire said , brushing , brushing , brushing the long black hair . |
| 5 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 6 | Of course , things must be very difficult for you , ’ he said kindly . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ No-one works harder than Faldo and I admire him because it must be very difficult for him to do that . |
| 8 | When people are used to , say , £1 of their limited housekeeping money going each Friday to nice Mr Jones when he calls , it must be very difficult for them even to consider diverting that money into a different spending channel which would instead involve them — rather than Mr Jones — in all the work of paying it in . |
| 9 | It 's difficult enough for , for married couples and er for couples , so I mean it must be very difficult for for single and lesbian women . |
| 10 | Let me turn now to another way in which the BBC is responding to viewers ' and listeners ' needs in the current broadcasting environment — and a response that may be increasingly difficult for those facing commercial pressures to match . |
| 11 | However , this dilemma creates a potential tension in the user/carer-practitioner relationship and it may be professionally difficult for the practitioner to contemplate raising expectations which are unlikely to be met . |
| 12 | But she will probably already be experiencing more loneliness than they imagine , for much as she may enjoy her parent 's company , she will also have a need for other friendships and contacts with the world outside the home , and these may be very difficult for her to achieve . |
| 13 | It may be very difficult for the supplier 's marketing department to identify all of the individual sources of influence , or to evaluate their relative significance . |
| 14 | In the first place , there is a gap between say and do : however cooperative a mother , it may be genuinely difficult for her to provide undistorted information about her behaviour and feelings as they impinge on her child . |
| 15 | 5.22 Defective premises To give notice to the Landlord of any defect in the Premises which might give rise to an obligation on the Landlord to do or refrain from doing any act or thing in order to comply with the provisions of this Lease or the duty of care imposed on the Landlord pursuant to the Defective Premises Act 1972 or otherwise and at all times to display and maintain all notices which the Landlord may from time to time [ reasonably ] require to be displayed at the Premises The difficulty here is that this covenant could impose an unfair obligation on the tenant and it should therefore be amended as follows : To give notice to the Landlord upon becoming aware of any defect … 5.23 New guarantor Within [ 14 ] days of the death during the Term of any Guarantor or of such person becoming bankrupt or having a receiving order made against him or having a receiver appointed under the Mental Health Act 1983 or being a company passing a resolution to wind up or entering into liquidation or having a receiver appointed to give notice of this to the Landlord and if so required by the Landlord at the expense of the Tenant within [ 28 ] days to procure some other person acceptable to the Landlord [ such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld ] to execute a guarantee in respect of the Tenant 's obligations contained in this Lease in the form of the Guarantor 's covenants contained in this Lease Although this may be perfectly fair and reasonable in that a guarantor 's covenants are expected to last during the period for which they are given , many tenants try to resist this covenant on the basis that it may be extremely difficult for the tenant to produce an alternative guarantor . |
| 16 | It may be extremely difficult for the landlord to resist a claim by a person at the premises who suffers injury as a result of the landlord 's default and who was not a party to the lease . |
| 17 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 18 | If you wait for inspiration it may be more difficult for the Careers Service to give constructive advice . |
| 19 | But it would be equally difficult for the institutions to countenance such an outcome . |
| 20 | He believes it would be extremely difficult for the Irish Government , having made these special exemptions , to announce that other parts of Mayo are now to be added to the list . |
| 21 | Remembering that any discourse data to which the analyst has access will only be a fragment , it would be extremely difficult for the analyst to predetermine the complete set of discourse subjects which participants share prior to a particular discourse fragment . |
| 22 | I er I du n no I think you maybe do in the fifth year but I doubt it , but I mean it 's so stupid though we got it opposite our school I mean it 's not as if it would be that difficult for the people in our school to pay for us . |
| 23 | But the main difficulty was that if compensation were paid out on this ‘ once for all ’ basis , ‘ it would be exceedingly difficult for any future government ever to make radical changes in the financial provisions , however badly they were working . |
| 24 | Glaxo Group Research says it does not have a career break scheme because it believes that ‘ it would be too difficult for our scientists to keep up with the pace of change if they were away from work for an extended period ’ . |
| 25 | Miklós Vajda : Here in Hungary it would be very difficult for us to be integrated quickly into a structure like that of the European Community . |
| 26 | I knew that if I was with prostitutes it would be very difficult for me to get into the drug community and be accepted . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If there was a divorce it would be very difficult for Charles to become king . |
| 28 | ‘ As things stand at present , it would be very difficult for a Bishop opposed to the new legislation to continue in office when that legislation comes into effect , ’ he said . |
| 29 | It would be very difficult for other members to hold a leader falling past them without a belay . |
| 30 | It would be very difficult for anybody who experienced the winter of 1946/7 to forget it . |