Example sentences of "be [adv] difficult for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It has been more difficult for it to investigate the non-physical nature of prehistoric society .
2 Horses also use other forms of communication , but they are more difficult for us to understand .
3 ‘ So the character part wo n't be so difficult for you .
4 Worst of all , it was going to be extremely difficult for my father to teach Italian to Italians , which would be his job .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It will now be more difficult for anyone to claim that they misunderstood the law , as the Management Regulations — in giving more detail — make much clearer what is required .
8 For example , if you are economically dependent upon your partner , or afraid of being left for someone else , then safer sex will be more difficult for you to raise .
9 It can be as difficult for them to adjust as it is for the individual in distress .
10 Ward said : ‘ He is causing a bit of a headache for us , but he 's been able to get away with it so far because he has been unknown , but it will be increasingly difficult for him if he keeps trying . ’
11 Most probably , having married their own problem in their unconscious choice of partner — one who also disappoints — it will be particularly difficult for them to convert this inevitably disappointing choice into conscious commitment .
12 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
13 ‘ It must be quite difficult for you , ’ Claire said , brushing , brushing , brushing the long black hair .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 If Her Majesty 's Government have , at least in principle , accorded official recognition to Croatia if certain conditions are met , would it not be very difficult for Her Majesty 's Government or the European Community to deny Croatia the legitimate UN-recognised right of self-defence ?
17 He added : ‘ No-one works harder than Faldo and I admire him because it must be very difficult for him to do that .
18 But he has told me that if I 'm not regularly in the Spurs first team then it will be very difficult for him to pick me . ’
19 If he decided to accede to the request — and precedent suggested that it would be very difficult for him to refuse it — then he would have a further 60 days to appoint a panel to decide upon a prosecutor .
20 I knew that if I was with prostitutes it would be very difficult for me to get into the drug community and be accepted . ’
21 Swedish chief Tommy Svensson declared : ‘ If Anders does n't play for his club for some time then it 's going to be very difficult for me to pick him .
22 It would be very difficult for me .
23 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 .
24 Although manager Billy Bonds refuses to give up , he admitted : ‘ I think in the last month we have always felt it was going to be very difficult for us .
25 I have a very stable relationship , and also with my child , and I know that it would be very difficult for us to split up , but I do n't see why a bit of paper or a lovely ball gown , or a nice cake , will make it any better for me at all ?
26 John rather 's expectations regarding the amounts , they 're very ambitious indeed and I ca n't speak for Salisbury Park but if we 're expected to pay a share of any alterations and so forth erm it would be very difficult for us to meet that commitment .
27 So we find that there 's an intriguing chemistry going on in space that it would be very difficult for us to reproduce in the laboratory .
28 It would be very difficult for anybody who experienced the winter of 1946/7 to forget it .
29 The factory 's acting union convener , Pat Burns , has already said that : ‘ It would be very difficult for anybody [ in the Netherlands ] to switch to a new supplier short-term .
30 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 .
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