Example sentences of "it difficult [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The van was crowded with men in damp overcoats , and their weight made it difficult to control over the hard bumpy ice . |
| 2 | Mars is in your opposite sign Leo , making it difficult to cope with a special relationship . |
| 3 | Even if this were the case , there would still be the social problems experienced by mentally handicapped people who may have spent most of their lives in a hospital and find it difficult to cope with a completely new environment . |
| 4 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 5 | Carers often find it difficult to cope with the problem of feeding the patient . |
| 6 | Many of the townsfolk could not understand them and Ranulf , particularly , found it difficult to cope with the broad flow of Scottish his questions provoked . |
| 7 | It is when morale is very low that we find it difficult to cope with the problems and difficulties of life , and when counselling can become vitally important . |
| 8 | It was not an ideal situation , Hari found it difficult to cope with the hard exacting work of a shoemaker and the demands of her short tempered mother . |
| 9 | The leaders of the new organisations also found it difficult to cope with the speed of growth of their organisations . |
| 10 | Home helps said they were finding it difficult to cope with the extra responsibility . |
| 11 | ‘ Simon 's childhood had left him with a feeling of inadequacy and a strong envious streak , which meant he found it difficult to live with the idea of an associate being better than him . |
| 12 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 13 | Although the mechanisms behind this geographical variance are unclear , what is not in dispute is that spatial polarization in voting behaviour has increased steadily , especially during the three general elections of 1979 , 1983 and 1987 , making it difficult to disagree with the conclusion that the ‘ nationalization ’ of British politics has now been replaced by an emerging local differentiation . |
| 14 | Many people who use drugs regularly find it difficult to exist in a drug-free world . |
| 15 | He was a taciturn man who found it difficult to talk to a boy ; but he did sometimes spare time to tell him of his travels in the wilder parts of Alberta , of encounters with grizzly bears , white water rushing through narrow gorges , being lost in unexpected snowstorms , in an unconquered wilderness totally alien to his suburb-bred son . |
| 16 | Some of the groups found that the sound quality was so poor as to make it difficult to listen to the recordings . |
| 17 | Tony Gordon 's Kiwis , who will now find it difficult to go through the remainder of their tour undefeated , are not as tight and efficient a force as Graham Lowe 's team of four years ago , but with a virtual Test side out , should have been far too strong for Murphy 's collection of reserves . |
| 18 | The familiar fraction " ½ " " is a much more common answer for lower attainers than 0.5 , and in the section on number it was evident that many pupils find it difficult to go from the fraction to the decimal even in this the most familiar case . |
| 19 | Suddenly her throat was tight ; a pressure seemed to be constricting her lungs , making it difficult to breathe as a tiny alarm bell began to ring in her brain . |
| 20 | It will be evident that the Pearce-Hall theory finds it difficult to deal with the effects of contextual factors . |
| 21 | It has even been held that refusing to hand over the registration book of the plaintiff 's car amounts to conversion of the car since the absence of the book makes it difficult to deal with the car . |
| 22 | The latter has lovely tones but is not always an easy leaf to use as its heavy colouring can make it difficult to incorporate into a design . |
| 23 | Any group of five hundred and thirty five people find it difficult to agree on a common purpose or a common decision and increasingly , in period of crisis , attention turned to the presidency and presidents were not always willing to supply the leadership er that er the country expected . |
| 24 | What was no doubt intended to be a moment of triumph fell absolutely flat , particularly as the late editor of the Evening Standard — Charles Wintour — was roused to indignation sufficiently vigorous to make it difficult to continue with the dinner . |
| 25 | And some carers and dependents find it difficult to adapt to a role reversal — the old person of course not wanting to relinquish her dominant role and the carer finding it difficult to cope with becoming the decision maker . ’ |
| 26 | A study by Parker , however , using a national sample , reached conclusions which were slightly more supportive of labour mobility programmes : Only 13 per cent of his sample said they would not have moved without a grant but 56 per cent said they would have found it difficult to move without a grant . |
| 27 | Students often find it difficult to move from the approach and conceptual basis of one subject to the other . |
| 28 | We pack and move on , the dogs finding it difficult to move in the fresh snow . |
| 29 | In the drama departments there was a general welcome for the move away from written papers , which had been seen by many drama specialists as a cause of confusion between drama and English literature , with students often finding it difficult to respond to the change in emphasis towards a set text that this involved . |
| 30 | Many transracial adopters find it difficult to refer to the child as black , and moreover they feel , as we have seen , that telling the child about his or her ethnic origin is potentially dangerous ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 130 ) . |