Example sentences of "more difficult for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It will make it much more difficult for me to convince member states to accelerate the removal of barriers , ’ he says .
2 I do n't feel whole , and labels just make it so much more difficult for me to understand myself .
3 This time the supervision was stricter , and it became more difficult for me to pass my butter ration on to someone else , to pour Ovaltine down the sink behind the matron 's back , or to dispose of extra food by means of the lavatory .
4 She exhorted him to ‘ follow your little heart ’ ; it was much more difficult for her to do so , and it showed .
5 I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home .
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 These factors continued to make it more difficult for him to provide the separateness and space that Liddie needed if she were to develop her limited confidence in herself as a mother .
8 Er that help is , there are fewer to draw from , i it 's also far more difficult for them to spare the time , the pressures on the academics are considerable nowadays .
9 ‘ Labelling theory ’ claims ( and is supported by research studies such as those just mentioned ) that catching and punishing offenders ‘ labels ’ and stigmatizes them as criminals , and that this process can in various ways make it more difficult for them to conform to a law-abiding life in future .
10 Erm it seems to me that the emphasis has changed slightly in the representations being made by the West Yorkshire authorities and that they 're now saying that it 's much more difficult for them to accommodate housing developments within their own er districts .
11 ‘ the simple facts which the court has to find are whether the defendant 's conduct in fact prevented the police from carrying out their duty , or made it more difficult for them to do so , and whether the defendant intended that conduct to prevent the police from carrying out their duty or to make it more difficult to do so . ’
12 Firms are less likely to set profit-maximising prices for their products when faced with rising raw material prices and labour costs as it is more difficult for them to estimate their expected revenues and costs .
13 As people grow older , however , they may be more likely to develop illnesses or conditions which make it more difficult for them to cope without some help or support .
14 Four out of every five currently leave school with no qualifications , making it all the more difficult for them to adapt to adult life .
15 A kind of downward spiral results , the kids growing progressively more pessimistic about their chances , their hopes plummeting and their general postures making it more difficult for them to get jobs .
16 But this also seems to make it more difficult for them to look at changes generated from within the state system itself , whose importance is stressed by Rhodes ( 1985 ) .
17 Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that he is setting an obstacle course for the courts which will make it more difficult for them to pass tough sentences in serious cases ?
18 Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings .
19 Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies .
20 The death of Gay News provoked a considerable growth in out-of-London calls for information no longer available in that magazine 's supplement , while at the same time making it far more difficult for us to obtain the information the callers needed and throwing an internal emphasis on that side of our work .
21 Horses also use other forms of communication , but they are more difficult for us to understand .
22 The road that they have created I think is having a damaging effect on the team and is making it more difficult for us to get the results .
23 It was a dismal yet necessary task , and whilst one can imagine a young woman 's producing such items for herself and her future husband , it is more difficult for us to accept that she probably also fashioned one or two smaller versions at the same time , for infant mortality was high .
24 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 .
25 Loss suffered because the dismissal makes it more difficult for you to find another job .
26 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 .
27 Not all transmitters excite the post synaptic membrane , some inhibit it so that it is more difficult for it to carry an impulse .
28 It has been more difficult for it to investigate the non-physical nature of prehistoric society .
29 She is certainly making it more difficult for herself to succeed .
30 When this is current practice it will be far more difficult for someone to take the stage once the work is finished and start making pronouncements of dubious value .
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