Example sentences of "some difficulty [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.

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1 When for once it is stated that Sir Raynold , the chaplain of Ridlington , Norfolk , owned a house and three acres , the reason must have been some difficulty over determining the value , which in this case is omitted .
2 For example , in writing the program outlined above , you would have some difficulty in telling the computer what an ‘ opening ’ is .
3 Tricon Foodservice Consultants has been brought in to give advice , but the Cassons have had some difficulty in accepting the drastic measures needed to ensure survival .
4 However , even with this distinction , there is some difficulty in capturing the imperatival force of the ‘ should ’ in an ethical system in which intrinsic value is the only basic ethical concept .
5 But it does put the court in some difficulty in considering the reliability of the evidence before us .
6 There has been some difficulty in producing a response panel sophisticated enough to allow for this range whilst still being easily understood and accessible to a child .
7 As a result he did a French translation of The Happy Hypocrite which was published in 1904 by the Mercure de France , illustrated with a caricature of Boulestin by Max ( Boulestin had some difficulty in convincing the Mercure 's editor that Max Beerbohm actually existed and was not an invention of his own ) .
8 ‘ The trial was generally successful apart from some difficulty in controlling the burner in its small flame setting .
9 However , when there had been some difficulty in getting the bidding started , the seller announced that there was nothing wrong with the heifer and he would absolutely guarantee her .
10 There is some difficulty in defining the disease and only patients with serious secondary diseases are included in the ‘ official ’ figures .
11 These result suggest that most elderly patients have some difficulty in making the best use of eye-drops .
12 Paul had had some difficulty in prising the really caked bits of spaghetti off the bottom of the pan but , with a light wristy action perfected on Wall 's sausages which burst their skin , he managed to get all but the blackest fragments out .
13 I find some difficulty in understanding the argument that 's coming from Leeds City Council , bearing in mind the emphasis you placed last week .
14 Perhaps the pilot had been delayed , or had experienced some difficulty in finding a taxi at the station .
15 But it became increasingly obvious that Britain , the mightiest Imperial power , was having some difficulty in defeating a relatively small number of Boer farmers .
16 In the next example , Christopher shows some difficulty in solving a practical problem .
17 It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results .
18 However , he added that there were some difficulties with framing a law to curb the sale of weapons which would be both enforceable and effective .
19 There were some difficulties in achieving a smooth transition to independence .
20 The Supreme Court having removed quite a few familiar landmarks without issuing much in the way of fresh navigational guidance , the courts faced some difficulties in addressing the issue of the Convention 's applicability .
21 The treatment was satisfactorily performed in all patients despite some difficulties in reaching the lesion in 20% of them .
22 Our test tractor did have some difficulties in keeping the revs constant down at the 700–1,000rpm mark , but this was an early model and Same UK says the problem has been cured on current machines .
23 Despite the weight of evidence linking the severity of impairment with the degree of hyperphenylalaninaemia there remain some difficulties in interpreting the data .
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