Example sentences of "difficult for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This magnet effect not only puts pressure on the south east but makes it difficult for other regions to attract the type of investment necessary for their own economic revival . |
| 32 | Knoydart is a closed book for motorists and for all except walkers equipped with map and compass — and it is even difficult for strong walkers . |
| 33 | We seem to have a breed of unadventurous promoters who can only offer us the likes of Grooverider and Carl Cox , making it difficult for talented newcomers to get the break they deserve . |
| 34 | To a large extent technology has eroded much of MI6 's original style of work while modern communications make it difficult for political decisions to remain secret for very long even behind the Iron Curtain . |
| 35 | The banning of one-party committees or sub-committees makes it difficult for political groups to develop policy with the benefit of officer advice . |
| 36 | The nature of public enterprise objectives makes it difficult for political authorities to evaluate and control the activities of the enterprises . |
| 37 | In particular , most metalinguistic and comprehension tasks are examples of what Margaret Donaldson ( 1978 ) refers to as ‘ disembedded tasks ’ , and as such are likely to prove difficult for young children . |
| 38 | Does the hon. Gentleman really wish to imply that it is difficult for young children to buy cigarettes from a local corner shop ? |
| 39 | No doubt it is difficult for young people now to appreciate the complexities and the rigidities of the social structure in colonial days . |
| 40 | The changes in social security legislation will make it more difficult for young people estranged from their parents or who have suffered physical or sexual abuse to receive financial or practical help . |
| 41 | ‘ It is difficult for young people who have spent large periods of their lives in an institution , and do not have supportive and stable families to help them , to make the transition to independent living ’ , said Shelter ( Scotland ) director Amy Isaac . |
| 42 | The increase in cattle killing was due to the sale-voucher systems making it more difficult for casual thieves to keep or dispose of stolen animals . |
| 43 | Under normal circumstances small favours of this type could be obtained by a politician with government connections , and it was only circumstances of a temporary nature which made job provision difficult for Scots politicians , such as the effective block which appeared in 1737 following the lynching of an officer of the City Guard of Edinburgh , when as a writer remarked , the hanging of Captain Porteous ‘ sticks vastly in his majesties stomach and has been a great detriment to our countray-men in getting any thing done ’ . |
| 44 | It 's difficult for various reasons . |
| 45 | ‘ How difficult for poor Louis , ’ Laura said . |
| 46 | As an important by-product it will also make it difficult for prospective bidders to build up stakes in secret . |
| 47 | The things we really want to know are too difficult for straightforward intuition ; we must therefore ask our informants questions that they CAN answer reliably and accurately . |
| 48 | Accurate scaling is difficult for bitmapped graphics , especially scaling up , so it is often better to use a object-based drawing program like MacDraw or MacDraft . |
| 49 | The Rye : Twist THE RYE are one of the NorthEast most successful homegrown bands at the moment , but their self-professed ‘ unpigeonhole-able ’ music has in the past proved too difficult for major record labels to get their heads around . |
| 50 | Thus Deacon has shown how ‘ the genuinely seeking work test ’ was manipulated in the 1920s to make it difficult for unemployed people to establish their claim to benefit . |
| 51 | It is not difficult for corporate officials to cover themselves in ‘ purity ’ even when they are breaking the law because the ‘ structural immorality ’ of their corporate environment provides a library of verbal technique for neutralizing the moral bind of laws against corporate behaviour . |
| 52 | It is difficult for Somali refugees to obtain employment . |
| 53 | Such combinations are generally difficult for natural language systems to process due to the changes in the syntactic and semantic properties of the constituent words ( and the acquisition of information about the compounds ) . |
| 54 | very difficult for blind people |
| 55 | Although there is little criticism of the foundation 's decision to support such research , other medical charities argue that its explicit exclusion of research on animals may encourage other smaller research-funding bodies to take a similar stand , a move that could make life increasingly difficult for medical researchers . |
| 56 | But in addition it was very difficult for unaligned voters to participate . |
| 57 | However , it was very difficult for local groups of workers to succeed . |
| 58 | All these legislative changes have made it increasingly difficult for local authorities to avoid appearing to lurch from crisis to crisis . |
| 59 | Now , on the national issue of course , like all legislation there are all the side issues that pop up after the legislation has been passed , and there 's no question in my mind that one of the side effects of the opting out legislation that it will make it very difficult for local authorities to reorganize . |
| 60 | It is extremely difficult for local government to discriminate positively in favour of certain areas . |