Example sentences of "it [adv] difficult [verb] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing people have significantly better recall for items which they vocally repeat at presentation , while deaf people find it more difficult to recall items when they have to overtly repeat the sign when it is presented . |
| 2 | Carrie found it as difficult to discuss bedtime as did Seb . |
| 3 | Leaving school at the age of twelve , Merrick found it increasingly difficult to find employment because of his deformities , and after jobs in a cigar factory and as a haberdashery pedlar he entered the Leicester Union Workhouse in 1879 . |
| 4 | Finding it quite difficult to get work but erm he was over at Christmas for a short time . |
| 5 | Those messages like ‘ Little boys do n't cry ’ , ‘ Keep a stiff upper lip ’ and ‘ Maintain a brave face ’ make it very difficult to describe experiences where we did not feel in control and did not appear invulnerable . |
| 6 | Little wonder , as things turned out , that in adult life poor ‘ W. C. T. ’ , as his cousin William Jowett Titford called him , found it very difficult to convince bureaucrats that he was really called ‘ William ’ , though everyone knew him as ‘ Charles ’ , like his father . |
| 7 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |