Example sentences of "[adv] difficult for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nevertheless it does show considerable misjudgement to make films that had little to do with popular taste at a time when it was so difficult for British filmmakers to find an audience . |
| 2 | It is extremely difficult for local government to discriminate positively in favour of certain areas . |
| 3 | The existence of large and mobile capital flows makes it extremely difficult for national governments to overcome market pressure and maintain an exchange rate which is not compatible with general market sentiment . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It is generally difficult for litigation-dominated firms ( whether plaintiff or defendant ) to build corporate practices : differences of attitudes between parts of the client base , as well as different attitudes among lawyers and different economic considerations , all play their part . |
| 6 | I would agree it is always difficult for small Associations to achieve sponsorship but as the saying goes ‘ if at first you do n't succeed … ’ |
| 7 | Certain developments in seventeenth-century science did prove more difficult for Catholic authorities to assimilate . |
| 8 | And erm should you go round them in such a way that erm is making it more difficult for you and more difficult for other people ? |
| 9 | There is still a strong sense in Britain that even to discuss foreign policy is somehow unpatriotic or obscene , and this certainly made it more difficult for Labour to raise international questions . |
| 10 | It is a little more difficult for central NACAB 's information retrieval section to isolate debt enquiries accurately , as they form part of general consumer problems , but it is unlikely that their experience is different . |
| 11 | Does the press narrow popular conceptions of rape and make it more difficult for raped women to obtain justice ? |
| 12 | There was FDP resentment at Adenauer 's domination of government , and over his consideration of an electoral reform which would make it even more difficult for small parties to be elected to the Bundestag . |
| 13 | Starting and staying in business is more difficult for certain types of people than it is for others . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They also made it more difficult for temporary residents or visitors to become permanent residents . |
| 17 | Atherton and Gatting appear the most vulnerable and there are strong arguments for introducing at least one left-hander in a bid to make life more difficult for leg-spinner Shane Warne . |
| 18 | It became more difficult for devout persons to explain why unforeseen disaster should overtake a religious group . |
| 19 | The role of the noise is to make it more difficult for particular types to unambiguously signal their information . |
| 20 | Those who can pay but refuse to do so muddy the waters and make it more difficult for local Labour councils to adopt and sustain humane collection policies . |
| 21 | It seems to be more difficult for human beings to apprehend the gravity of harms which take several years to manifest themselves . |
| 22 | ( 1 ) Changes in the ways that schools are managed and funded have made it more difficult for Christian Aid to relate to schools . |
| 23 | This distinguishes the position from that in Expenses where it was more difficult for isolated protesting States to remain aloof from the actions of the Organisation . |
| 24 | As Japan 's legal and political system conformed increasingly to Western models it became more and more difficult for foreign governments to refuse to entrust their nationals to Japanese jurisdiction . |
| 25 | Suffolk BMA spokesman Dr David Meldrum said : ‘ We are worried by anything which makes it more difficult for ill people to get the drugs they need . ’ |
| 26 | The contrasts made above between the political systems on the two sides of the Atlantic suggest that it may be much more difficult for British pressure groups to identify points at which the political system is particularly open to influence . |
| 27 | Entering and leaving conversation , bidding for a longer turn , refusing without appearing rude , changing the topic , are all notoriously difficult for foreign learners : tasks for which the language classroom , where turns are patiently organized and controlled by the teacher , has hardly prepared them . |
| 28 | The rise in house prices , which has recently done so much to increase the capital owned by a sizeable group of the population , has made it increasingly difficult for other people , and particularly those whose parents are poorer and who do not own a house , to join the ranks of the upwardly mobile , capital-accumulating home-owners . |
| 29 | It is increasingly difficult for social workers to stand aloof . |
| 30 | All these legislative changes have made it increasingly difficult for local authorities to avoid appearing to lurch from crisis to crisis . |