Example sentences of "it difficult [verb] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Analysts said the statement was phrased in a way that made it difficult to confirm or refute .
2 They had found it difficult to part but , as things were getting desperate , they turned to magic and said ‘ Abracadabra , one , two , three , say the magic words and now we 're free ’ .
3 This whole issue about er children , junior church , other activities , children being compromised , adults finding it difficult to insist or persuade their children , that they should be in junior church , when other folks are trying to tempt them in other directions .
4 Incontinence may be caused by disease or infection , or because a person finds it difficult to reach or use a toilet .
5 If he has a facial palsy , he may find it difficult to chew and swallow , and you can help this by encouraging him to chew and clear food from the hemiplegic side of his face .
6 Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak .
7 Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak
8 Few headteachers , let alone governors and teaching staff in schools , will have come across many of the local-authority service departments mentioned above and hence may often find it difficult to appreciate and understand the outcomes of their systems and policy-implementation decisions .
9 ‘ Many of us do find it difficult to relax and that kind of thing .
10 The nationalised Boards , being larger than their predecessors , could , moreover , now afford to employ more specialist sales staff to cater for these markets ( though they found that their pay scales made it difficult to recruit and keep good industrial salesmen in competition with the electrical manufacturing concerns ) .
11 Also the lack of organisation , although contributing to the involvement of members , makes it difficult to expand and develop these movements to any sort of state or national level .
12 This is preferable to bathing the whole dog , as constant bathing softens the coat , making it difficult to hand-strip and untypical of the breeds .
13 It does n't really want to and I find it difficult to believe and I 'm not sure I want to because I feel so fucking drained and sore , but the thing 's actually responding , fattening and firming and rising in her kneading , soap-slick hands .
14 I do n't think so and I I find it difficult to believe and disappointing to believe that as many man are would deliberately spoil their vote .
15 His long , inexplicable silence had resulted in her feeling such misery that she was finding it difficult to eat or sleep .
16 When he did rise in the chair it was slowly and grudgingly and he followed McQuaid out into the stone hallway as if he were finding it difficult to walk or move .
17 She may find it difficult to concentrate or interest herself much in anything or anybody .
18 Without such a merger , Palatine will find it difficult to grow and will ultimately decline .
19 Does all this sound like a company which , as Anglo-Welsh claim , ‘ will find it difficult to grow and will ultimately decline ’ ?
20 However , a professional such as a general medical practitioner who has to seek the advice of a specialist consultant will find it difficult to verify and validate the advice of the specialist and this is true also of expert systems which contain knowledge beyond that of the user of the system .
21 Here the interests of the workers cross occupational lines … [ and ] if their product must enter into competition with a substitute product made under cheaper working conditions , they will find it difficult to maintain or improve their own circumstances .
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