Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] difficulty " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cultures selling and trade in general have low social approval ; a company selling overseas may thus have difficulty in recruiting appropriate sales personnel and difficulty selling the products through the channel of distribution . |
| 2 | This is relatively easy to ensure using any of the standard test pieces recommended for isotropic materials , but may still present difficulties when anisotropic and/or composite specimens are used . |
| 3 | Even if such an agreement is reached , employers may still face difficulties . |
| 4 | If this is true , then the Welfare State may always have difficulty satisfying the expectations of the public , even though the resources devoted to it since its inception have increased rapidly . |
| 5 | Sick dogs often have very poor blood pressure and their veins may be fragile , which may also create difficulties . |
| 6 | The addition and removal of sub-assemblies and components from the tree may also create difficulties as jumps between " branches " may be inadvertently created or breaks produced making the data inaccessible through the tree structure . |
| 7 | The manufacturer may also experience difficulty in monitoring developments and changes in the overseas market and adapting to these changes in good time . |
| 8 | The government may also have difficulties with its proposal to levy VAT on fuel , judging by the committee 's questioning . |
| 9 | Even so they may also have difficulty in covering the full range of literature suggested , though not in understanding or enjoying it . |
| 10 | Such pupils may also have difficulty with writing . |
| 11 | Employees ' spouses may also have difficulty in finding work in the new area . |
| 12 | The proposal may also cause difficulties in the following areas : |
| 13 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 14 | Mrs Clwyd — like Mr Livingstone — may well have difficulty gathering the nominations of 55 MPs needed to get her name on the ballot paper . |
| 15 | People with mental disorder may well have difficulty in doing some of these things but often they would like to try , particularly if they are accompanied in the early exploratory stages , and are helped to achieve confidence in using facilities for their own enjoyment . |
| 16 | It is important to understand Griffiths ' proposals because some of them formed the basis of new government legislation in 1990 , although other fundamental recommendations were , unfortunately , rejected — something which may well cause difficulties in the future , as we shall see later . |
| 17 | The idea is to help doctors and nurses who may otherwise have difficulty in conferring because of geography or timing , to review and analyse non-emergency patient cases . |