Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was going to find it rather difficult to talk for a few days , Kathleen realised . |
| 2 | We expect to find it increasingly difficult to do so at short notice because our budgets are under mounting pressure . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got part-time players and three or four are going to find it extremely difficult to get time off work . |
| 4 | One further point of possible confusion : because venture capital from investors looking for capital gains is not available to co-operatives , they are likely to find it more difficult to raise the larger sums of money needed to start capital-intensive projects . |
| 5 | Kelly found it hilariously difficult to concentrate . |
| 6 | Even the most loyal officials found it increasingly difficult to defend serfdom on moral grounds . |
| 7 | The USA , however , found it increasingly difficult to remain outside the conflict . |
| 8 | Later , after Calandrini had attended the synod of Dort and finished his studies in theology under John Prideaux [ q.v. ] at Exeter College , Oxford , graduating BD in 1620 , he found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his Calvinism with De Dominis 's Catholic syncretism . |
| 9 | She went vaguely back to occasional journalism and found it increasingly difficult to sleep in the evenings and get up in the mornings . |
| 10 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights . |
| 13 | The settlement houses were as active as before but showed little sign of expansion , indeed Toynbee Hall found it increasingly difficult to attract residents . |
| 14 | November had been a damp and drizzly month , bringing shorter days and causing aggravation to those people who found it increasingly difficult to travel in the blackout . |
| 15 | At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it . |
| 16 | Despite the promise of great ornithological rewards if he stayed , Gould found it immensely difficult to remain inactive while there was so much work to be done . |
| 17 | Such ventures , however , left out those who were most disturbed or withdrawn and hence who found it most difficult to work ; these were left to idle their time away on the wards , and it was always a struggle to find sufficient financial investment in equipment and raw materials to establish and maintain occupational ventures . |
| 18 | I think we found it quite difficult to provide the range of services at fully competitive prices and the one thing that this merger will do is to make us much more competitive . ’ |
| 19 | It 's very difficult , and I think that people involved in the Gardener Centre have , ever since its inception , found it quite difficult to work how quite how it fits into the overall Brighton scene , and I find it fascinating to look at the nature of facilities which exist in central Brighton and try and work out in one 's own mind how best he facility of the Gardener fits in with that . |
| 20 | And she found it terribly difficult to get dresses ! |
| 21 | He found it so difficult to concentrate . |
| 22 | For example , while some companies may have been able to ignore the social protest of individuals who suffered the effects of industrial pollution , they found it more difficult to resist organized groups of citizens whose opposition accompanied a marked decline in support for the LDP . |
| 23 | I found it more difficult to talk to him , somewhere he or I had changed . |
| 24 | I am tempted to accept the Minister 's explanation of his motivation , but those in my constituency , one of the poorest in the country , who made claims at the time of the reforms found it more difficult to obtain any decent benefits from the system . |
| 25 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 26 | Hence the increasing tendency for landlords to develop share-cropping tenancies to replace the crops they themselves found it more difficult to produce . |
| 27 | In power , they found it legally difficult to identify and expel illegal immigrants , so many now think the ULFA has the more effective solution . |
| 28 | I glanced quickly at it but found it too difficult to understand , so I gave it back . |
| 29 | I found it personally difficult to justify the cost to my society of attending these occasions in times of recession , and I would have dearly loved to have had the support of my spouse on the occasions when I did go . |
| 30 | For dairy farmers shorter courses were run but travel could still be considerable and some found it very difficult to attend . |