Example sentences of "[verb] that it was difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers found that it was difficult to compete with the Scottish factories . |
| 2 | She found that it was difficult to stand ; she put out her hand to the wall to support herself lest she sway . |
| 3 | The discovery was unsettling , for it was commonly accepted that it was difficult to meet the impassive stare of the Kha-Khan elect for more than a few seconds . |
| 4 | In his first Report to the Governors , Daniels noted that it was difficult to teach three languages , and so he had made German alternative to Latin in the Upper School , and French alternative in the Lower . |
| 5 | But the survey showed that it was difficult to judge whether standards of spelling were going up or down . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman then implied that it was difficult for people to obtain certificates because of the cost of obtaining the qualifications . |
| 7 | Even he , however , confessed that it was difficult to control men who had not been accustomed to organization , whose " idea was that once a union was formed everything should be put right in a few hours " . |
| 8 | Most respondents to the survey said that Christmas catalogues were valuable , while conceding that it was difficult to quantify their effect on sales . |
| 9 | The three of them were so smoke begrimed and blackened that it was difficult to tell what they were wearing but two of them appeared to be dressed in white while the third was in a navy blue overall . |
| 10 | As Brian Harrison has pointed out , the peculiar nature of the problem as conceived by the moral reformers — as an individual moral failing from which social consequences flowed — meant that it was difficult to evolve administrative machinery to carry out their aims . |
| 11 | Most of our Shetlander informants stressed that it was difficult to talk about groups or categories among Shetlanders . |
| 12 | The Builder complained that it was difficult to identify the separate sets of drawings and there were also complaints about the lack of light , while some drawings , like Scott 's principal view , were placed so high that they could not be seen properly . |
| 13 | It said that it was difficult to use insurance mechanisms to cut car crime , but two years on , it is now using insurance premiums formidably well . |
| 14 | Pannell Kerr Forster 's Tony Foreman cautioned that it was difficult to see an exit route from property zone trusts and wealthy clients were inclined to put £40,000 in the BES before considering such schemes . |