Example sentences of "[vb past] it difficult for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has tried to draft in fresh faces , and found it difficult for them to fit in . |
| 2 | It was agreed that the growing diversity of pressures upon schools made it difficult for them to adapt intelligently and consistently . |
| 3 | The enemy opened up with machine guns , but the glare of fires made it difficult for them to aim accurately . |
| 4 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 5 | It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly . |
| 6 | It had seemed an impossible dream at the time ; but to have an impossible dream was a harmless comfort , and their love and respect for Rabbi Moishe made it difficult for them to grudge him their co-operation . |
| 7 | Their duties made it difficult for them to meet frequently but they seized every opportunity to be together and their love grew stronger every day . |
| 8 | Banks entered this market in a big way in the early 1980s , after the abolition of the ‘ corset ’ scheme , which inhibited the growth of their interest-bearing deposits and made it difficult for them to lend large sums without incurring financial penalties imposed by the Bank of England . |
| 9 | But the craftsmen 's talents were crippled by unemployment , while high taxation on the former governing classes made it difficult for them to commission buildings or goods of a quality acceptable to Lutyens and his contemporaries . |
| 10 | The use of restraints upon building investment as an economic regulator to prevent excess domestic demand made it difficult for them to achieve their targets . |
| 11 | Indeed , Roberts herself makes the point that , for example , Anderson 's reliance upon census data made it difficult for him to see the extent of exchanges across households . |
| 12 | The dogs ' descendants were still with him , though rheumatism made it difficult for him to go scrambling over the fields at night with the powerful torch to blind the rabbits . |
| 13 | The brightness of the light on stage made it difficult for him to focus , and a large spot , positioned to give the illusion of daylight from a window of the set , left the recesses of the wings in obscurity . |
| 14 | Mr Powell 's lofty academic style made it difficult for him to approach MPs . |
| 15 | The three Service Chiefs welcomed his preference for evolution rather than continuing and abrasive revolution , but the doubts and suspicions that they had about Mountbatten 's impartiality made it difficult for him to rebuild complete confidence between his staff at the Ministry of Defence and the Service ministries . |
| 16 | After all those years in Paris he found the bright sunshine and the sparkling translucence of the air disturbed his concentration and made it difficult for him to work . |
| 17 | Here he drank pastis with the mayors of the Basses-Alpes , and even found time to lecture on Edgar Allan Poe , although his new false teeth made it difficult for him to speak French . |
| 18 | Her husband 's jealous nature made it difficult for her to talk to any of the customers for very long without him questioning her , and it was becoming worse lately . |
| 19 | An example of 4.3C would be if a person 's withdrawn , defensive personality made it difficult for her to establish close friendships , and if those same characteristics of personality , rather than her lack of friendships , made her prone to depression . |
| 20 | Gillian Murphy ( Mrs Seagrave ) has three young children and found that her career break made it difficult for her to get back into her chosen field of computer programming . |
| 21 | Although his cold manner made it difficult for me to talk to him , I had to ask him whether he had found any employment for me . |
| 22 | She was easily distracted by any noise , particularly if there was a chance it was food or another bird calling , and this sometimes made it difficult for me to make her concentrate on what I thought she should be doing . |
| 23 | When he thought one might be possible , he was immensely sentimental , would give up everything for a lover ; yet it was his own exigence that made it difficult for anyone to live up to him , to match his quick apprehension , his wide range of interests , the fervour with which he experienced everything . |
| 24 | Some unions , most notably the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , were reluctant to invest the General Council with the power to call all unions out on sympathetic strike action and unemployment made it difficult for it to fight against wage reductions . |
| 25 | Any other things that made it made it difficult for you to read ? |
| 26 | ‘ Holy Cross played very hard and spread the floor well which made it difficult for us to trap them in open play . |