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

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1 One of the great difficulties is that many young people find it extremely difficult to admit that they have a problem .
2 Second , in courses which are organised around the expectation that most students are young and well qualified in a traditional sense , older students who have entered through different routes may find it more difficult to succeed than in courses where there is more support , both at an institutional level and from other students with similar backgrounds and experiences .
3 The steep hillsides made it more difficult to hide and transport cattle , and after the establishment of coffee plantations and gardens in the 1840s the crime must have become more difficult to carry out profitably .
4 The excessive use of embargoes devalues the practice and makes it more difficult to ensure that the embargo is kept when it is really important .
5 Here again , though , this is not by itself to say that where a co-operative can get properly started in a capital intensive business , it would find it more difficult to compete than would a conventionally organised firm .
6 In power , they found it legally difficult to identify and expel illegal immigrants , so many now think the ULFA has the more effective solution .
7 These pay levels have resulted in low morale within the Service and have made it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain staff .
8 At the same time , however , the parties have found it increasingly difficult to build and sustain popular confidence in their capacity to ‘ solve the country 's problems ’ , as these problems have become more acute and intractable .
9 This is the reason for the high incidence of pre-menstrual tension among women who find it particularly difficult to relax or unwind .
10 Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate .
11 Erm I think the , the point that 's being made here is that even within the defined areas of authority given to him by the constitution , the president finds it very difficult to act unless certain specific conditions are met .
12 In contrast to the other states though , Germany was still a series of small states and principalities , and this made it very difficult to finance and develop the railway network .
13 However , if you go back to a lengthy program after a couple of months you will find it very difficult to understand if you have not included any REMs .
14 Doing them altogether , I find difficult to do , apart from the weather point of view , if it could be fitted to two maybe , you know you co you go to somewhere in Church Stretton okay , it 's distant enough when you have one place to go , when you do the Wellington section , you 've got four , and I find it very difficult to work and chase round to children 's homes , to give it any .
15 I have a Series III , two and a quarter SWB and I find it very difficult to start and keep going , even with the choke right out .
16 On that occasion , although one of them only was present , both counsel and solicitor were in court acting on their behalf , and I find it very difficult to accept that neither counsel nor solicitor at the conclusion of the hearing explained in the clearest terms to the second appellant precisely what it was that she and the first appellant were to be restrained from doing .
17 This large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structures on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical spiral galaxy .
18 If you find it too difficult to manage or
19 Western Europe and Japan may find it politically difficult to finance and support Anglo-American interventionism in the future .
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