Example sentences of "[pron] increasingly difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most loyal officials found it increasingly difficult to defend serfdom on moral grounds . |
| 2 | For an industry that is one of the biggest single employers in this country though , times have been hard during 1991/92 and businesses country-wide have found it increasingly difficult to continue the level of graduate recruitment . |
| 3 | She went vaguely back to occasional journalism and found it increasingly difficult to sleep in the evenings and get up in the mornings . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These pressures are making it increasingly difficult to reconcile enjoyment of the parks ' natural beauty with conservation , according to the commission . |
| 6 | The USA , however , found it increasingly difficult to remain outside the conflict . |
| 7 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , at the end of a year when insufficient Terminal courses had been provided to use up all available Ministry grant , he commented that ‘ we may find it increasingly difficult to resist a reduction in the number of tutor-organisers we now employ , let alone claim a further appointment , if additional Terminal courses are not successfully organised in both established and new centres ’ . |
| 8 | Reports suggested that Rathore had found it increasingly difficult to co-operate with the AJK President , Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan of the Moslem Conference , a party closely allied to the Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) -dominated government of Pakistan [ see p. 37653 ] . |
| 9 | One immediate , short-term outcome of the disproportionate distribution of political support is that political parties which propose radical , particularly left-wing , change will find it increasingly difficult to argue their case in public . |
| 10 | Large companies still seem to be finding it increasingly difficult to retain top management . |
| 11 | Mrs Fellows had been finding it increasingly difficult to cope with her usual activities due to her aching legs and tiredness . |
| 12 | It may find it increasingly difficult to hold the Government to its promise of a 50-frigate Navy when the Warsaw Pact military threat is perceived to be diminishing . |
| 13 | As we have seen , in recent years Persil has found it increasingly difficult to sustain its traditional whiteness claim — which it was allowed to make 30 years ago whether it was true or not . |
| 14 | We expect to find it increasingly difficult to do so at short notice because our budgets are under mounting pressure . |
| 15 | She was finding it increasingly difficult to sit here , in his home , trying to cope with the spectrum of emotions that chased pell-mell through her from one moment to the next , and at the same time evince a polite interest in Richard 's remarks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Old , compressed cultures such as this can be notably cohesive and resilient , but they can find it increasingly difficult to adapt to radical , as distinct from incremental , changes . |
| 18 | ‘ What this all means , ’ says Mr Stuart Matthews of Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's Tokyo branch , ‘ is that the banks will find it increasingly difficult to raise large amounts of equity . ’ |
| 19 | In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Companies find it increasingly difficult to attract the right people in the £14,000 to £18,000 range unless they offer a car . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've found it increasingly difficult to attract youngsters into the game because of the success of , and publicity for , rugby league here , ’ Des Seabrook , coach of Orrell and Lancashire , said . |
| 23 | The settlement houses were as active as before but showed little sign of expansion , indeed Toynbee Hall found it increasingly difficult to attract residents . |
| 24 | The note to the accounts on assets held for sale explains that the marked and continuing downturn in the property market since 1990 , as reflected in the latest valuation reports , has made it increasingly difficult to forecast the dates on which Burton will have completed the letting and sale of its development properties . |
| 25 | The third group comprised the Party activists and functionaries themselves , who were finding it increasingly difficult to recruit new willing Party workers at the same time that their own work-load was being considerably enlarged . |
| 26 | These pay levels have resulted in low morale within the Service and have made it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain staff . |
| 27 | At the same time , the Association is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the requirements of all those who need our assistance . |
| 28 | Lydia was finding it increasingly difficult to place Elizabeth . |
| 29 | Will new sports find it increasingly difficult to find a place on television and will television ever again be able to nurture the growth of new sport ? |
| 30 | 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 . |