noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hearing problem/difficulty/impairment
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a special telephone for people with hearing problems
added difficulty/problem etc
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Our yard is only small, and has the added disadvantage of facing north.
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It may not be necessary to go to the added expense of updating your anti-virus software.
anticipate problems/difficulties
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We don’t anticipate any problems.
attendant problems/difficulties/dangers etc
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nuclear power, with all its attendant risks
compound a problem/difficulty etc
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Helmut’s problems were compounded by his lack of concentration.
encounter problems/difficulties
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They encountered serious problems when two members of the expedition were injured.
experience problems/difficulties
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Many old people will experience problems as the result of retirement.
face a difficulty
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The hotel’s owners were facing financial difficulties.
financial difficulties/problems/crisis
have trouble/difficulty breathing
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In high altitudes some people have trouble breathing.
learning difficulties
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a school for children with learning difficulties
pose difficulties
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Physical education and games pose difficulties for short-sighted children.
practical problems/difficulties
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The local Social Services Department may be able to help with practical problems.
present difficulties
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Juggling work and family responsibilities presents difficulties for women.
run into trouble/problems/difficulties
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The business ran into financial difficulties almost immediately.
severe problems/difficulties
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The clothing industry has experienced severe problems in recent years.
solve sb's difficulties
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You can't solve your difficulties by running away.
unforeseen problems/difficulties/delays
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unforeseen delays in supplying the equipment
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
considerable
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Disability and age While the vast majority of older people are able to live independently, significant minorities experience considerable difficulties .
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However, there are considerable difficulties associated with assessment for selection.
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When the need for assistance is not even recognised, there is considerable difficulty for any advice agency in providing assistance.
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She wrote straightway to Ellen, though not without considerable difficulty .
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With considerable difficulty , Kirov managed to hoist the photographer to his feet, supporting his dead-weight by his arm-pits.
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The incremental approach is often appropriate for any child with considerable learning difficulties .
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She documents the considerable difficulties involved for researchers in approaching bereaved families and countering the disapproval of many outside agencies.
economic
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Under Mrs Thatcher, it at last appeared that our chronic industrial and economic difficulties were being surmounted.
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The extreme social and economic difficulties they faced on independence meant that the emergence of recognizably democratic party politics was by no means certain.
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The Labour Government was haunted constantly by economic difficulties , largely caused by an adverse balance of payments.
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But some of the country's economic difficulties have direct and indirect effects on provision.
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John Barons, chief executive of the owners, Century Newspapers, blamed economic difficulties .
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Gallup has asked ever since 1964 which party voters think could handle Britain's economic difficulties best.
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The immediate effects of changing the system has been characterised by economic difficulties in the new federal states.
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There may be all sorts of social and economic difficulties affecting the family of which the school is unaware.
financial
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Death and financial difficulties finally finished off the business around 1809.
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Income growth then will slow, companies will have less cash to buy back their stock and some will face financial difficulty .
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The firm's been in financial difficulties and moved out of its premises in the Brunel Centre last month.
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All the same, most of us feel that we have financial difficulties .
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He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time.
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But he quashed rumours that the Red Fort had been quietly put up for sale due to his financial difficulties .
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But its financial difficulties have deterred potential investors.
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The patient who was self-employed with his own business before his illness may have much greater financial difficulties than the employed worker.
fraught
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I see now that the simplest reconstruction is fraught with difficulty .
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One answer in the report is fraught with difficulty: to put an economic value on water.
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But it is also one that could be fraught with difficulty .
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The changes in health that have taken place in El Salvador have inevitably been uneven, fraught with difficulties and contradictions.
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Their ten years of marriage have been fraught with difficulties that neither could have foreseen.
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But even the comparatively simple task of head-counting is fraught with difficulties .
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It is this lack of codified certainty that makes a study of it so fraught with difficulty .
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This is fraught with logistical difficulties for the purchaser.
great
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Yet a great difficulty , if not a scandal remains.
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Even greater difficulties follow from the way in which Marx identifies production with human essence.
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The War drained men from many schools which then experienced great difficulty in maintaining staffing levels.
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Deborah believed that this outlook came from his fa-ther; she knew that Tom had great difficulty facing these emotions.
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The umpire, who was having great difficulty controlling his dapple-grey pony, hurled the ball in.
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It was only with the greatest of difficulty that the League could be persuaded to do its job in Danzig.
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Where that popular base does not exist such laws are only imposed on the population with great difficulty , if at all.
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It is often the person facing the greatest difficulties who is capable of feeling joy in life.
little
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I have had a little difficulty with it.
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Similarly the Dun &038; Bradstreet performance quality breakthrough teams had little difficulty identifying specific six-to-eight-week objectives.
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The puppy will then settle in with relatively little difficulty as a member of the family.
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She had little difficulty in learning when the men planned to depart and where they would stay.
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Most students have very little difficulty in learning how to make satisfactory launches.
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The ancient pattern of the Sanctus can be maintained in our culture with little difficulty .
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They then experienced little difficulty in deciding of what private morality consisted.
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He had a little bit of difficulty with reproducing the shapes.
major
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People lacking supportive relationships were expected to be prone to depression whether or not they experienced major difficulties or threatening events.
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The major difficulty is what to do with it once it has been read, analyzed, shredded, and burn-bagged.
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Given this, determining the nature of the interactions between the variables becomes a matter of major difficulty .
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The major difficulties are overcrowding, lack of books and materials, and low teacher morale.
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The major difficulty with this contract-based approach is the doctrine of privity of contract.
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One of the major factors creating difficulties in obtaining information is randomness in the external environment facing the firm.
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The major difficulty with comparing solar panels is that manufacturers' output figures can not be compared.
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A major difficulty arises when fossil species disappear for good as the physical environment, over millions of years, inevitably changes.
particular
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The way these responsibilities were divided presented particular difficulties in work on integration.
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In this way they may indicate a preference as to which particular difficulty will be addressed first.
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A particular difficulty about task synthesis is that there is no easy way of confirming completeness.
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Therefore, no particular difficulty arises.
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We will continue to finance training programmes for the long-term unemployed and those who face particular difficulties .
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This was considered generally impractical and in view of the particular difficulties of carrying out social research in Belfast, probably unattainable.
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It was in this particular field of difficulty that Balanchine sometimes showed his deep understanding.
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So far, this phenomenon does not seem to raise particular difficulties in cloning.
practical
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But such practical difficulties can easily be overstated.
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It is a murky field at best, and the practical difficulties in the Viet-namese environment were daunting.
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It also raised serious practical difficulties .
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The practical difficulty , of course, is to ensure that a partner agrees to a dormant status.
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In addition to these practical difficulties , there are more principled objections.
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However, it represents a number of practical operating difficulties , mainly because the process converts material rather than destroys it.
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Equally, one needs to be clear on the nature of the practical difficulties associated with computer-aided text-processing.
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There are practical difficulties with parallel computers.
present
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These two factors together mean that the fundamentals of the metric system present difficulties to them.
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These special categories, forming a substantial part of the collection, present special difficulties because of their age, condition and value.
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The present difficulties stem from the recession and the collapse of the housing market.
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He talked of the future; he made light of the present and its difficulties until Lucy lost sight of them too.
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Ask yourself again if there are any contact points between the hurts or wrongs of the past and your present difficulties .
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It is this contract, which Mr Morton inherited when he joined Eurotunnel, that lies at the heart of present difficulties .
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Categories 1 and 3 present relatively few difficulties .
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But the methods present severe difficulties for a feminist psychology.
real
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The real difficulty is surely whether scio raises a trust at all.
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They tried to move away, but they had real emotional difficulties doing that.
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If there is a real difficulty , get in touch with some one from their local community to see if they can provide an interpreter.
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Time is required, often to summon the courage necessary to talk about their real problems and difficulties .
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Herein, I think, lies the real difficulty about wooden aeroplanes.
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Likewise the identification of the 500-akce kadiliks mentioned in the Kanunname presents a real difficulty .
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Anyway, carry on and let me know if there are any real difficulties .
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It is no denigration of his immense achievement to point to these real difficulties which it raises.
serious
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It also raised serious practical difficulties .
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There are, as far as l can see, other very serious difficulties with the strong-Al point of view.
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This reply sounds very plausible, until one reflects on it; and then a serious difficulty emerges.
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Widespread speculation is that several others are enduring serious financial difficulty and may eventually fold or merge with more successful companies.
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However, even by the end of the war, the design had run into serious difficulties .
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But it also raises serious difficulties .
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Authors can also encounter some more serious difficulties .
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However, the Locksfields firm was not without serious difficulties .
severe
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They each have grown up sons with severe learning difficulties and need to be at home.
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But he was beset by severe economic difficulties .
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To these young men, this is their own very special pub because they all have severe learning difficulties .
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The only B.Ed for children with severe learning difficulties had 20-29 hours of compulsory language work.
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People with disabilities also experience severe difficulties in both training and the labour market.
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Both the above quotations refer to severe learning difficulties but of course severe is a term open to varying interpretations.
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In general, the staff/student ratio is rarely as good as in a school for children and young people with severe learning difficulties .
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He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time.
technical
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Then the runners arrive and the sustained technical difficulty takes over the interest.
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There were a number of technical difficulties with the vote count.
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Are there technical difficulties which would bother any members of the group - things like scrambling sections or exposed ridges?
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The technical difficulty in bringing the changes to fruition says something about how dramatic they are.
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However, increased use is being seriously inhibited by technical and conceptual difficulties .
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We've had a few technical difficulties with the computer, or rather our printer has had trouble with it.
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However, the interdependence of hardware and software poses formidable technical difficulties to running programs so transferred.
■ NOUN
learning
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Ward will also continue to oversee some learning difficulties projects supported by the foundation.
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Both the above quotations refer to severe learning difficulties but of course severe is a term open to varying interpretations.
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No one would deny that the origins of some learning difficulties do lie in the child.
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Andrew, who has learning difficulties , is a keen violinist and has earned a place in Banks Brass Band.
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But in this case the people with the learning difficulties are his colleagues in social services.
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In general it seems that the greater the learning difficulties , the more didactic is the approach and the more controlling the relationship.
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They families say that people with severe learning difficulties do not adapt well to sudden changes of environment.
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Is it possible that some learning difficulties arise from the ways in which schools are organised and managed?
■ VERB
arise
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This shifted the conceptual focus away from needs as defined in relation to the child's handicap towards educational needs arising from learning difficulties .
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In fact many of the severe events arose out of long-term difficulties .
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This specification problem arises because of the difficulties , discussed above, in constructing a price variable for an activity.
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A number of issues arose that emphasised the difficulties that safety committees encounter because of the absence of trade union representation.
cause
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Such divisions of opinion were causing difficulties in the functioning of local medical committees.
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At that time, my wife and I were also splitting up and it just caused some financial difficulties .
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This may cause difficulty where the audience were annoyed or distressed by what the defendant was doing.
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But subjects that are more abstract, such as scientific concepts or math, may cause them difficulties .
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If the husband's name remained there, this could cause difficulties in respect of any claim as his receipt might be required.
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The main factor for a road is public access, but where to draw the line causes difficulty .
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It was still possible, however, for the issue of civil immunity to cause difficulties .
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This can cause difficulties if wrong assumptions are drawn as to the potential of the new body.
compound
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She felt a bit like some one caught in quicksand, whose every turn only succeeded in further compounding the difficulties .
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But Brandeis' status as a hybrid of an elite liberal arts college and a small research university compounds its difficulty .
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These shortcomings are clearly compounded by the difficulty of creating new titles.
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Paradoxically, the relative unimportance of money in Soviet society compounds these difficulties .
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To compound the difficulties , the track itself is a figure-of-eight, with a dizzying number of twists and turns.
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A serious decline of leadership in local affairs compounds the difficulty .
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Although these task demands can be identified, they may interact or compound the difficulty in particular tables.
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Their effect was to compound the difficulty the liberal leadership had in bringing pressure for reform to bear upon the regime.
create
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A pedagogy which denies this perversely creates difficulties which hamper the learner in this task.
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So the vicious cycle continues: we create daughters who have difficulty articulating their own needs and perceptions.
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It has also created difficulties in furthering their cause effectively-be it in the courts or through bureaucratic channels.
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One of the major factors creating difficulties in obtaining information is randomness in the external environment facing the firm.
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Obviously this creates difficulties when staff wish to arrange extra-curricular activities.
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While war could create serious difficulties for the merchant class, other social groups looked at it in a different light.
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Fortunately these approaches create difficulties for the faker and also leave clues for the scientific investigator.
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When the two subsections are juxtaposed, however, they seem to create a difficulty .
encounter
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Yet, by viewing history in this manner Kemp encounters an historiographical difficulty that he never satisfactorily resolves.
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In their research, all found that new managers encountered special difficulties in working with more-experienced subordinates. 5.
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Whitehall officials have encountered difficulties in deciding which essential services to include.
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As a school-age child, she encounters difficulties comprehending instructions.
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If they buy on credit are they likely to encounter difficulties in repaying the loan?
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Constantly he creates situations for which he can find no earthly solution and his characters encounter difficulties beyond their means to control.
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Authors can also encounter some more serious difficulties .
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Problems of Status and Structure Volunteers who immediately assumed their permanent assignments also encountered difficulties .
experience
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Instead they will expand currency swap facilities to bolster economies experiencing payment difficulties .
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You may experience sleep difficulties caused by pain associated with surgery or other medical conditions such as arthritis.
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Disability and age While the vast majority of older people are able to live independently, significant minorities experience considerable difficulties .
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People lacking supportive relationships were expected to be prone to depression whether or not they experienced major difficulties or threatening events.
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Pupils with impaired vision Pupils with impaired vision will obviously experience difficulty with reading.
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In the survey mentioned above, the health sector was second only to mechanical engineering in the proportion of employers experiencing difficulties .
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Unfortunately Carrera have been experiencing financial difficulties and ceased trading.
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Even couples who already have children can experience difficulty in conceiving again.
face
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Now her family is setting up a charity to help children facing similar difficulties .
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Still, catalog companies have faced many similar difficulties and still built a thriving, multibillion-dollar industry.
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This much is perhaps to be expected from some one who faced insurmountable difficulties in coping with the work.
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In adapting to this expanded role the auditor faces many difficulties .
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Attractive though this approach is, it faces difficulties .
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Better still, talk to other postgraduates who may have faced similar difficulties .
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Yet students who have completed expensive training face the same difficulties as an untrained actor in qualifying for an Equity card.
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We will continue to finance training programmes for the long-term unemployed and those who face particular difficulties .
find
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It seems clear that she found some difficulty in arriving at an assessment of her feelings in relation to me.
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Switching off the lights, she found her way without difficulty in the darkness to the bed.
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I find much more difficulty with the second proposition advanced by Mr. Collins.
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Those who found difficulty in settling at Bunce Court had to sort out their own problems.
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She found the place without difficulty .
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Squids are so intelligent and swift-moving that they must find little difficulty in avoiding man's clumsy deep-sea dredges.
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The boats can be viewed from the Quay but disabled visitors may find difficulty boarding them.
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Those who accept the general orientation of modern science may well find considerable difficulty in coming to grips with this main point.
learn
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During the 1960s, class numbers dropped sharply and concern for children with learning difficulties began to increase.
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Gateway helps people with learning difficulties , particularly the mentally handicapped.
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The question of how to empower those people marginalised through disabilities and learning difficulties is, thus, a central one.
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When the scientists came to our school all the children were coming up with ideas, even those with learning difficulties .
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For a young person with a disability or learning difficulty this transition is crucial.
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Is it primarily a handbook for managers or a review of developments in services for people with learning difficulties ?
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I would be interested to hear from anyone who has developed other means of communicating with people with learning difficulties .
overcome
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During this year my father too succeeded in overcoming his difficulties with the language and with his new pupils.
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Only great eagerness to learn, on the part of the people, will make it possible to overcome immense difficulties here.
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This did not deter this student from persisting with different approaches to overcome difficulties .
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So a search began for ways of overcoming the difficulty .
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To overcome these difficulties , kings made increasing use of money.
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Only those strategies used to overcome difficulties arising from gender distinctions will be commented on.
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Modifications of a theory in an attempt to overcome a difficulty need not be adhoc.
run
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Inevitably, the proposal is running into difficulties .
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And with the theatre running into difficulties about subsidy it's not getting any more hopeful.
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It was built successfully but two attempts to emulate and balance it soon ran into difficulties .
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However, even by the end of the war, the design had run into serious difficulties .
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They therefore do not run into this difficulty .
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But delegates ran into difficulties in informal haggling over how to share the cuts.
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But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses.
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If you do run into difficulties , there are two possibilities; neither of which is desirable. 1.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fraught with problems/difficulties/danger etc
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Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years, the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties.
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For this whole business of killing, whether killing beasts or killing men, is supposed to be fraught with danger.
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He realized that what he was about to attempt was fraught with dangers, for Bernice and for himself.
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However, it is a move fraught with problems as our writers explain How long can it be taken as read?
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She had had a husband and lovers older than herself, and each affair had been fraught with problems.
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There are a number of tortured perspectives on how to get round this problem, but they are themselves fraught with problems.
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Thompson and Geir can agree, but their own deliverance was fraught with danger.
spare sb the trouble/difficulty/pain etc (of doing sth)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Credit cards make it extremely easy to get into difficulty with debt.
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I don't expect major difficulties, although there are still differences to be worked out.
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Manchester United won easily, and never seemed to be in any difficulty .
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Police officers in most Californian cities need to be able to cope with language difficulties and cultural differences.
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Some parents experienced difficulty when they tried to move their children to other schools.
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The difficulties of counting whales makes most population figures extremely unreliable.
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The books vary in level of difficulty .
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The main difficulty with this method is that it takes twice as long.
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The nation faces severe economic difficulties.
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Youngsters may have difficulty applying the paint because of its thin consistency.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Freddie is having difficulties, too.
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She lent me a couple of hundred quid because I was in financial difficulty .
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The difficulties of experimentation in this area are well known.
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The traditional way of undertaking market research is through using questionnaires but there are difficulties in gathering information by this method.
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This step should ensure that the difficulty level and the volume of material in any one session are right for the students.
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Whitehall officials have encountered difficulties in deciding which essential services to include.
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Work-inhibited children often have difficulty engaging in competitive play.