1.   But difficulties began to beset him.

2.   For the first couple of days this was stirring stuff - until practical difficulties began to take their toll.

3.   Although Mozart the child prodigy seemed only too happy to please his father, difficulties began to blossom in earnest as he reached adolescence.

4.   And there the difficulties begin.

5.   But for McCaffery and her blind coworkers, the difficulties were just beginning.

6.   Mike Redmond, the Marlins backup catcher, homered to lead off the third and then the difficulty began.

7.   She is keen to ensure that her pupils understand not just the difficulties that Germany faced at the end of the war, but also where those difficulties began.

8.   The difficulties began almost from the moment Sony made its purchase.

9.   The report said the difficulties typically began as nurses tried to screen which patients needed emergency care and which could be treated in a hospital clinic a block away.

10.   Their difficulties began two years ago when Lee gave birth to triplets and they had to go on welfare.