Example sentences of "it [adv] [coord] [adv] difficult [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secretary , John Allen , said : ‘ We need to expand our coaching organisation because people are finding it more and more difficult to do what is needed . |
| 2 | Certainly the constraints of examinations make it more and more difficult to cope with the range of abilities in the mixed ability class . |
| 3 | Certainly the constraints of examinations make it more and more difficult to cope with the range of abilities in a mixed ability class . |
| 4 | Military reforms initiated in the 1870s , which reduced the standing army , introduced universal conscription , and built a large reserve of trained men on the western model , had made it more and more difficult to insulate soldiers from civilian life and inculcate unquestioning obedience . |
| 5 | But the increasing activism of its supporters , particularly young Catholics living in ghetto areas , made it more and more difficult to exercise restraint . |
| 6 | And it more and more difficult to imagine any world other than the one portrayed on TV . |
| 7 | Although his general health seemed more stable after his long recuperation , he was finding it more and more difficult to keep up with his daily obligations , let alone those of a more public nature . |
| 8 | He could hurt her with so little , she reflected , realising that she was finding it more and more difficult to keep hatred alive as a counterbalance to love . |
| 9 | Additionally , private landlords became marginalized politically ; industrialists had not extended the housing market and private landlords were drawn largely , though not entirely , from the lower middle class — the very people who found it more and more difficult to establish their position on local councils , bearing in mind , at least , the new element of organized labour via the Trades Councils . |
| 10 | The Popular Front government found it more and more difficult to maintain its legitimacy . |
| 11 | In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us . |