Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rates of progress are , though , difficult to compare without a common yardstick ; obviously , evaluation of a country 's progress towards its own goals does not aid international comparison , given the differing priorities placed on residential safety and environmental quality by different governments and , indeed , by different local authorities . |
| 2 | She did not find it too difficult to go into a small shop — say , the local newsagent or the greengrocer at the corner of the street — as she was never too far from the window or the door . |
| 3 | Allen had crept under a bush and even asleep was as difficult to see as a wild creature . |
| 4 | Unless and until agreements between the defenders on apportionment is reached , it is often difficult to agree on a joint approach to the pursuer . |
| 5 | Any group of five hundred and thirty five people find it difficult to agree on a common purpose or a common decision and increasingly , in period of crisis , attention turned to the presidency and presidents were not always willing to supply the leadership er that er the country expected . |
| 6 | Suddenly her throat was tight ; a pressure seemed to be constricting her lungs , making it difficult to breathe as a tiny alarm bell began to ring in her brain . |
| 7 | Mars is in your opposite sign Leo , making it difficult to cope with a special relationship . |
| 8 | Many patients find it difficult to concentrate in a noisy room , and are easily distracted , so the physiotherapist tries to reduce unnecessary noise . |
| 9 | It is difficult to come to a firm view on these matters , but the nature of support for third parties is clearly of particular significance and affords a crude test of the Alt view — especially in the case of new parties where there can be no established sense of partisan identification . |
| 10 | And because he was a doctor , he knew that this snake 's poison is difficult to find in a dead body . |
| 11 | It is difficult to conceive of a surgical technique that would allow implantation and removal , with equal rapidity , in a blood contact situation . |
| 12 | Thanks are due also to all those who took part in the experiments , especially those who asked common sense questions which I frequently found extremely difficult to answer as a cognitive psychologist . |
| 13 | Where the concept of the Created God is accepted , it is not difficult to differentiate between a healthy conscience and a guilt complex , for the criterion will then be known to be based on a single undisputed source of ethical knowledge . |
| 14 | But these statistics do not take account of the fact that , in continuous speech , word boundaries are more difficult to identify from a given mid-class string compared with a phonemic string . |
| 15 | Checklists are seldom employed to assess phonological skills , but are much more frequently applied to grammatical and functional language abilities which may be relatively difficult to elicit during a formal assessment session . |
| 16 | There is also the problem that the researcher 's observations can be subjective and are difficult to record in a systematic way . |
| 17 | Because of the enormous disruptions she had suffered in her life she was finding it difficult to manage on a day-to-day basis , and prison represented a way of ‘ escaping ’ from her immediate problems . |
| 18 | PP : … terribly difficult to project into a vast theatre . |
| 19 | A contract may be written or verbal , but the intention of the verbal form may be more difficult to determine at a future date . |
| 20 | It is consequently difficult to describe in a brief space , and the following account attempts only to indicate some basic features of government finance between 1471 and about 1534 . |
| 21 | His visits were regarded as occasions for embarrassment rather than pleasure or consolation , and he was left wondering why , when his motives were generous , these people should find it so difficult to respond with a matching warmth . |
| 22 | Many people who use drugs regularly find it difficult to exist in a drug-free world . |
| 23 | " Geometry " itself does not encompass such a clearly unitary idea as " number " or " measures ' and it is consequently more difficult to represent in a linked set of the main procedural aspects . |
| 24 | SATURATED hydrocarbons ( alkanes ) such as methane and ethane contain the strongest known carbon-hydrogen bonds ; bonds that are notoriously difficult to break in a controlled way . |
| 25 | ( In my experience non-graduates , for instance , can find it very difficult to get above a certain level in some companies . ) |
| 26 | A thickly built oak and beechwood sixteenth-seventeenth century refectory table from the Pyrenees , admittedly characterful ( Tajan 's auction staff used it for stacking their telephones on ) but more than difficult to place in a modern apartment , sold for FFr650,000 ( £67,550 ; $117,500 ) , over twice its high estimate . |
| 27 | Exclusive to Club 18–30 and of a very high standard , you 'll find the Aquarium hotel difficult to beat for a fantastic holiday in Majorca . |
| 28 | The rules needed for this type of parser are difficult to develop for a large grammar . |
| 29 | Sandpits keep young children amused for hours but they are often difficult to integrate into a small garden , particularly near the house . |
| 30 | The rate of ‘ obsolescence ’ ( i.e. decline in use through age ) is a much more complex phenomenon , and is also difficult to quantify in a generalized way . |