Example sentences of "difficult to obtain " in BNC.
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| 1 | The international marketer , therefore , is still faced with a multitude of differing legal environments , about which information may be difficult to obtain , and once obtained may be very difficult to interpret . |
| 2 | Information is usually difficult to obtain or unreliable in less-developed countries , and the problem is obtaining enough of it that is relevant and trustworthy . |
| 3 | When imported cloth became more difficult to obtain from the mid 1980s tailors and seamstresses reverted to using a higher proportion of home-spun cloth woven on handlooms . |
| 4 | Information , even from the Scandinavian tourist boards , was difficult to obtain . |
| 5 | Until recently , cowl bases ( or ‘ curbs ’ ) were made from elm , but Dutch elm disease has made this material difficult to obtain . |
| 6 | I am often asked for this but it is difficult to obtain . |
| 7 | Coulommiers is a small Brie , eaten very young when the surface mould is only just starting to appear , and Fongeru is similar but ripened in fronds of bracken and very difficult to obtain . |
| 8 | I find it very difficult to obtain a regular supply of van Houten 's cocoa ; it sells almost immediately , so if you see it , buy it . |
| 9 | In a recent widespread drought , when all pastures were eaten bare and it was very difficult to obtain hay , a large number of horses were maintained in good condition on grain but received only half their normal ration of hay . |
| 10 | It lacks versatility and is often difficult to obtain . |
| 11 | Although reliable figures are difficult to obtain , some 10 per cent of patients with late , untreated syphilis will go on to develop syphilitic complications involving the heart and major blood-vessels . |
| 12 | If money is short while the patient is ill , there is great pressure on the carer and the family , and often it may mean that the patient is unable to receive the specialist rehabilitation treatment which is increasingly difficult to obtain under the National Health Service . |
| 13 | Although it is difficult to obtain precise information on individual titles , it would now be fairly typical for a general publisher to aim to keep books in print for two years rather than five . |
| 14 | The latter measures are much more difficult to obtain , and relationships between them are the subject of this chapter . |
| 15 | Characteristically , the data used may be more difficult to obtain and are usually more spatially aggregated ; modelling software which permits feedback loops is essential ; |
| 16 | But the ground conditions in some parts of Europe make good results extremely difficult to obtain : some areas of Portugal , for instance , have field sizes of only a few metres and exhibit multi-level and multi-seasonal cropping . |
| 17 | For most diurnal raptors it was difficult to obtain large enough samples , not through any shortage of pellet collections but because they contained so little bone . |
| 18 | The second part of step two is often neglected by teachers , mainly because it is difficult to obtain accurate information . |
| 19 | Regular and systematic analysis of a country 's newspapers can provide information on social trends , which may be difficult to obtain from other sources . |
| 20 | Good thatch is difficult to obtain in many parts of the world , and in the Indian State of Kamataka peasants now have to buy bamboo at 1200 rupees a tonne on the free market ( about £80 a tonne ) whereas the paper industry is still able to get it at 15 rupees a tonne ( £1 ) from the government 's reserved forests . |
| 21 | An alternative to water in sprays is needed in the tropics where water is often very difficult to obtain or transport to the field ; it evaporates so rapidly that the effectiveness of sprays is further reduced . |
| 22 | It is difficult to obtain accurate figures from the wilder , more snake-ridden parts of the world , such as Africa , Asia and South America , but an attempt at a global survey carried out in the 1950s gave a total world figure of thirty thousand deaths annually from all forms of snakebite . |
| 23 | There is a certain medicinal thinking behind the labelling , a feeling that a book that is difficult to read and difficult to obtain meaning and enjoyment from , must be good for young people in some way . |
| 24 | This vitamin is missing in a vegan diet and may be difficult to obtain in vegetarian diets |
| 25 | Sometimes the required information may be difficult to obtain and the implications of different courses of action hard to predict . |
| 26 | Similarly , accurate estimates of the marginal costs of production are often very difficult to obtain . |
| 27 | This number is seen to be much higher in the later 1970s and in the 1980s , supporting the view that more and more school-leavers were then finding it increasingly difficult to obtain jobs in the first six months after leaving school . |
| 28 | Operating schedules inevitably put pressure on aircraft down time and because aircraft manufacturers are operating to maximum capacity producing new aircraft , spare parts may also become difficult to obtain particularly for the more mature aircraft types . |
| 29 | On the other hand companies in other EC countries have to rely more on debt finance in order to make any acquisitions , which may be more difficult to obtain . |
| 30 | The newly-minted coins can be difficult to obtain , but the lady of the manor has the advantage of working in a bank so can put in a special plea . |