Example sentences of "[verb] more difficult [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We now know that special aftercare can benefit women , but male attempters appear more difficult to help . |
| 2 | Friendship he found more difficult to comprehend . |
| 3 | High above Miles 's head , beyond the terminus bubble , the Bridge itself was trembling ; it was becoming more difficult to see , as if something were being called into shape around the central shaft . |
| 4 | The goal was becoming more difficult to reach but the ‘ tide ’ continued . |
| 5 | The problem was therefore to find means of resettling a resident population apparently becoming more difficult to discharge . |
| 6 | Currently , however , distinctions between initial and ‘ inservice ’ training are becoming more difficult to recognise , as new alternative patterns evolve through the use of sandwich courses , internship schemes and multimedia courses . |
| 7 | Dissatisfaction with this position led to the establishment of a Royal Commission in 1923 and after it reported in 1925 it was made more difficult to achieve county borough status . |
| 8 | As working-class demands and demonstrations for full employment and better pay became more insistent , they also became more difficult to resist without risking a more serious confrontation . |
| 9 | And as the disease progressed , all the anxieties became more difficult to ignore — necessarily , because I was growing older and , in my regressive , pre-pubertal state , more of an anomaly than ever among my peers . |
| 10 | Only through his marriage , which for him was unconsciously rooted in an identification with the bereaved , did he create the conditions where it became more difficult to drive out or cut off from the attachment he both yearned for and feared . |
| 11 | Each time the workmen saw me , they offered a ride and it became more difficult to refuse , until on the sixth day I weakened . |
| 12 | It became more difficult to decide what total quality might amount to if there were optional gaps in what was being provided . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , as secondments became more difficult to obtain , there appears to be a shift in the direction of part-time courses . |
| 15 | On subsequent nights it became more difficult to prevent REM sleep , especially in the early hours , and the number of wakenings necessary increased night by night until by the fifth and sixth nights subjects were hardly getting any sleep at all . |
| 16 | At precisely the same moment at which central government concerns to reduce spending on the welfare state became dominant , it became more difficult to ensure that local authorities would do what was required . |
| 17 | These ‘ tides ’ can also be viewed as forms of diversion , even escapism , as the problems of the reform programme became more difficult to contain . |
| 18 | However , it became more difficult to achieve when those conditions no longer prevailed , as a result of the resumption of contact with North America and the rest of Western Europe . |
| 19 | ‘ As it became more difficult to find suitable premises for classes , Kay Evans advised us to become a national Society under the umbrella of the Central Council of Physical Recreation . |
| 20 | By resorting to a money-lender it became more difficult to conceal their embarrassment — than if they had merely run up bills with retailers . |
| 21 | If the anticipated growth of the number of entry-versions of text were to prove inaccurate by more than 15% , then the system would become more difficult to manage . |
| 22 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 23 | Words of English and other foreign origin will also become more difficult to recognise by the decision to remove the hyphen from many compound words . |
| 24 | America 's reminder to Germany of the value of NATO is one piece of a jigsaw puzzle that is growing more difficult to solve . |
| 25 | The steep hillsides made it more difficult to hide and transport cattle , and after the establishment of coffee plantations and gardens in the 1840s the crime must have become more difficult to carry out profitably . |
| 26 | Following the economic downturn of 1899 there had been a brief decline in strike action and contact had become more difficult to sustain . |
| 27 | However , the cuts in higher education funding have affected the social sciences quite severely , as sociologists have retired early and not been replaced , and as research grants have become more difficult to get , whether from ESRC or from charitable trusts such as Leverhulme , Rowntree , or Nuffield . |
| 28 | He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up . |
| 29 | But is n't it getting more difficult to repair cars on the roadside with the growing complexity of modern engineering ? |
| 30 | Herculaneum , the twin city to Pompeii , suffered a similar fate but has proved more difficult to excavate . |