Example sentences of "[adv] difficult [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is always exceedingly difficult to look at oneself within a familiar social setting without falling into conventional cliches . |
| 2 | , I did n't know that one had gone , usually it 's the bulb over there that had gone , but I find it so difficult to get at , you change it . |
| 3 | There have been few studies of office automation applications , but projections about specific skill requirements are extremely difficult to make at present because it is as yet quite unclear how office automation will be used . |
| 4 | As with people , language can be extremely difficult to learn at an older age . |
| 5 | The dynamic forms of these moduli are more difficult to arrive at and we must retrace our steps to the three-element model in order to introduce the concept of complex modulus . |
| 6 | It is much more difficult to get at property profits than at share profits — everyone has to live somewhere . |
| 7 | Yes it 's a bit more difficult to get at |
| 8 | It is a little more difficult to ski at high speed . |
| 9 | It is even more difficult to achieve at grassroots level , especially in those minefields with which both parties are well provided in countries such as Ukraine . |
| 10 | A contract may be written or verbal , but the intention of the verbal form may be more difficult to determine at a future date . |
| 11 | He knows one thing is certain — Forest will be much more difficult to beat at Wembley than they were against Wednesday , who joined Sheffield United as the only teams to have achieved a double over Forest this season . |
| 12 | It is these odours which give rise to problems , being technically difficult to control at such low levels . |
| 13 | The extent and depth of religious belief is notoriously difficult to estimate at any time in any country , but a few general statistics can be applied reliably to the peasantry of 1922 in areas like Belorussia , Kursk , and Tambov . |
| 14 | The pre-school market is large , positive but notoriously difficult to get at ; this major new drive from Collins should be watched with interest . |
| 15 | The definition of " plain language " will , it is suggested , be particularly difficult to arrive at . |
| 16 | The prostate encircles the beginning of the urethra and is therefore rather difficult to get at directly . |
| 17 | As we have seen the true extent of the migration to Coniston is rather difficult to determine at this stage , but many of the newcomers possessed certain skills which the mine was quite happy to take advantage of , in addition to their abilities as miners . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , it is rather difficult to tell at the moment because it 's nearly dark , is n't it ? |
| 19 | ‘ It was quite difficult to handle at that age . |
| 20 | There 's an igneous intrusion there , with fragments of garnet peridotite — that 's a rock from below the earth 's crust — and I 'd like to spend a bit of time there , though the rocks at the north-west end look pretty difficult to get at . |
| 21 | It would be very difficult to arrive at the same conclusion in 1988 . |
| 22 | I think it 's very difficult to assess at the moment whether or not it 's impossible , I would n't say it 's impossible . |
| 23 | The final two Ipswich cases were somewhat exceptional : one was a woman who was very difficult to find at home ; she was also being helped by two neighbours of whose motives the development officer and others in the psychogeriatric team , were suspicious . |
| 24 | Scotland coach , Douglas Morgan , believes sevens have their place ‘ but within our calendar it 's very difficult to compete at this level ’ . |
| 25 | It could also sustain redistributive policies that might be very difficult to operate at a lower level . |
| 26 | Perhaps it is simply the case that this is very difficult to get at by methods which are feasible . |
| 27 | And of ISD explained , with her staff shop sandwiches in hand : ‘ It is very difficult to cross at most times of day . |
| 28 | Their flight was as erratic as the locomotion of their ground-travelling equivalents , but they were therefore difficult to shoot at . |