Example sentences of "[pers pn] difficult [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The punishing rain made it difficult even to breathe . |
| 2 | The extent of this digestion makes it difficult even to identify the prey animals , and the teeth are so fragile that any disturbance of these specimens during transport or burial would be likely to destroy them completely . |
| 3 | These considerations make it difficult either to design a trial , or to interpret the findings . ’ |
| 4 | Although Britain has found it difficult historically to slough off its economic past of stop-go , there are considerable signs that it is now prepared to do so . |
| 5 | Now that the Asian elephant has been put on the endangered list and included in the Red Data Book of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature 's Survival Service , governments will find it difficult officially to sanction catching operations . |
| 6 | She wished Evie had not spoken , since she found it difficult now to look at Lionel without wondering whether that day , or the day before , some poor child had been sold to him . |
| 7 | Was it was it difficult then to have to have got a job in Nottingham , you had to go to Newark because it was w work was n't as ava as as er |
| 8 | The Secretary of State found it difficult enough to maintain the unity of his allies in Europe over the question of re-arming Germany . |
| 9 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |