Example sentences of "and more difficult [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As concerts became fewer and more difficult to fill , he turned to writing music suitable for publication — fewer large-scale works such as symphonies and piano concertos , and more chamber music suitable for domestic consumption . |
| 2 | In the woman with bone metastases the pain became ‘ more and more difficult to relieve with opioids ’ , not surprisingly since such pain is better treated with other analgesics . |
| 3 | As the disease progressed , however , cold became more and more difficult to deny . |
| 4 | I look in occasionally for a drink and a chat though he 's getting more and more difficult to talk to . |
| 5 | Separately preserved and more difficult to date than these are the precepts of Childebert I and Chlothar II . |
| 6 | As the weeks go by she begins to receive visitors at the refuge and when she begins to feel the marriage is over , with the workers ' help she starts negotiating with the council and housing associations for a new flat , although she also feels the refuge is home , a safe space that is becoming more and more difficult to leave . |
| 7 | The second argument is more complex and more difficult to evaluate . |
| 8 | It is important not to let this develop into the second stage , which is a deep sore , more painful and more difficult to treat . |
| 9 | The aspect of the disease statistics of the twentieth century which strikes us most is the tremendous rise , particularly since the Second World War , in the incidence of all chronic diseases , which prove more and more difficult to treat despite the vast array of modern pharmaceutical drugs now available . |
| 10 | The secretary , John Allen , said : ‘ We need to expand our coaching organisation because people are finding it more and more difficult to do what is needed . |
| 11 | I did my best , but it became more and more difficult to do the work on the farm and look after him . |
| 12 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's more and more difficult to sell the fruit to supermarkets because they 're almost asking for the impossible , ’ he said . |
| 14 | It was getting more and more difficult to feed the cat — and to feed himself . |
| 15 | The implication was that A levels must be retained , though , if anything , made slightly harder and more difficult to succeed in . |
| 16 | The positive heuristic , that aspect of a research programme that indicates to scientists the kind of thing they should do rather than what they should not do , is somewhat vaguer and more difficult to characterize specifically than the negative heuristic . |
| 17 | It was paradoxical because although the subject was very deeply asleep , being completely relaxed and more difficult to wake than at any other time during the night , the EEG pattern was that of alert wakefulness . |
| 18 | Certainly the constraints of examinations make it more and more difficult to cope with the range of abilities in the mixed ability class . |
| 19 | Certainly the constraints of examinations make it more and more difficult to cope with the range of abilities in a mixed ability class . |
| 20 | There is a down side to this heightened immediacy in that spurious noises ( many of them unavoidable ) such as chair creaking , pages turning or performers grunting are made all to recognizable and more difficult to ignore . |
| 21 | Although this approach may be more ambiguous and more difficult to implement than more common practices , it seems to result in services that are more fluid , creative , and egalitarian and potentially more responsive to client and community needs . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's just become more and more difficult to manage — he wanders , and he has to be kept clean … |
| 23 | Black and Tan outrages had drawn only lame excuses , even denials , from the Government , and it was becoming more and more difficult to contradict the widespread assertion — by the local newspapers , by the man in the street , even by the RIC themselves — that the whole purpose of the Black and Tans was to crush Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army and cow the population . |
| 24 | Even before the pathologist had finished at the scene and the head was wrapped , the hands mittened in their plastic bags , even before Doc Kynaston got to work with his scalpels , the corpse would be an exhibit , more important , more cumbersome and more difficult to preserve than other exhibits in the case , but still an exhibit , tagged , documented , dehumanized , invoking only interest , curiosity or disgust . |
| 25 | The Popular Front government found it more and more difficult to maintain its legitimacy . |
| 26 | It has emerged in many countries that , as the standard of living rises , it is more and more difficult to run an autocratic production system using the indigenous labour force . |
| 27 | Although his general health seemed more stable after his long recuperation , he was finding it more and more difficult to keep up with his daily obligations , let alone those of a more public nature . |
| 28 | He could hurt her with so little , she reflected , realising that she was finding it more and more difficult to keep hatred alive as a counterbalance to love . |
| 29 | Military reforms initiated in the 1870s , which reduced the standing army , introduced universal conscription , and built a large reserve of trained men on the western model , had made it more and more difficult to insulate soldiers from civilian life and inculcate unquestioning obedience . |
| 30 | The 20 cases where major support was provided are harder to categorise and more difficult to make general statements about . |