Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USA , however , found it increasingly difficult to remain outside the conflict . |
| 2 | If an entirely innocent character , Terentia perhaps , embarked on an angry critique of patriarchy , it would be very difficult to remain within the tragic form , and ultimately impossible to interest a producer in the script . |
| 3 | I consider the most likely candidate for forgery is therefore an unknown cylinder or an unknown acetate disc — in other words , a one-off , which would be difficult to compare with the genuine article , because there would be nothing with which to compare it . |
| 4 | Rates of progress are , though , difficult to compare without a common yardstick ; obviously , evaluation of a country 's progress towards its own goals does not aid international comparison , given the differing priorities placed on residential safety and environmental quality by different governments and , indeed , by different local authorities . |
| 5 | I would find it very difficult to go into a situation , like a communal changing room in a big store , where other women would see my body . |
| 6 | She did not find it too difficult to go into a small shop — say , the local newsagent or the greengrocer at the corner of the street — as she was never too far from the window or the door . |
| 7 | And the , as I say , it must have been difficult to go through a day , between nineteen thirty-nine , and nineteen forty-five without hearing the National Anthem somewhere , somehow . |
| 8 | Tony Gordon 's Kiwis , who will now find it difficult to go through the remainder of their tour undefeated , are not as tight and efficient a force as Graham Lowe 's team of four years ago , but with a virtual Test side out , should have been far too strong for Murphy 's collection of reserves . |
| 9 | The familiar fraction " ½ " " is a much more common answer for lower attainers than 0.5 , and in the section on number it was evident that many pupils find it difficult to go from the fraction to the decimal even in this the most familiar case . |
| 10 | Unweathered specimens are sometimes difficult to see on the rock surfaces . |
| 11 | Hosts : Ruminants , horses , pigs , rabbits and fowl Site : Small intestine except T. axei and T. tenuis Species : Trichostrongylus axei abomasum of ruminants and stomach of horses and pigs T. colubriformis ruminants T. vitrinus } sheep and goats T. capricola } T. retortaeformis rabbits T. tenuis small intestine and caeca of game birds There are a number of other species of ruminants with more local distribution and importance such as T. rugatus , T. falculatus , T. probolurus and T. longispicularis Distribution : Worldwide Gross : The adults are small and hair-like , usually less than 7.0 mm long and difficult to see with the naked eye . |
| 12 | Host : Domestic dog and wild carnivores Site : Lung parenchyma Species : Filaroides milksi F. hirthi Distribution : North America , Europe and Japan The worms are very small , slender , hair-like and greyish , and are not only difficult to see with the naked eye in the lung parenchyma , but are unlikely to be recovered intact from the tissue . |
| 13 | Allen had crept under a bush and even asleep was as difficult to see as a wild creature . |
| 14 | Difficult to see into the oven during cooking . |
| 15 | Drawbacks : Difficult to see into the oven during cooking . |
| 16 | It is very difficult to see into the minds of the Government , especially when they are so concerned with the results of the Christchurch by-election and almost non-ratification of the Maastricht Treaty ! |
| 17 | It is difficult to see through the vagueness now surrounding the Government 's plans , but it is clear that ministers were both unprepared and unco-ordinated in their response to what MPs across the political divide detected as the stench of injustice . |
| 18 | I turn the other way , but it 's difficult to see in the mirror cos the corner 's been broke off . |
| 19 | Light flowed from them , full of faint colours that sparked and changed and faded , difficult to see in the sunshine . |
| 20 | Soil around the bunker and on top of the slab provides further protection and makes the base difficult to see from the air . |
| 21 | well , here , I think it fitted in , I think it was this way , it 's a little bit difficult to see from the decision itself , erm this do , when these were notified there were provisions in it for example in relation to admission and expulsion , which the commission objected to and erm , I think one can summarize that this must of happen , the commission said to the marketing question if you do n't remove this restriction or if you do n't erm eradicate what we see as the arbitrary element of |
| 22 | ‘ They may be large — around 40 feet long — but like icebergs 90 per cent is under the water and that is making them incredibly difficult to see among the waves . ’ |
| 23 | This employment context of increased competition between applicants for insecure part-time or fixed-term jobs with few protective conditions , suggests that the ideals of rehabilitation and normalization — that is the restoration of opportunities for participation in all areas of civil society will be extremely difficult to implement within the terms of hospital rundown . |
| 24 | Although new medical schools like McMaster in Canada and Maastricht in the Netherlands have had considerable success ( in terms of staff and student satisfaction ) with courses based on self directed , problem based learning , these models may be dismissed as difficult to implement in an existing course . |
| 25 | Bedford 's position as a landowner in both countries became difficult to sustain after the renewal of the war in 1369 , and his allegiance to England rested essentially on his friendship with the king . |
| 26 | The sure sense of the unchallengeable humanistic basis for English studies , upon which for example Bateson 's justification of the value of the English school in a democracy rested , became increasingly difficult to sustain from the 1960s . |
| 27 | It was increasingly difficult to appeal to the working man whose vote might put the party back into power without antagonizing the wealthy man whose financial assistance was crucial . |
| 28 | This Arctic redpolls. makes them very difficult to spot among the rocks , and especially among the brown seaweed . |
| 29 | Lie the central nervous system complications , however , they may be difficult to diagnose without the clues given by the coincidental involvement of the skin and mucous membranes . |
| 30 | Some patients landed with this label will have viral cystitis , difficult to diagnose by the standard methods of analysing the urine , others will have one of the genital infections like trichomoniasis , candida , or herpes while some actually have a bacterial infection of the bladder or kidney that has been missed . |