Example sentences of "[pers pn] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren Bicknell is impressed with Benjamin : ‘ His slingy action makes him difficult to pick up . |
| 2 | Over the years she had grown to love him in a familiar , comfortable sort of way , though of late a change in temperament had made him difficult . |
| 3 | It made him difficult to fix , especially for eyes awash with brandy , the merest motion of his head breaking subtle waves against his bones , their spume draining back into his skin trailing colours Estabrook had never seen in flesh before . |
| 4 | Law consulted Lansdowne on all matters of importance , kept him informed of the progress of negotiations over Ulster , but found him difficult to convince of the merits of compromise . |
| 5 | A number of journalists try to exploit then novelty of his ‘ death and amazing recovery ’ ; other people who try to help him find him difficult to relate to . |
| 6 | Captured by the Japanese in 1941 , David was interned in Shanghai for nine months , and contracted the sclerosis which caused him difficult last years and finally ended his life . |
| 7 | They need flat water to perform well and on no account should they be taken into waves , since , not only are they difficult to manoeuvre well , but they are also liable to snap because of their length . |
| 8 | I wish Peter would n't ask me difficult questions . |
| 9 | You often ask me difficult questions , and I do n't answer . |
| 10 | I hoped to heaven the pharmacist would n't ask me difficult questions like ‘ how many ? ’ or ‘ what size ? ’ . |
| 11 | Individuals can differ widely in their scores and this makes direct comparisons between them difficult . |
| 12 | If I , as an EHO , find them difficult , how can caterers be expected to interpret them accurately ? ’ |
| 13 | A comment was made that the idiosyncrasies of each library made them difficult to use . |
| 14 | It also makes them difficult to control . |
| 15 | Most of the many suggested grids bear little relation to each other , and their generalized nature makes them difficult to apply to practical Earth Mysteries . |
| 16 | tiles are generally stuck in place with a contact adhesive , which makes them difficult to remove if you want to change to another floorcovering . |
| 17 | But where they address discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , and class among subjects , they seem to find them difficult to deal with on their own terms . |
| 18 | They see themselves as special , and their search for challenge , novelty and change , their intolerance of errors in the work of others and their aversion to formal controls make them difficult to manage . |
| 19 | Frankly I always find them difficult even with × 20 . |
| 20 | The young parr which hatch out are dull-coloured , making them difficult to see in their freshwater home . |
| 21 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 22 | Does this make them difficult to follow ? |
| 23 | This can make them difficult to remove from detectors with individual ‘ drop in ’ battery compartments . |
| 24 | She dyed some of the rice grains a different colour from the background , these grains were easy to see : she dyed other grains the same colour as the background , which made them difficult to see . |
| 25 | Figure 6.3 Many species of birds give alarm calls when they see a dangerous predator The particular bird giving the alarm call runs the risk of attracting the predator to itself , so the alarm calls have acoustic properties which make them difficult to locate . |
| 26 | Many birds give alarm calls to warn of danger , but it is not certain whether the acoustic properties of the alarm calls make them difficult to locate . |
| 27 | Do choose bottles that have no indentations inside that might make them difficult to clean thoroughly . |
| 28 | The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult . |
| 29 | Despite the great volume of material that existed on the Mughals , I had always found them difficult to visualize . |
| 30 | The nature of black holes makes them difficult to detect ; all we may ever have is indirect evidence for their existence . |