Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to rumours circulating in Würzburg , Party representatives in Nuremberg were finding it difficult to carry out their functions following the recent raids on the city . |
| 2 | Bales are more convenient for feeding , but with an old-fashioned long-tined hay fork , it is not difficult to carry a good load . |
| 3 | This is perhaps unfortunate , because it throws more of a burden onto plausibility checking ( and makes evaluations such as Walker 's rather more difficult to carry out ) . |
| 4 | In many cases it is extremely difficult to carry out tests under truly controlled conditions , because the external conditions are changing throughout the time period in question . |
| 5 | It is not easy to give a friend a ride in a wheelbarrow , because of the problems of balance , and it is difficult to carry sand and soil on a trolley with low or slatted sides . |
| 6 | The steep hillsides made it more difficult to hide and transport cattle , and after the establishment of coffee plantations and gardens in the 1840s the crime must have become more difficult to carry out profitably . |
| 7 | Aids of this kind are useful but expensive and difficult to carry . |
| 8 | Undoubtedly , some of the missing studies would prove very difficult to carry out . |
| 9 | This will be difficult to carry out on barnacles , but comparatively easy for mussels , limpets or other snails . |
| 10 | It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper . |
| 11 | As political conditions in China became increasingly chaotic in the decade after World War I Aglen found his responsibilities becoming not only more onerous , but also more difficult to carry out without coming into conflict with one or other of the Chinese factions making demands upon him as custodian of revenues of which he was in sole charge . |
| 12 | As a result the Keynesian approach to policy-setting may be difficult to carry out successfully . |
| 13 | After the first 20 per cent of the project , revisions become difficult to carry out if done manually or expensive if computerized , for major projects . |
| 14 | After the first 20 per cent of the project , revisions become difficult to carry out if done manually or expensive if computerized , for major projects . |
| 15 | In R v Plymouth Juvenile Court , ex pF and F [ 1987 ] 1 FLR 169 , a case decided under the old law , the court recognised that a solicitor would find it difficult to carry out the necessary close investigation of the facts without the aid of a guardian ad litem . |
| 16 | I 'm fine , ’ Laura mumbled , so used to silence first thing in the morning that she was finding it incredibly difficult to carry on any form of conversation . |
| 17 | you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ? |
| 18 | Since the force exerted by the spring is the same at both low and high speeds , this makes it feel rather twitchy , and it is not difficult to overstress the aircraft at high speeds . |
| 19 | However , like the newly decorated glasshouse toad , the mealy bugs , being white , found it difficult to remain unseen . |
| 20 | If the legislation was passed he would find it difficult to remain a diocesan bishop . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I am so incensed , that I find it difficult to remain objective about it . ’ |
| 23 | It is difficult to remain calm and objective when one 's own child is distressed , even if only through bad temper . |
| 24 | In these experiments subjects have invariably found it most difficult to remain awake in the hours between midnight and noon , with a revival every afternoon . |
| 25 | The USA , however , found it increasingly difficult to remain outside the conflict . |
| 26 | Maybe , now that Liam is a toddler , he finds it more difficult to remain patient . |
| 27 | Cashman shouted , ignoring Matt 's hand , walking across the room to lean on the desk as though he was finding it difficult to remain upright without support . |
| 28 | It was very difficult to remain frosty in the face of someone 's desperate attempts to be friendly . |
| 29 | If she were n't so tired she would be angry with him , except that it was difficult to remain angry with a man who had saved her life . |
| 30 | At such moments it was difficult to remain calm , but she forced herself to concentrate on the figures until eventually the task was finished . |