Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] difficult [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ) . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | But the increasing activism of its supporters , particularly young Catholics living in ghetto areas , made it more and more difficult to exercise restraint . |
4 | In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us . |
5 | That vast organization is as amorphous and as difficult to impose discipline on as the legislature ; from the most senior to some quite junior levels , there are many opportunities for bureaucrats to undermine and defeat a president 's purposes . |
6 | — For me — who at the age of 14 & a half , was turned out into the world , literally without a farthing — & with nought to look to for a living but his own exertions , you may easily suppose this a necessary prejudice — & indeed — the tardy paying of many of my subscribers — renders it but too difficult to procure food — & pay for publishing , at once . |