Example sentences of "be difficult [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're difficult to control are they ? |
| 2 | " You 're difficult to draw . " |
| 3 | They 're difficult to find . |
| 4 | So he suddenly found that he preferred to write poems but what he 's actually saying in that essay , is that he thinks poems are living things , just as animals are and that they 're they 're difficult to catch . |
| 5 | Mm , they might be beautiful but they 're difficult to run |
| 6 | A sun hat will keep you cool but they 're difficult to pack , the Neal Street East shop , Neal Street , London WC2 have large brimmed , cotton , coolie hats that fold up into themselves ( around £3 ) |
| 7 | Sometimes London girls get bored and they 're difficult to work with . |
| 8 | I wonder if I could just raise an issue on item two three D on page four referring to horse riding because there is a concern about a , a lot of walkers , that horse riding on footpaths creates problems for them erm in , in terms of chewing up the path in , in such a way that they 're difficult to walk on , people even wearing boots . |
| 9 | It 's my life right now and if I 'm playing well I 'm happy , and if I 'm not then I 'm difficult to life with . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm difficult to fathom , but I 'm well worth the effort . ’ |
| 11 | Obviously waves may have frequencies of intermediate magnitude and so be difficult to classify as either destructive or constructive . |
| 12 | It would be difficult to dramatise Horton into a laboratory wizard on whom a man 's freedom might depend . |
| 13 | So Alan you go with our warm thanks and our very best wishes for a future which I know will be as valuable to the church as it will lead to a gap in our ranks which it will be difficult to fill . |
| 14 | In both countries , a significant fraction is of ‘ unknown ’ origin or ‘ background ’ , in the air long enough to be difficult to assign to any one source . |
| 15 | We saw , for example , in Section 18.4 that in transition in jets and other free shear flows randomness appears to develop continuously ; it would be difficult to assign a stage in Fig. 18.11 or 18.12 at which the motion is first turbulent , and it may be impossible . |
| 16 | Hours of work may be difficult to reconcile with the needs of the old person . |
| 17 | A relationship between annelids and brachiopods may be difficult to reconcile with data from haemerythrin sequences that indicate a close relationship between priapulids and the inarticulate brachiopod Lingula . |
| 18 | The policy of maintaining an adequate supply of land for housing can be difficult to reconcile with policies relating to green belts and the safeguarding of agricultural land . |
| 19 | Such studies will be difficult to mount because they will need large numbers of patients followed over many years to demonstrate any benefit . |
| 20 | Those means would be extra-parliamentary ; they would be unlikely to be confined to constitutional and lawful action and it would not be difficult to mount persuasive moral arguments for such activities . |
| 21 | He might have foreseen the problems that would ensue after their marriage , seen that there was a gulf between Charles and Diana that would be difficult to bridge and advised against it . |
| 22 | While the Symphony in Three Movements can survive the Klemperer treatment , it would be difficult to defend his 1963 Pulcinella , which is far too poker-faced for music of such lightness and grace . |
| 23 | Although it would not be difficult to defend the extension-of-sentiments argument on psychological grounds , this is not really necessary , since Radcliffe-Brown 's analysis can be presented ( as it is here ) without recourse to assumptions about the relative priority of relationships . |
| 24 | The desire to avoid appeal may partly be a reflection of the fact that standards have been selected by resort to the convention of established — but largely unexamined — practice which may be difficult to defend in a formal arena . |
| 25 | In these latter cases , it will be difficult to defend as comment unless it clearly appears as a mere expression of opinion which a fair-minded man could honestly infer from the facts upon which the comment is said to based . |
| 26 | The note and stamp should be in an area of the invoice where it would be difficult to erase . |
| 27 | If yarn is smooth , it is possible to weave a very thick strand , but thick yarns which include very large knop or loops and some thick mohairs can be difficult to weave . |
| 28 | Concrete can be moulded into the most complex shapes but it can be difficult to lay and you 'll have to prepare formwork to contain it . |
| 29 | Obviously if you did a course in engineering or modern languages and you are going for a job where these skills are required it should not be difficult to explain that this is what positively interests you and you chose the subject because you wanted to go on to employment in the same field . |
| 30 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |