Example sentences of "prove too difficult " in BNC.

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1 Certainly the joy had gone out of it , and the part-time teaching job she did had proved too difficult to cope with just now .
2 From 1940 to 1945 Winnicott was psychiatric consultant to the government evacuation scheme in Oxfordshire , and here he became directly involved with children who proved too difficult to place in foster homes , and in the setting up of hostels to house and care for them .
3 The Rye : Twist THE RYE are one of the NorthEast most successful homegrown bands at the moment , but their self-professed ‘ unpigeonhole-able ’ music has in the past proved too difficult for major record labels to get their heads around .
4 I should n't think that would prove too difficult .
5 Henry 's replies were equally blunt ; he offered help but said it would take time and , if matters should prove too difficult , she was to return immediately to England .
6 ‘ You can still be friends — and if that proves too difficult , then you can come home . ’
7 If at first this proves too difficult , an alternative method of grabbing the ankles may be substituted until the area becomes more stretched and flexible with use .
8 The seller might wish to cancel the contract if it proves too difficult or costly to perform , but this is not a feature of the straightforward contracts that would be covered by the use of Precedent 1 .
9 But clearly being a spare time hairy was proving too difficult for the NME of the early '70s .
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