Example sentences of "increasingly difficult [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We expect to find it increasingly difficult to do so at short notice because our budgets are under mounting pressure . |
| 2 | The concept of parental rights may be in serious general decline — ‘ it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile its existence with the predominant emphasis which the law now places on the welfare of children ’ . |
| 3 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 4 | Later , after Calandrini had attended the synod of Dort and finished his studies in theology under John Prideaux [ q.v. ] at Exeter College , Oxford , graduating BD in 1620 , he found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his Calvinism with De Dominis 's Catholic syncretism . |
| 5 | These pressures are making it increasingly difficult to reconcile enjoyment of the parks ' natural beauty with conservation , according to the commission . |
| 6 | Old , compressed cultures such as this can be notably cohesive and resilient , but they can find it increasingly difficult to adapt to radical , as distinct from incremental , changes . |
| 7 | It was becoming increasingly difficult to prevaricate . |
| 8 | STRIKER Paul Wilkinson is beating out a message that England boss Graham Taylor may find increasingly difficult to ignore . |
| 9 | It may find it increasingly difficult to hold the Government to its promise of a 50-frigate Navy when the Warsaw Pact military threat is perceived to be diminishing . |
| 10 | IT IS becoming increasingly difficult to take seriously claims that the civil side of nuclear power has nothing to do with nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | As the trial progressed , and the evidence mounted up , it became increasingly difficult to take the plea seriously . |
| 12 | It was increasingly difficult to see what the party line was : the Chief Whip , Lord Edmund Talbot , had summoned Robert Sanders back from war service and after his return in May 1917 he was pressed into the party 's service . |
| 13 | This is an important point and one now increasingly difficult to see . |
| 14 | He also notes that it is increasingly difficult to persuade donors that uneconomic development schemes ( and the roads and sewers that have accompanied them ) should be paid for with drug-control money . |
| 15 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 16 | The effect of his successive encounters and discoveries — which are very sparse — is that things become more complicated , or rather , that they become increasingly difficult to describe , to ‘ capture ’ . |
| 17 | The balancing act became increasingly difficult to sustain . |
| 18 | This practice , however , is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain . |
| 19 | It was a courageous policy , which became increasingly difficult to sustain in face of the violence to which southern blacks were subjected . |
| 20 | The sure sense of the unchallengeable humanistic basis for English studies , upon which for example Bateson 's justification of the value of the English school in a democracy rested , became increasingly difficult to sustain from the 1960s . |
| 21 | As we have seen , in recent years Persil has found it increasingly difficult to sustain its traditional whiteness claim — which it was allowed to make 30 years ago whether it was true or not . |
| 22 | As Laffin and Young ( 1985 ) observe , the break up of the post-war consensus , coupled with the passing of the earlier period of growth and the increased politicization of local government , has made the officer 's professional stance increasingly difficult to sustain . |
| 23 | Appropriate revision should ensure that the scheme keeps up to date , but large scale reclassifying remains unpopular and an uneasy balance between updating and stability must be maintained ; this balance is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain as knowledge changes rapidly . |
| 24 | The legitimacy of present-day regimes depends to an overwhelming extent , and has so depended since the end of the Second World War , upon the effective promotion of a high rate of economic growth ; and if that rate becomes increasingly difficult to sustain , and tends to decline , as a result of both social and physical limits to growth , what will take its place as a legitimating purpose for governments ? |
| 25 | We are not aware of any such evaluation in progress , in Britain or the United States , and it will be increasingly difficult to undertake this if screening is adopted as part of clinical practice . |
| 26 | Their exercise , in terms of the movements they make as part of everyday living , become increasingly difficult to perform . |
| 27 | For an industry that is one of the biggest single employers in this country though , times have been hard during 1991/92 and businesses country-wide have found it increasingly difficult to continue the level of graduate recruitment . |
| 28 | Even moderate Muslims agree that Mr Azam 's question will become increasingly difficult to answer if the war drags on for months and if the allies damage some of the holy sites of Shia Islam in Iraq . |
| 29 | However , the increasing difficulty of finding evidence , let alone proof , of what actually has been the use since 1963 , the prerequisite for such a certificate , makes the procedure increasingly difficult to use . |
| 30 | As the study of the known sector progressed , it became increasingly difficult to generate further interviews as most of those amenable to interview had already sent in positive response sheets . |