Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Farm staffs are relatively small and unskilled youths are difficult to accommodate and the cost , £30/week as against £75/week for a skilled man , is undoubtedly a deterrent .
2 It is appreciated that these recommendations may be difficult to accept but the ravages of addictive disease can be so severe that it must be sensible for those specifically at risk to be advised to do everything in their power to avoid awakening their potential .
3 Sometimes the required information may be difficult to obtain and the implications of different courses of action hard to predict .
4 Criminal fraud is notoriously difficult to establish and the evidence required to do so needs careful and skilled assessment .
5 In the first case the item in question is cheap to produce but the parts to which it assembles are difficult to design and the assembly process demanding .
6 In the first case the item in question is cheap to produce but the parts to which it assembles are difficult to design and the assembly process demanding .
7 In practice , these provisions will be very difficult to apply but the preamble to the EC Directive may give some assistance as it talks about the European Community being fully committed to the promotion of international standardization .
8 This is notoriously difficult to do but the difficulty should be yours not the client 's .
9 The study observes how listeners cope with messages which they find difficult to understand and the ways in which both participants in the conversation ‘ repair ’ and improve the exchange of information .
10 Such a pond would be extremely difficult to filter and the reason why your fish did well in it was undoubtably down to low stocking levels and a balanced plant population .
11 The handle was difficult to turn and the rope strained under the weight .
12 Such attitudes are often very difficult to shift and the therapist who forces an alternative view of management is doomed to failure .
13 Building licences are difficult to get and the developer who has been fortunate enough to obtain one is often willing to pay a much inflated price for a piece of land upon which to build .
14 Today , rambutans ( Nephelium lappaceum , Sapindaceae ) are distributed this way , growing up around deserted encampments of forest people in the Malay Peninsula , and several other fruits gathered there can only be swallowed as the flesh is either difficult to remove or the seeds are too fiddly to extract ( as in blackberries , blackcurrants and tomatoes in modern society sewage farms raise good tomato plants ) : for example the mata-kuching ( Dimocarpus longan ) and the rambai ( Baccaurea motleyana , Euphorbiaceae ) .
15 Unfortunately , the subjects found these estimates extremely difficult to make and the differences between subjects ’ estimates was enormous .
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