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

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1 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 .
2 Sometimes the required information may be difficult to obtain and the implications of different courses of action hard to predict .
3 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 .
4 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 ) .
5 Unfortunately , the subjects found these estimates extremely difficult to make and the differences between subjects ’ estimates was enormous .
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