Example sentences of "are difficult [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 They are difficult to explain within the laws of electromagnetism .
2 However , they are difficult to defend in the context of aid when cultural values are different in donor countries and recipient countries , and when public opinion in the donor countries perceives aid as having a moral justification .
3 The historicity of texts might reasonably be thought to produce readings which are difficult to incorporate with the textuality of history .
4 Consider why it should be that A and B are difficult to discriminate in the first place .
5 ‘ The appeals which Anthony Scrivener ( counsel for Hammersmith ) made to safeguard the interests of the ratepayers are difficult to reconcile with the position actually shown on the accounts . ’
6 These drastic reductions in population through disease must have been restored quickly ; otherwise they are difficult to reconcile with the overall growth in numbers of indigenous people mentioned above .
7 Elsewhere , the modern names and regions are difficult to reconcile with the Romanesque ones .
8 Furthermore , with cursive handwriting , words are difficult to segment into the constituent letters .
9 The effects of exposure to light are difficult to accelerate in the laboratory .
10 We make the problem a finite horizon problem ( eight periods ) since infinite horizon problems are difficult to reproduce in the laboratory and random horizon problems can be misunderstood by subjects ( see Hey and Dardanoni , 1989 ) .
11 Protests of this sort are difficult to contain within the patriarchal conventions of the tragedy .
12 the collective community charge paid by landlords of buildings with mostly short-term residents who are difficult to register in the normal way
13 However , her books , though absorbing to the adult reader , are difficult to revive for the young of another generation because of their preoccupation ( even greater than that of her female contemporaries ) with social status .
14 They are difficult to investigate as the ones carrying out the dealing are obviously not the ones who have access to the inside information .
15 Hosts : Sheep and goats Intermediate hosts : Molluscs : Muellerious in snails and slugs ; Protostrongylus in snails Genera and sites : Muellerius capillaris found in alveoli Protostrongylus many species , found in small bronchioles Minor related genera are Cystocaulus , Spiculocaulus and Neostrongylus Distribution : Worldwide except for arctic and subarctic regions These are brown hair-like worms 1.0-3.0 cm long which are difficult to discern with the naked eye as they are embedded in lung tissue .
16 Although looseknit networks are difficult to handle at the operational level , at the level of theory they are likely to be important .
17 But all of these are rather conspicuous by day and are difficult to hide in the way that spotlights can be masked by plants .
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