Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] difficult [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not believe that a contract which clarifies hours worked or tasks to be done will prevent teachers from caring , but it may make it rather more difficult to implement school-based initiatives . |
| 2 | While women only comprised 13 per cent of the students financed by SERC , they were finding it rather more difficult to find work than the men . |
| 3 | Longer exposure will produce both this effect and the associative version , making it much more difficult to see any decline in latent inhibition at the longer intervals . |
| 4 | The grant of wide discretionary powers makes it much more difficult to control the exercise of these powers by means of the doctrine of ultra vires . |
| 5 | Insufficient cleaning not only helps encourage pests , it also makes it much more difficult to control them . |
| 6 | The experience of rehabilitation centres is that people who come to them having been conscientiously cheerful since the day of their loss , who have never wept or allowed themselves to enter fully into the pain of their loss , find it much more difficult to acquire new skills . |
| 7 | That , far from producing better disciplined people , smacking makes it much more difficult to teach children how to behave . |
| 8 | Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that Salmonella typhimurium , a bacterium that causes diarrhoea , survives for much longer than three weeks , but in a dormant state that makes it much more difficult to detect . |
| 9 | you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ? |
| 10 | To deny that there is single quantity that can be characterised as arousal makes it much more difficult to generalize the results of research using any particular measure or manipulation of arousal to other situations . |
| 11 | Firstly , a defendant who is remanded in custody is likely to find it much more difficult to prepare an adequate defence than one who is free on bail . |
| 12 | If there is no crisis , top managers will find it much more difficult to achieve fundamental change , since the need for it will be questioned . |
| 13 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 14 | Failure to obtain such consent will not only deprive the patient and the medical staff of this advantage , but will usually make it much more difficult to administer the treatment . |
| 15 | But his intervention has made it much more difficult to forecast the result . |
| 16 | If you 've got them scattered about all over the place , it makes it much more difficult to try and save them , and , later on , get the data back in . |
| 17 | The present Conservative government found it much more difficult to introduce and regulate charges than it had anticipated , an indication of the difficulty being the long delay in issuing a promised consultative document on charges and the further delay before guidelines were produced . |
| 18 | Without the sand particles to produce friction , the worm-lion would find it much more difficult to complete this crucial part of its development . |
| 19 | Large dimensions would make it progressively more difficult to stand and move about . |
| 20 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 21 | This becomes very hard and makes it even more difficult to breathe properly . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Since Maisie was taken ill I have found it even more difficult to leave her at home sometimes , ’ she says . |
| 23 | Often they stay quite still when disturbed and for some time afterwards , making it even more difficult to spot them . |
| 24 | Using the services is difficult , and therefore use is infrequent ; infrequent use makes it even more difficult to use the services . |
| 25 | When attempting to specify the market attractiveness of strategic options , the finance theorist may find it even more difficult to use his conventional CAPM approach for determining a particular divisional beta and cost of capital using historic relationships . |
| 26 | It also increasingly removes one from the contemporary marketplace , and makes it even more difficult to foresee the future . |
| 27 | If this should occur it will only mean that the symptoms will intensify a little further , making it even more difficult to ignore the stress , forcing you to act to reduce the level . |
| 28 | Many East Germans say that , though they themselves do not want to leave , there is almost universal resentment at the official lies and the unbending attitudes of the authorities , who , by cancelling visa-free travel to Czechoslovakia this week , made it even more difficult to escape what one person called ‘ our cage ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ When I told him that the van was standard apart from a roll cage he found it even more difficult to accept . |
| 30 | This makes it even more difficult to restrain bank lending . |