Example sentences of "become [adv] difficult [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When imported cloth became more difficult to obtain from the mid 1980s tailors and seamstresses reverted to using a higher proportion of home-spun cloth woven on handlooms . |
| 2 | Words of English and other foreign origin will also become more difficult to recognise by the decision to remove the hyphen from many compound words . |
| 3 | The rapid advances in this field suggest that computational analogues of human reasoning abilities will become increasingly difficult to distinguish from the real thing , and if a mechanistic view of biological systems is taken , this in itself may provide sufficient proof of the ability of non-biological systems to develop the ability to process ideas and communicate concepts . |
| 4 | With so many offenders claiming mistakes in the records of the bank , it became increasingly difficult to proceed with the publication of the list of names of those involved . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Collective security , which had been understood as an alternative to the diplomacy discredited by the catastrophe of 1914 , became increasingly difficult to distinguish from the traditional pursuit of a balance of power in Europe . |
| 7 | As fossil fuels become more difficult to recover from the earth 's crust , and supplies diminish , prices will shoot sky high , just as they did in the oil crisis of 1973 . |
| 8 | It is simple to set up , but it becomes more difficult to use as the complexity of the printed line increases . |