Example sentences of "[adv] is [adv] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two microscope slides can be placed together with water or oil between them to allow for easy movement across one another , but trying to pull them apart without sliding the surfaces together is very difficult . |
| 2 | Donning the black cap of death row and unfurling a banner reading ABANDON HOPE ALL YOU WHO ENTER HERE , he tells the twitchers ; ‘ The position we are in is very difficult . |
| 3 | To break it down is extremely difficult . |
| 4 | Investigating and controlling the spread of tuberculosis socially is as difficult as understanding the body 's internal defences against the disease . |
| 5 | ‘ Coming home is as difficult as going away , ’ Anthony said , aware of having behaved kickedly . |
| 6 | To present these views clearly is exceedingly difficult , and Althusser 's own account of them is far from luminous . |
| 7 | How or why the interchange of decorative elements was carried out is more difficult to understand ; the moulds for casting the brooches may have been made with models constituting separate elements of the decoration of the brooches , or entirely remodelled each time a brooch was made , with variations . |
| 8 | It really is very difficult to convey , sir , the immense difficulties this woman was up against , trying to give her daughter the benefits of a modern education but bound herself by a family subscribing to a quite different system of ‘ mores ’ . |
| 9 | But here they just give you a few examples and expect you to do example sheets , it really is so difficult . |
| 10 | It really is quite difficult , you know , trying to visualize what the thing would like but er |
| 11 | None of the symbolic usages reviewed so far is very difficult to follow . |
| 12 | At times it surely is very difficult for her . |
| 13 | Our experience did not support the view , then widely held , that a serious and extended engagement with the study of language simply is too difficult an undertaking for that band of ability from which the majority of future teachers is drawn . |
| 14 | The combination of town , gown and countryside mean that the result here is more difficult to call because of the much practised ploy of tactical voting . |
| 15 | The point is to define the precise junction between the oesophagus and the stomach , which unfortunately is quite difficult . |
| 16 | The future of the fixture depends on the commitment of the Australians , however , and after two consecutive defeats , the enthusiasm for the World Club Challenge Down Under is more difficult to gauge . |
| 17 | Ah this is a thing which um maybe is quite difficult to do , particularly as we have a culture of stiff upper lips and erm er a culture of of not making a fuss about things and a culture of particularly telling children not to make a fuss about things , a culture of trying to ensure that children ca n't legitimately make a fuss about things . |
| 18 | Some sales managers feel that selling abroad is impossibly difficult , but those who try it feel that it is no more difficult than selling to the home market . |
| 19 | ‘ The path ahead is very difficult and the transition will take years to achieve , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Outside this range cost behaviour in the past is not known and therefore is more difficult to predict . |