Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [is] [art] " in BNC.

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1 What will be more difficult to sustain is the expectation that labour should show total dedication to work now that lifetime employment is becoming ever more the exception .
2 I suppose the feature on this guitar that would be most difficult to miss is the distinctive string anchorage .
3 What is difficult to monitor is the extent to which ‘ language work ’ for primary teachers is provision of literacy teaching skills that are required for all primary teachers , analogous to the methods work of specialist language teachers .
4 Another dog which can prove difficult to train is the Chow Chow .
5 The fact that these emotions exist in industrial and other enterprises and that the ego finds ways of defending against bad experiences is not at issue ; what is more difficult to establish is the complex way in which these feelings are dealt with .
6 Even more difficult to establish is the relative economic importance of individual small towns in the regional and urban hierarchy to what extent was a small town or village dependent on its major neighbours , and how much did the larger towns and cities rely on supplies from the former ?
7 One of the problems that will be encountered is that we may find words which are obviously complex but which , when we divide them into stem + affix , turn out to have a stem that it is difficult to imagine is an English word .
8 The most interesting library and the most difficult to understand is the ROBERT BLAIR MEMORIAL library in Portnahaven .
9 For instance , one of the facts that the Bishop finds it difficult to understand is the white colour of polar bears .
10 Now um I suppose in that context um one of the things that makes this perhaps rather difficult to understand is the way in which y'know kind of when you look at children playing , when you talk to children , they 'll often express a good deal of curiosity about sexuality um both to each-other and to adults .
11 More difficult to determine is the extent to which aid has freed resources for consumption , and so done little to increase investment levels in the manner envisaged by Rostow or Chenery .
12 More difficult to assess is the toxic reaction of an odour , that is an effect ‘ which may influence survival or which produces unfavourable changes in the gross and microscopic appearance of organs or tissues or in the entire organism ’ .
13 Even more difficult to assess is the extent to which and in what ways religion might be important to people .
14 More difficult to judge is the impact of productivity growth on the size of the labour force .
15 Even more difficult to explain is the occurrence of banding on the inside of the shell ( Fig. 15 ) .
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