Example sentences of "much [adv] difficult [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most we can get is convincing parallelisms between the two and the fact that some parallelisms are much more difficult than others and have hitherto not been attempted is no reason for denying that a choreographic genius like Massine has the right to attempt this . |
| 2 | ‘ Education is much more difficult than many industrial and commercial processes to measure in a way that makes comparison possible , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Creating multimedia applications will be so much more difficult than transferring data to CD-ROM , that the number of programs will not escalate in the same way . |
| 4 | In summary , the assessment of pain in babies and animals is so much more difficult than in adult humans that we must face the likelihood that we often get it wrong . |
| 5 | Rounding up the elephants and trying to count them was a hellish job , much more difficult than anyone had foreseen because of the vast area , the confusing vegetation and terrain , and the impossibility of labelling the beasts or keeping track of them once they had been found and counted once . |
| 6 | But it was all so much more difficult than she had ever imagined it would be . |
| 7 | Do not rely on flying beacon to beacon — there are n't many , and the mountainous terrain makes reception much more difficult than you might imagine or than Bottlang would suggest . |
| 8 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 9 | ‘ The climbing was much more difficult than we expected , ’ Venables said . |
| 10 | This stage of training an owl is much more difficult than doing the same stage with a falcon , because with a falcon you just stick a hood over its head and let it get used to all the different noises . |
| 11 | This is much more difficult than it sounds , and requires a great deal of skill and practice ( see Mann 1985 ; Oppenheim 1966 ) . |
| 12 | In the case of the morning papers , it seems that papers such as The Times and the Daily Telegraph are much more difficult than their Swedish counterparts . |
| 13 | This disappointing result indicates that control over one 's own dreams is very much more difficult than Garfield and Faraday have suggested . |
| 14 | Of course , it may be the case that monitoring of costs compared to an ideal is in practice very much more difficult than monitoring prices relating to costs . |
| 15 | This is much more difficult than I thought it would be . |
| 16 | Schoolteachers were not expected to engage in research , and by the 1870s this was anyway much more difficult than it had been in 1800 : there was more to master first , and more equipment was needed . |
| 17 | Surprising though it may seem , fieldwork in a cultural context of which you already have intimate first-hand experience seems to be much more difficult than fieldwork which is approached from the naive viewpoint of a total stranger . |
| 18 | Everything was er so much more difficult than it , than it is today and er things were not sort of disposed of like they are now . |
| 19 | Handwriting recognition is much more difficult than OCR due to the variety of handwriting styles between writers . |
| 20 | This is what makes the job of the share analyst much more difficult than that of the bond analyst , because it makes a fair comparison between two firms extremely difficult . |
| 21 | Britain had 50,000 troops and 10,000 horses in the Crimea , France 200,000 and 34,000 , but penetrating the interior of the Russian Empire would prove much more difficult than winning victories in the Crimean peninsula . |
| 22 | Now , I think staying stopped is much more , not much more difficult but just does n't receive the attention that it deserves |
| 23 | This will be much more difficult where an industry is geographically diffused , or where the supplier ( say , the steel industry ) faces a very wide range of market demands . |
| 24 | Whereas an opponent may be able to cope with a single technique , it is much more difficult when the attack is continuous , incorporating both linear and circular blows delivered to different , often widely separated targets . |
| 25 | How much more difficult when that old person is of a different race or culture from one 's own , has a lifetime of tradition and experience of which we know nothing and has been subjected to hostile experiences , whether the horror of the Holocaust or consistent denigration by virtue of skin colour ? |
| 26 | Such a procedure is much more difficult when applied to a whole system of taboos in the way Freud does in Totem and Taboo . |
| 27 | If the responses of a set of representative elements are statistically independent of each other , it becomes relatively easy to form reliable associations with combinations of them , whereas this is much more difficult when the responses show strong correlations . |
| 28 | The recognition of cursive script is much more difficult because several characters can be written with a single stroke . |
| 29 | A similar situation obtained in the second example which unsurprisingly proved much more difficult because it is unfamiliar and the numbers are more complex . |
| 30 | Opportunity for these suspects was difficult to determine — so much more difficult because this was not an official investigation , and he was not a regular investigator . |