Example sentences of "more difficult [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 With pipelined architecture , learning is even more difficult since the processor can be executing parts of four lines of code simultaneously .
2 Dropping shoulders in a sideways widening direction makes hyperventilation more difficult since the chest and diaphragm muscles are stretched outwards .
3 Such solid-state software is more difficult than a disc to copy .
4 The version with which I was introduced to my housemaster role in the prison service by an experienced principal officer was ‘ One thing more difficult than a busy Borstal boy is an idle Borstal boy . ’
5 The person doing it does have scientific training , and the MD is more difficult than a PhD in that the supervisor does not take part in the examination .
6 As a keen musician and clarinet player ( name your own musical instrument or say ‘ As one who appreciates music but can not play anything more difficult than a gramophone record , I was very impressed to learn ) I was delighted to learn that Annabelle 's uncle plays for the BBC orchestra ( or pop group , etc. ) , on the violin ( or drums ) .
7 However , when subjects had to decide whether the target sentence followed appropriately from the context , a sentence context should be more difficult than a word context since it presents the subject with a more complex piece of information .
8 ‘ This is going to be more difficult than the first match , but I feel we 're ready for it . ’
9 ‘ Designing Ancient Rome was in fact more difficult than the science fiction adventures , because one was recreating somewhere that actually existed , and you had to be as accurate as you could within the limits of the budget .
10 A second common assumption is that the sciences , generally , are more difficult than the humanities , and that within that , physics is more difficult than chemistry , which is more difficult than biology , and so on .
11 The first may seem more difficult than the second .
12 The search for general information is more difficult than the search for specific information because all directions are relevant .
13 They had all reached that stage following a crisis , which can often be more difficult than the crisis itself , when it is no longer a matter of one superhuman push , but husbanding resources for an indeterminately prolonged period of stress .
14 This task is more difficult than the tagging problem and the results have been , understandably , less impressive ( approximately 50% success rate for producing an acceptable parse ) .
15 First of all they were becoming involved , also de facto , in the process of French decolonization which , like any successful retreat , was more difficult than an advance .
16 The problems are often more difficult but the learning curve is rapid .
17 It was made the more difficult because the Iranians were at one remove from the hostage-takers ; even at best , all they could promise was to lean on Hizbollah and ask for a favour .
18 However , the task of a new nanny was made all the more difficult because the children , bewildered and unhappy , felt that they had come to take the place of their mother .
19 Processing static input is also more difficult because the scanning procedure often introduces additional noise to the input .
20 Estimating cholera-related deaths was made more difficult because the spread of the disease was not given official recognition , reportedly because of fears that it would adversely affect the country 's lucrative shrimp trade .
21 However , in both the arcade and 64 version there are only four levels : these are repeated in order , getting increasingly more difficult as the game progresses .
22 And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack .
23 A policeman 's job is made more difficult if a person physically obtrudes so as to prevent the policeman from arresting a third person , and it has been held that such conduct constitutes obstruction .
24 The issue of allocating resources becomes far more difficult if the treatment under discussion is special , or unusual .
25 However , the evidential task becomes more difficult if the employer opts to make and refine the patented invention himself .
26 It will be made more difficult where a number of senior individuals are actually involved in making a purchase decision .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Running a national business as complicated as a railway network is in all circumstances a daunting task , but the challenge is even more difficult when the government of the day can effectively veto any major decision .
30 Rabbits are easy to remove from a shallow burrow of the type just described but the situation is rather more difficult when the burrow is a deep one , 5 or 6 feet ( 1.5 to 1.8 metres ) below the surface .
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