Example sentences of "[conj] [am/are] [adv] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SATURATED hydrocarbons ( alkanes ) such as methane and ethane contain the strongest known carbon-hydrogen bonds ; bonds that are notoriously difficult to break in a controlled way . |
| 2 | There are French qualities — of irony , wit , cerebral play — that are remarkably difficult to get across , even in a good translation . |
| 3 | There is no point in explaining behaviour patterns in animals that are extremely difficult to observe . |
| 4 | More fundamentally , this preoccupation with numerical aspects may draw attention away from important issues that are more difficult to quantify . |
| 5 | ‘ But there are some problems that are more difficult to solve than others , are n't there ? ’ he insisted . |
| 6 | These take a variety of forms and are thus difficult to summarize ; basically statistical properties are measured whilst some condition is fulfilled , such as the velocity being above some level , the velocity varying particularly rapidly , or different velocity components being related so as to make a large contribution to the Reynolds stress . |
| 7 | These cause repeated damage to the forest , including saplings of desirable species , and lead to the problem of genetic erosion of the crop , and are also difficult to administer . |
| 8 | Because of this , they do n't find it easy to make friends and are very difficult to get on with . |
| 9 | When words are printed in upper-case letters alone they have reduced shape information , and are more difficult to recognise than those printed in lower-case . |
| 10 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 11 | These figures include only the spontaneous abortions that occur late in the first trimester , so that an even higher proportion of conceptuses are probably at risk but die soon after the egg is implanted and are therefore difficult to detect . |
| 12 | Road names are a prolific form of aviation memorial but are often difficult to track down . |
| 13 | African Fish Eagles are not an endangered species at the moment but are very difficult to breed in captivity , so it 's quite an achievement for the birds of prey centre . |