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

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1 It will be made more difficult where a number of senior individuals are actually involved in making a purchase decision .
2 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 .
3 Cooperation with parents may be made particularly difficult where the professional identifies a conflict of interests between parents and child .
4 For the teacher , is it how well the class has understood ? — but the topic might be difficult or the pupils not very bright .
5 But the ICA responded to this challenge as it has always done with the difficult or the new ; with the sort of calculated risk-taking that the majority of Arts Council-sponsored venues habitually shy away from .
6 Or that the speech is difficult or the , any , any reason that there 's a , a page that 's difficult to read ?
7 Such solid-state software is more difficult than a disc to copy .
8 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 . ’
9 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 .
10 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 ) .
11 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 .
12 ‘ This is going to be more difficult than the first match , but I feel we 're ready for it . ’
13 ‘ 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 .
14 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 .
15 The first may seem more difficult than the second .
16 The search for general information is more difficult than the search for specific information because all directions are relevant .
17 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 .
18 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 ) .
19 Here the problem is less difficult than the estimation of absolute figures , because further kinds of evidence can be employed in the search for an answer .
20 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 .
21 The liver appeared normal but access to the portal vein was difficult so the infrarenal inferior vena cava and aorta were prepared for anastomosis .
22 However , the calculations required to find out whether or not there were any infinities left uncanceled were so long and difficult that no one was prepared to undertake them .
23 ‘ It 's when things are economically difficult that the time is right to mount operations like this ’ he said .
24 A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk .
25 In addition to being the party representing the interests of wealthier people , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative governments of the 1980s argued that the UK 's competitive position was so difficult that the interests of production had to come firmly before redistribution .
26 And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them .
27 In order to turn the National Gallery into a viable concern , he will need to find private sponsorship and patronage , but although a Friends society has been launched , attracting sponsorship will prove extremely difficult until a new tax law designed to encourage personal and corporate donations to culture and sport is introduced .
28 The first years of marriage with dependent infants and according severe earnings restrictions on wives were commonly difficult until the children were old enough to contribute .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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