Example sentences of "is more difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 2 | Honest crap you can flush down the lavatory , he wrote , but dishonest crap , of the kind produced by so-called artists , is more difficult to dispose of . |
| 3 | Perhaps their essence is more difficult to grasp because they are perceived by customers in entirely different roles , depending on the customer — for example , as friend , wine expert or simple emissary of the kitchen . |
| 4 | Repairing cut-out lath-and-plaster is more difficult , but is generally best done with a small piece of plasterboard . |
| 5 | Perhaps still smarting from his lowly position and lack of respect in Yenan 30 years before , he publicly condemned Deng as arrogant and dangerously ambitious : ‘ To discuss with Deng Xiaoping as equals is more difficult than to put a ladder against heaven . ’ |
| 6 | The future of the fixture depends on the commitment of the Australians , however , and after two consecutive defeats , the enthusiasm for the World Club Challenge Down Under is more difficult to gauge . |
| 7 | But permanent illness is more difficult than injury . |
| 8 | The problem of an influential tabloid press heavily biased towards one particular party is more difficult . |
| 9 | However it is more difficult getting an opinion about an act 's music over the phone . |
| 10 | The other main type of sleep — slow wave sleep — is also called ‘ deep sleep ’ because it is more difficult to raise us from . |
| 11 | Because the body clock tends to ‘ run slow ’ , advancing it is more difficult and this explains why it takes longer to adapt ( see Table 11.3 ) . |
| 12 | Because the source is less easy to trace it is more difficult to judge the legitimacy of the rumour . |
| 13 | Only now it is more difficult to spot because they have taken away the visitors ' platform and the view through the most celebrated new gap in the Berlin Wall is often obscured by the steady stream of tramping East Berliners and their Trabant cars . |
| 14 | But even in those circumstances the new rules hopefully should make sure that it is more difficult for managements to buy companies on the cheap from under the noses of their shareholders . |
| 15 | Split peas are either yellow or green ; the green variety is more difficult to find but has a fuller flavour than the yellow and is therefore worth looking out for . |
| 16 | But identification is more difficult when relatively few portraits in the round have survived . |
| 17 | It is more difficult for man to look up than to look down . |
| 18 | The second point is more difficult , for how often in the social sciences do we have ‘ complete knowledge ’ of a cause/effect relationship ? |
| 19 | The latter version may be more logically correct , but it jars on the ears , and is more difficult to say . |
| 20 | However , others feel that , because of the speed of change and because of goal conflict between the professionals involved , educational planning is more difficult and has a political rather than rational dimension . |
| 21 | Listening to your enemies is more difficult . |
| 22 | Through clientelism , the allegiance of the peasant is to his patron rather than to other peasants , so that it is more difficult for solidarity between those in the peasant class to develop . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , it is more difficult to trace the Chauncys than the Blencowes , not least because they were less accomplished people . |
| 24 | Such a government has authority over just about everyone in certain matters ( those where individuals have reason to pursue goals requiring social cooperation which is more difficult to achieve in other ways ) and various degrees of more extensive authority in varying measure over different people , either in virtue of other factors covered by the normal justification thesis or through voluntary submission by consent or respect . |
| 25 | Systems analysis has important advantages in that it can handle both complex biophysical relationships ( which is more difficult in a rigid mathematical programming approach ) and can include the effects of policy instruments and other hitherto exogenous social and economic variables . |
| 26 | A decade passed before there was any general awareness that it is more difficult to stop taking benzodiazepines than to start , and that weaning dependent patients from their drugs could be a painful process . |
| 27 | Where a product is to be marketed in export markets which have high temperatures and/or high humidities , or both , prediction of shelf-life is more difficult . |
| 28 | The evaluation and assessment of test data on completely new products or packs and the problem of deciding whether they are sufficiently stable or whether they adequately protect the product under market conditions is more difficult . |
| 29 | The final symbolic cue used to make sense of the 1980–1 protests is more difficult to categorize , but its basic meaning can be captured by the term ‘ political marginality ’ . |
| 30 | The former is capable of being reasonably assessed over the course of the interview(s) ; the latter is more difficult to deal with . |