Example sentences of "[adv] difficult [to-vb] [conj] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the subjects found these estimates extremely difficult to make and the differences between subjects ’ estimates was enormous . |
| 2 | The completeness of the 1989–90 material is more difficult to evaluate because the drugs in this period were available over the counter . |
| 3 | Market purchases by the bidder and persons connected with it may therefore not be advisable and the 75 per cent threshold becomes more difficult to achieve if the promoters already hold significant numbers of shares . |
| 4 | Today , rambutans ( Nephelium lappaceum , Sapindaceae ) are distributed this way , growing up around deserted encampments of forest people in the Malay Peninsula , and several other fruits gathered there can only be swallowed as the flesh is either difficult to remove or the seeds are too fiddly to extract ( as in blackberries , blackcurrants and tomatoes in modern society sewage farms raise good tomato plants ) : for example the mata-kuching ( Dimocarpus longan ) and the rambai ( Baccaurea motleyana , Euphorbiaceae ) . |
| 5 | These unusual circumstances , and cases of corrupt diversion of corporate assets aside , however , it will in general be very difficult to demonstrate that the directors did not believe that what they were doing would maximise profits , because of the often insuperable problem of distinguishing between means and ends that this entails . |
| 6 | An intuition that this is indeed so may be very difficult to substantiate if the attributions made by members of the dominant society are very loud and very visible , and those of the members of the microsociety hard to come by , perhaps because those members are not easy to contact . |