Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [pron] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the three thousand five hundred tanks and three hundred and ninety thousand Iraqi troops have dug into defensive positions which make them difficult to knock out , even with the sophistication of British and United States ground attack bombers . |
| 2 | Figure 6.3 Many species of birds give alarm calls when they see a dangerous predator The particular bird giving the alarm call runs the risk of attracting the predator to itself , so the alarm calls have acoustic properties which make them difficult to locate . |
| 3 | First , those items which make it difficult to recognise specific abilities in a child will be of less value than those which provide descriptions that can easily be applied . |
| 4 | ‘ There are opportunities in Europe , but there are differences in culture and differences in operating costs which make it difficult to enter other European markets . |
| 5 | The analysis of sin that occupies much of the second half of the book and which , perhaps fittingly from a literary point of view , distorts the balanced analytic framework of the role and nature of contemplative life in the first half , is frozen in a definitive icon in which the body of death is horriby manifested with a head of pride , back of covetousness ( worldly things that the anchoress turns away from ) , a heart of envy , arms of anger , a belly of greed , genitals of lechery and feet of despairing sloth which find it difficult to stir themselves to good works ( prayer and meditation for the anchoress ) ( 85.355a — 6a. – 154 – 5 ) . |