Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] and be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems are sometimes difficult to spot and are certainly unlikely to be highlighted by the vendor or his solicitor . |
| 2 | Characteristically , the data used may be more difficult to obtain and are usually more spatially aggregated ; modelling software which permits feedback loops is essential ; |
| 3 | In practice , however , students are not enthused by participative bureaucracy so that volunteers are difficult to find and are probably not representative . |
| 4 | The feeling of comfort is basic to a sense of well-being , but it is difficult to define and is often most notable in its absence . |
| 5 | Staff time taken with such enquiries is difficult to evaluate and is probably underestimated in many Job Descriptions in Annual Staff Reports . |
| 6 | Secondly , several explanatory variables were difficult to measure and were only measured at one point in time . |
| 7 | As Gunn states , this situation is difficult to achieve and is probably undesirable . |
| 8 | In reality they are difficult to cut and are very sophisticated , inspired by Balenciaga , Norell , Mainbocher and early Givenchy . |
| 9 | Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients . |