Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politically , any alternative would obviously have been extremely difficult to implement while among the economists in the Economic Section the allure of Keynesian economics easily distracted attention from microeconomic problems and the need to understand how economic institutions actually worked . |
| 2 | Quill pens , properly cut and ready to use , are difficult to obtain but worth the trouble if you want to make good ink drawings . |
| 3 | Deviance arises when stimulation and enjoyment are difficult to obtain except through the fetish . |
| 4 | A cheerful , bright , colourful rendezvous , difficult to find but worth the effort . |
| 5 | While this approach might appear to be the treatment of choice for many adolescent self-poisoners , in practice , family therapy is often difficult to establish because of the reluctance of some family members to become involved . |
| 6 | Hot spots appear to be rather irregularly distributed over the Earth 's surface ( Fig. 4.4 ) but the real pattern is difficult to establish because of the problems of identifying specific hot spots and incomplete data in some regions . |
| 7 | English is , of course , not a tone language , and the function of tone is much more difficult to define than in a tone language . |
| 8 | The academic course is extremely difficult to characterise because of the multiplicity of higher education courses taken by future language teachers ; and it is becoming more so , as the predominance of the ‘ traditional ’ literature course is weakened . |
| 9 | In addition , questions of quality in the British context are particularly difficult to answer because of the complexity and range of services provided by the NHS and the wide-ranging but incomplete responsibilities health authorities have for the health of their populations . |
| 10 | Agreement on that process was more difficult to reach than on the technology , according to one of the six . |
| 11 | Former lorry driver Leonard Marder finds it difficult to walk because of an infected leg caused by varicose veins . |
| 12 | All we can say is that logical , easily perceptible solutions are always preferable to enigmatic ones , which may have forms so difficult to perceive that to the listener they seem formless . |
| 13 | These systems worked well but were very difficult to justify because of the high cost of the equipment and low value of the savings ( being mostly space savings from removing filing cabinets ) . |
| 14 | The shelling had increased and it was difficult to sleep because of the noise and , above all , the persistence of the mosquitoes . |
| 15 | She had a restless night and is finding it difficult to sleep because of the memories of the attack . |
| 16 | So , so sort of technically , politically that would have been quite difficult to do because of the manpower involved etcetera |
| 17 | The men would risk being scattered on landing and the pilots would find it difficult to navigate because of the sand being blown about by the wind . |
| 18 | Reactive free radicals are often the active species controlling complex chemical reactions , yet they are difficult to understand because of the problems in studying them . |
| 19 | The cause of this loss is difficult to determine but in the absence of any definite illness or fear or inhibition it may come from purposelessness ; but once there is equilibrium , then enthusiasm will increase as part of the development of the whole being . |
| 20 | The development value of St. Andrews square bus station is extremely difficult to assess because in the last year alone commercial property values in the centre of Edinburgh have literally doubled . |
| 21 | The combination of town , gown and countryside mean that the result here is more difficult to call because of the much practised ploy of tactical voting . |
| 22 | While few are fatal , all are difficult to control because of the presence of fish . |
| 23 | Ruth , looking down from the upper deck , her hand clasped around Anna 's , lifted her clear soprano voice with the rest , though it was difficult to sing because of the tight aching in her throat and the tears which pricked at her eyes . |
| 24 | Novels are much more difficult to place and from a new writer , publishers normally want to see the whole book . |
| 25 | Sometimes rap was difficult to defend because at the time it was all dicks and gold . |
| 26 | It 's been a bit Well it 's it 's been been a bit difficult to test because with the sort of ready the read-me files . |
| 27 | The government 's full majority of over a hundred was difficult to muster because of the absence of Irish MPs , and the effective majority was gradually reduced by constant harassment . |
| 28 | The criterion of land under cultivation is crude , and resists refinement : it is exceedingly difficult to say whether in a particular country in a particular decade or generation the rate of growth was steady ; in some places at some times there may well have been local and temporary declines . |
| 29 | The RSPB uncovers dozens of cases every year of illegal persecution of birds of prey on estates and farms throughout Scotland , but successful prosecutions are difficult to achieve because of the detailed evidence required . |