Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in the two things that can happen in conversation to give it To make it stop running smoothly are overlapping and interruption and like some of them are quite difficult to tell apart but usually it 's If you 're transcribing stuff it 's fairly obvious . |
| 2 | I was bloody difficult because I came with my own agenda and I was n't going to have a whitewash . |
| 3 | She 's very difficult to work for on her creative days ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She is often difficult . |
| 5 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 6 | She got a better deal , to be fair , out of the Common Market , because she was so difficult . |
| 7 | Dexter wondered whether the superintendent believed Lancaster 's story : she was so difficult to read . |
| 8 | At home she was very difficult to manage being given to severe tantrums involving screaming , followed by breath holding , throwing objects , overturning furniture , vomiting deliberately and lashing out at anyone within reach . |
| 9 | She was very difficult to reason with . |
| 10 | But the gipsies , the whistle , the band-they are more difficult to understand , but I think I have an answer . ’ |
| 11 | But once on the move they are devilishly difficult to stop , as is Villa 's right winger , Daley . |
| 12 | like those of the South American porcupines , but they are nevertheless difficult to remove and this particular lion faces a painful future . |
| 13 | However , whilst its cramped and dark interiors are highly evocative of past centuries , they are also difficult to manage and flout modern fire safety regulations . |
| 14 | They are also difficult to update . |
| 15 | This is n't really a satisfactory method , as the slabs ca n't be vibrated and , because of their size , they are also difficult to lay on a full bed of level sand . |
| 16 | I think he 's got a whole metaphor going in this poem between wild animals and things that exist freely and are difficult to find and poems which are things that exist and have their own life but they are also difficult to find . |
| 17 | Judicious balances between all the multifarious factors are needed , but they are notoriously difficult to strike , and are even more so in international collaborative projects . |
| 18 | There are five species of this large piratical sea-bird , and they are notoriously difficult to separate , but the warden told us this was a roosting place ( they do not breed in the Seychelles ) for mainly immature greater and lesser frigate birds , probably from the huge breeding colonies on Aldabra . |
| 19 | The analyst is then forced on the defensive , explaining why new features can not be included because they are technically difficult or prohibitively expensive . |
| 20 | It is simply because most diets involve immense change in eating habits and usually some degree of hunger ; they are too difficult for most people to maintain long enough to become slim . |
| 21 | Times have changed , but they are still difficult . |
| 22 | I 'm keen on the scabious family and I 'm trying to grow old wallflowers , but they are very difficult and susceptible to virus . |
| 23 | In fact , as they are very difficult to sex — males have slightly longer finnage and slightly larger humping of the forehead — it is best to buy half a dozen young ones and let them pair naturally , usually when they get to 5–6″ , but sometimes as early as 4″ . |
| 24 | They are very difficult to destroy although the enemy may try to attack them with other engines of war , large monsters or magic for example . |
| 25 | It is possible to use concrete but , if there is any settlement in the ground and cracks appear , they are very difficult to repair . |
| 26 | We have been trying to breed Red Pandas for some time but they are very difficult . |
| 27 | ‘ They are very difficult to protect and are at high risk of terrorist attack when off-duty , ’ added the minister . |
| 28 | They are so difficult to diagnose . |
| 29 | Even where there are national forest-management policies they are often difficult to enforce , especially where other interests , notably the potential of forest products to earn foreign currency , are involved . |
| 30 | The reporters are useful contacts but they are often difficult to reach . |