Example sentences of "[adv] difficult [verb] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 graces could be an embarrassment , for he had no polite small-talk and did not pretend to any ; his visits to Windsor were an ordeal for guest and hosts alike , to him because he disliked formality and to his hosts because he was so difficult to entertain and because he did not mince words with the King .
2 This was partly because it proved so difficult to crush or even to assess the strength of the ‘ People 's Will ’ .
3 Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce .
4 That is why his conduct with regard to Heather was so difficult to understand and why , in the end , I concluded that he was in the grip of an obsession he was powerless to resist . ’
5 Britain grinds out almost five million tonnes of hazardous waste each year , of which about 63,000 tonnes are so difficult to store or treat that they are burnt at high temperatures here in Gwent or at one of three other centres : Ellesmere Port ; Fawley , near Southampton ; and the unfortunately named Killamarsh , near Sheffield .
6 When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting .
7 Such a pond would be extremely difficult to filter and the reason why your fish did well in it was undoubtably down to low stocking levels and a balanced plant population .
8 The system is , however , extremely difficult to negotiate and even the most competent citizen would find the task of tracking down his or her welfare benefit entitlements a daunting one .
9 It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate .
10 2.30:LEADING American hurdler Lonesome Glory is extremely difficult to assess but he is unlikely to appreciate these testing conditions .
11 This would require a huge corpus , would be extremely difficult to estimate and would require too much storage .
12 Indeed the two values are often extremely difficult to disentangle and there is a good reason for this ; for any given adjective , in many or most actual situations where the one interpretation may be applied correctly , the other will apply also ; in addition , for many adjectives , even in principle , the semantic distinction may be vanishingly small .
13 Evidence on this subject is extremely difficult to gather and interpret .
14 Unfortunately , the subjects found these estimates extremely difficult to make and the differences between subjects ’ estimates was enormous .
15 Once driven home , these savage spines are extremely difficult to dislodge and may continue to torment the would-be killer for days to come , sometimes leading to festering wounds that can kill .
16 The maddening thing is that once it is realized that the environment is a mutually reactive system , it becomes extremely difficult to isolate and discuss specialized points in a simple way without at the same time being tempted to discuss every interaction and interrelationship which exists in the system .
17 But in practice , the growth rate in earnings is extremely difficult to determine and has to be forecast .
18 Second , the whole analysis is based on the mistaken assumption that the poet and the reader 's text worlds are identical , an assumption which is not only difficult to prove but also in contrast with the core ideas of the collection .
19 Much of the above advice is based on the ‘ best available ’ knowledge principle and is thus difficult to give and actual authority for , however , we do make every effort to remain as up-to-date as possible .
20 like those of the South American porcupines , but they are nevertheless difficult to remove and this particular lion faces a painful future .
21 An informal producer is always difficult to define but it is used here to describe an owner or an employee of a small-scale enterprise comprising less than ten people , operating from an impermanent site , under an ill-defined registration and tax scheme .
22 The essential driving force is always difficult to define but the one thing that has struck me about is his intolerance of injustice wherever it presents itself .
23 However , many knitters find that it is still difficult to plan and knit garments .
24 The nature of matters which would be characterised as collateral or preliminary was still difficult to determine and it was admitted that there could be errors of law within jurisdiction which , if they appeared on the face of the record , would be quashed .
25 Second , quality improvement is far more difficult to define and measure in health than it is in education .
26 If the domain of a criterion statement is broad the representativeness of assessment tasks is more difficult to arrange and criterion performance may thereby be ambivalent .
27 If there has been a prolonged spell of dry weather , leaks and damp are more difficult to detect and you should be doubly suspicious of stains , water marks and white crystals if you see them .
28 It is , however , much more difficult to treat and cure , not least because one of its clinical manifestations , which is part and parcel of the disease , is a firm wish not to be cured , or at least not to be cured unless and until the sufferer wishes to cure herself .
29 In the case of the hierarchical data mapping , the one-to-many relationship types can be represented as parent-child relationships but many-to-many relationships are more difficult to represent and lead to duplication .
30 Similarly , roundhouse kicks to the face may land with a slightly heavier impact because they are inherently more difficult to control and yet are to be encouraged .
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