Example sentences of "[pron] more difficult [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I felt he maintained a distance and because of that I found him more difficult to approach than Dalglish if there was anything I needed to discuss .
2 ‘ In a wide position like that , there is n't anyone more difficult to beat than Worthington , ’ said Wilkinson .
3 Second , in courses which are organised around the expectation that most students are young and well qualified in a traditional sense , older students who have entered through different routes may find it more difficult to succeed than in courses where there is more support , both at an institutional level and from other students with similar backgrounds and experiences .
4 The steep hillsides made it more difficult to hide and transport cattle , and after the establishment of coffee plantations and gardens in the 1840s the crime must have become more difficult to carry out profitably .
5 The excessive use of embargoes devalues the practice and makes it more difficult to ensure that the embargo is kept when it is really important .
6 Here again , though , this is not by itself to say that where a co-operative can get properly started in a capital intensive business , it would find it more difficult to compete than would a conventionally organised firm .
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