Example sentences of "difficult [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curzon was more difficult to drive down to the provinces . |
| 2 | It is difficult to write down a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo and still harder to play it from such a notated version . |
| 3 | If you find it difficult to track down suitably small flowers , looking through a book of alpine plants , or visiting a specialist nursery , could provide you with plenty of inspiration . |
| 4 | It should n't be too difficult to track down . |
| 5 | Road names are a prolific form of aviation memorial but are often difficult to track down . |
| 6 | All these problems seem to have made the criminal personality difficult to track down . |
| 7 | Private dealers are neither more nor less scrupulous than dealers who operate from retail outlets , but they may prove more difficult to track down if something goes wrong . |
| 8 | These people can be difficult to track down , but they do tend to specialise in specific subjects . |
| 9 | It is difficult to set down what she was to me . |
| 10 | Also difficult to look down at watch . |
| 11 | Now Michael Portillo is one of the Tory high flyers , for anyone that do n't know who he is , he 's a Tory high flyer who finds it very difficult to look down , very difficult to look down on those but he should look down before he makes a such statements . |
| 12 | Now Michael Portillo is one of the Tory high flyers , for anyone that do n't know who he is , he 's a Tory high flyer who finds it very difficult to look down , very difficult to look down on those but he should look down before he makes a such statements . |
| 13 | After absorbing the first batch of strange-sounding names this is a book which is difficult to put down . |
| 14 | When you become more proficient , you may want to retrim ; at this stage correct it with the stick , or just let it crab , since this will help to reduce problems during the more difficult slowing down phase . |
| 15 | Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration . |
| 16 | In spite of this he was sexually very experienced and attractive to women and found it difficult to turn down their advances . |
| 17 | Articles in industry are not the best preparation for private practice , and unless you have a fairly fixed intention to make your career in industry or commerce you may find it difficult to settle down even for only two or three years in the atmosphere of a company 's legal department . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're going to be very difficult to break down , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Potassium permanganate has the disadvantage of producing solid manganese dioxide during the process of oxidation which can cause blockages and importantly where any of the chlorinated oxidising agents are used care needs to be taken when phenolic contaminants are present as there have been instances of chlorophenols being formed which in turn produce most obnoxious odours sometimes toxic which are extremely difficult to break down . |
| 20 | Jealousy and resentment between the different agencies involved with disabled people are often deeply entrenched and extremely difficult to break down . |
| 21 | This often relied upon their so-called ‘ gut reaction ’ to evaluate children 's work , with the Head of Department freely admitting that he found it difficult to break down and assess different aspects of work . |
| 22 | Some organic chlorine waste products ( dioxins ) are very toxic and difficult to break down and so when they are released into the sea and rivers they tend to build up causing local pollution . |
| 23 | It 's very difficult to break down the stereotypes but if you do that I believe you release a whole new artistic form . |
| 24 | I think it was William Trevor who said the novel was more difficult to get down , the story needed much more polishing . |
| 25 | Finding it difficult to get down to middleweight , I decided to fight as a light-heavy in the University trials . |
| 26 | Problems usually arise because many reef species are capable of more than a little antisocial behaviour — and it is difficult to lay down precise guidelines regarding their compatibility because marine fish , like people , are individuals and do n't necessarily conform to generalised behaviour patterns . |
| 27 | As well be seen , it is notoriously difficult to lay down what the boundaries of natural justice should be . |
| 28 | The courts have to draw a line somewhere when it comes to obviousness although it is difficult to lay down hard and fast rules . |
| 29 | It is difficult to lay down any rule in the matter … |
| 30 | See for example Distillers Co ( Biochemicals ) Ltd v Times Newspapers [ 1975 ] QB 613 and Riddick v Thames Board Mills Ltd [ 1977 ] QB 881. 3 Duration of the duty It is difficult to lay down any general rule for determining the period for which an obligation of confidence will last . |