Example sentences of "difficult [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nerves were a problem he always found difficult to combat and the full glare of the spotlight made walking and singing a tall order that day . |
| 2 | On the other hand , it may be difficult to implement and it may also create human problems . |
| 3 | They did not deny that the fundamental cure of the trade cycle was to stabilise demand , but they felt that the remedies suggested by the economists would be difficult to implement and would have undesirable side effects . |
| 4 | Large-scale demonstrations were difficult to sustain and there was an increasing risk of confrontation with the authorities . |
| 5 | The clinical distinction between the biotic and cultural levels is difficult to sustain and urgent attention ( of the kind being developed by Harré et al. ) needs to be given to the merging of these two lines of thought . |
| 6 | That sort of relationship would be very difficult to sustain or to generalize beyond one or two individuals . |
| 7 | Problems are sometimes difficult to spot and are certainly unlikely to be highlighted by the vendor or his solicitor . |
| 8 | The language was comprehensible only by the greatest concentration ; the issues mind-boggling ; the logic of past actions difficult to recollect and harder still to articulate . |
| 9 | If there is infestation of the eyelashes or eyebrows , there may be a marked blepharitis , inflammation around the eye , which can be difficult to diagnose and is resistant to treatment until the correct diagnosis is made . |
| 10 | The cause may be difficult to diagnose and costly to correct , and internal decorations are easily spoilt . |
| 11 | Certain kinds of illness and illness-proneness are experienced : people are more likely to catch a cold or flu , for example , and be less able to shake it off ; they feel generally run down and may suffer from mysterious but more debilitating viruses , such as ME or glandular fever , that are difficult to diagnose and take a long time to clear up . |
| 12 | Sleep patterns m the first three months of life are difficult to categorize and , compared to the remarkable uniformity of adult sleep , show a high degree of idiosyncrasy . |
| 13 | Of course actual authors are dialectically difficult to classify and my examples are fairly arbitrarily drawn , the diagram being illustrative rather than an exercise in exegesis . |
| 14 | These assessments are often difficult to perform and involve complicated and dificult analyses . |
| 15 | Under the existing law , these United Kingdom citizens can vote in British and EC parliamentary elections only through a complicated registration procedure , which allows voting only by proxy ( difficult to arrange and flouting the whole principle of a secret ballot ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This will be difficult to arrange and will certainly not be efficient , but personally I am not sorry at the turn events have taken . |
| 18 | Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak . |
| 19 | Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak |
| 20 | Early herbicide treatments provide the best control , because older grass weed seedlings are more difficult to kill and also compromise yield . |
| 21 | The net yield from the Crown lands is difficult to estimate but probably came to about £6,750 , with the Duchy of Lancaster contributing another £2,500 . |
| 22 | The dose equivalence over 24 hours is more difficult to estimate but since salmeterol has a longer duration of action salmeterol 50 µg twice daily may be equivalent to salbutamol 500 µg four to six hourly . |
| 23 | This would require a huge corpus , would be extremely difficult to estimate and would require too much storage . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , both circumstances particularly highlighted skills which were difficult to acquire or monitor and could hardly act as evidence on the nature of thought . |
| 25 | Analysts said the statement was phrased in a way that made it difficult to confirm or refute . |
| 26 | Evidence on this subject is extremely difficult to gather and interpret . |
| 27 | Careful induction is not difficult to plan but produces some clear benefits . |
| 28 | However , many knitters find that it is still difficult to plan and knit garments . |
| 29 | For some teachers not only was this difficult to plan and implement as an organizational strategy per se , but the increased demands imposed on them by the strategy meant that their opportunities for systematic and sustained monitoring of children 's progress were further reduced , while at the same time the increased levels of movement and disturbance in the classroom might adversely affect children 's concentration and time on task . |
| 30 | The more entrenched feeding problems can be very difficult to treat and take a long time to show improvement . |