Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] difficult [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such old people customarily exhibit behaviour which is extraordinarily difficult to tolerate and which raises a high level of anxiety . |
| 2 | It is these people who are most difficult to place and who are most likely to be returned to institutions ( Sutter et al. , 1980 ; Intagliata and Willer , 1982 ; Vitello et al. , 1983 ) , where they are likely to remain unpopular patients who are avoided by staff ( Grant and Moores , 1977 ; Raynes , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | like those of the South American porcupines , but they are nevertheless difficult to remove and this particular lion faces a painful future . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ They are very difficult to protect and are at high risk of terrorist attack when off-duty , ’ added the minister . |
| 6 | The pyocyanases and the penicillia did not appear to harm patients , but they were too difficult to extract and too unstable to be useful . |
| 7 | Says Melville , ‘ We learned that it 's very difficult to live and work together . ’ |
| 8 | Many people believe they know what is meant by orientalism , yet it is notoriously difficult to comprehend and to write about the whole of this protean subject . |
| 9 | However , it is notoriously difficult to capture and exhibit any legal theorist who unequivocally espouses formalism , that is who insists that the application of the general principles and rules of law to particular cases is a matter of deductive reasoning and nothing else . |
| 10 | I find this poem not as effective as ‘ Futility ’ in getting its message across as there does not seem to be much emotion in it and it is very difficult to understand and that takes away much of the effect . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The problem for many people today is not that it is too difficult to believe but that it is too easy . |
| 13 | However , many knitters find that it is still difficult to plan and knit garments . |
| 14 | We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved . |
| 15 | Until recently , the division used Lotus 1-2-3 to handle its consolidation : ‘ It was extremely flexible and reasonably quick , but it was very difficult to maintain and highly reliant on one person . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the plastics in the waste collected by local authorities tend to be dirtier and of mixed types , and the recycled product made from them is more difficult to control and guarantee , especially for applications that will be in contact with food . |
| 18 | The members themselves are more difficult to assess and describe . |