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

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1 like those of the South American porcupines , but they are nevertheless difficult to remove and this particular lion faces a painful future .
2 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 .
3 They are very difficult to protect and are at high risk of terrorist attack when off-duty , ’ added the minister .
4 The pyocyanases and the penicillia did not appear to harm patients , but they were too difficult to extract and too unstable to be useful .
5 Says Melville , ‘ We learned that it 's very difficult to live and work together . ’
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
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 The problem for many people today is not that it is too difficult to believe but that it is too easy .
11 However , many knitters find that it is still difficult to plan and knit garments .
12 We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved .
13 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 . ’
14 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 .
15 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 .
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