Example sentences of "[pron] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find her difficult to handle and my soundings are that she is deeply unpopular in Fleet St. She is also said to be extremely bitter about the way she has been treated and evidently stands to make millions from various lawsuits . |
| 2 | we have our ups and downs getting money … its difficult to plan for the future like motor racing when you do n't know how much money is coming in |
| 3 | Its difficult to go beyond normal scepticism and see this huge number not just as a potential but as a reality . ’ |
| 4 | With many skeletons its difficult to know where one bone ends and the next begins . |
| 5 | It is an attractive idea but one difficult to prove ; in any case many of the greatest successes of the bivalves have been in life habits that the brachiopods never adopted burrowing and swimming free for example ) . |
| 6 | The third is the growth of modular-credit schemes reinforced by a shift from student grants to loans , from full-time to part-time study , from young to mature entrants , all of which may have an impact — though one difficult to discern — on the breadth and structure of studies . |
| 7 | She was making herself difficult to kill on humanitarian grounds . |
| 8 | Darren Bicknell is impressed with Benjamin : ‘ His slingy action makes him difficult to pick up . |
| 9 | It made him difficult to fix , especially for eyes awash with brandy , the merest motion of his head breaking subtle waves against his bones , their spume draining back into his skin trailing colours Estabrook had never seen in flesh before . |
| 10 | Law consulted Lansdowne on all matters of importance , kept him informed of the progress of negotiations over Ulster , but found him difficult to convince of the merits of compromise . |
| 11 | A number of journalists try to exploit then novelty of his ‘ death and amazing recovery ’ ; other people who try to help him find him difficult to relate to . |
| 12 | They need flat water to perform well and on no account should they be taken into waves , since , not only are they difficult to manoeuvre well , but they are also liable to snap because of their length . |
| 13 | The young parr which hatch out are dull-coloured , making them difficult to see in their freshwater home . |
| 14 | She dyed some of the rice grains a different colour from the background , these grains were easy to see : she dyed other grains the same colour as the background , which made them difficult to see . |
| 15 | The nature of black holes makes them difficult to detect ; all we may ever have is indirect evidence for their existence . |
| 16 | Do choose bottles that have no indentations inside that might make them difficult to clean thoroughly . |
| 17 | But where they address discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , and class among subjects , they seem to find them difficult to deal with on their own terms . |
| 18 | They see themselves as special , and their search for challenge , novelty and change , their intolerance of errors in the work of others and their aversion to formal controls make them difficult to manage . |
| 19 | It also makes them difficult to control . |
| 20 | A comment was made that the idiosyncrasies of each library made them difficult to use . |
| 21 | Figure 6.3 Many species of birds give alarm calls when they see a dangerous predator The particular bird giving the alarm call runs the risk of attracting the predator to itself , so the alarm calls have acoustic properties which make them difficult to locate . |
| 22 | Many birds give alarm calls to warn of danger , but it is not certain whether the acoustic properties of the alarm calls make them difficult to locate . |
| 23 | At the same time , the three thousand five hundred tanks and three hundred and ninety thousand Iraqi troops have dug into defensive positions which make them difficult to knock out , even with the sophistication of British and United States ground attack bombers . |
| 24 | tiles are generally stuck in place with a contact adhesive , which makes them difficult to remove if you want to change to another floorcovering . |
| 25 | This can make them difficult to remove from detectors with individual ‘ drop in ’ battery compartments . |
| 26 | Despite the great volume of material that existed on the Mughals , I had always found them difficult to visualize . |
| 27 | The fine analysis of the DH sites upstream of the Ea gene has been hampered by the presence of repetitive/unstable sequences making them difficult to subclone , and thereby reduce the upstream regions to an absolute minimum as in the β-Globin LCR studies ( 14 ) . |
| 28 | Most of the many suggested grids bear little relation to each other , and their generalized nature makes them difficult to apply to practical Earth Mysteries . |
| 29 | Some computer programs are marketed in a form that makes them difficult to copy . |
| 30 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |