The phrase "and difficult to be" is not correct and sounds awkward in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is challenging to become or to be in a certain state, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "The task was overwhelming, and difficult to be completed on time."
Alternatives: "and hard to achieve" or "and challenging to become".
It's pretty obvious that it may be doable to be small, and difficult to be medium-sized, where the big players will squeeze the medium player out.
His last style has rare beauties in it but is too complex and difficult to be ingratiating, which is probably why the work is less well known.
I wanted her to be both brave and difficult, to be someone fiercely loyal to her children when there was a crisis, but oddly nonchalant in the ordinary course of events.
Those stories are much harder to share: like most people, I'd find it much more painful and difficult to be open about failures in those areas of my life that I don't consider a triumph than those that I do.
I would be happy to go through this evidence with you and Lucy Adams if you want; you might then see why it is so hurtful and difficult to be in our position".
"The students actually don't really want their teachers to tell them about it and the teachers find it embarrassing and difficult to be talking about sex one minute and French verbs the next.
But her image in that book is considerably less heroic, with some other figures, like a French photographer who was with her when she was kidnapped, complaining that she was "very arrogant and difficult to be around".
Interviews with a dozen people involved with food start-ups said the city's rules make it expensive and difficult to be entrepreneurial — hence many try to avoid the city's permitting system entirely.
Such small fields are scattered in pattern and difficult to be detected by Landsat TM.
The cracks were all of modest opening and difficult to be observed.
As a result, the experimental solution is time consuming and difficult to be conducted.
