The phrase "apparently difficult to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that seems to be challenging or hard to accomplish based on observations or evidence.
Example: "The task was apparently difficult to complete within the given timeframe, as many team members struggled with it."
Alternatives: "seemingly hard to" or "reportedly challenging to".
And when a business has that power, it is apparently difficult to resist.
For Stine, who had been hired and fired by another rising American, Mardy Fish, it was apparently difficult to accept.
Bennett, a British immigrant, was apparently difficult to work for and was always wary of sharing design and glaze secrets with colleagues.
We still don't know exactly what the trades were, other than that they were complicated, very large and apparently difficult to unwind.
It is not the first time architects have fallen foul of the capacity of curved, reflective surfaces to focus the sun's rays into a beam concentrated enough to start a fire, a phenomenon that is apparently difficult to model, but whose effects are well enough understood to have been exploited – legend has it – by the ancient Greek inventor Archimedes.
We used the hybrid method of laparoscopic and TaTME approaches for better surgical view because it was apparently difficult to achieve negative surgical margins due to the large tumor located within a narrow pelvic space (Fig. 4).
Clinically, ambulatory BP monitoring is valuable for confirming suspected white-coat hypertension or evaluating white-coat effect in patients with apparently difficult-to-control hypertension, for detecting masked hypertension, and for gaining a better estimate of BP control among treated patients [ 2- 4].
Called in by the dean to discuss his apparently difficult social adjustment to the school, Marcus gives vent to a wide range of disgruntlements, including one of large scope: he explains that he didn't identify himself as Jewish on his application form because he's an atheist, and he delivers a disquisition about Bertrand Russell's essay "Why I Am Not a Christian" to explain his position.
Its gorgeous neo-Romantic set, by Eugene Berman, was apparently too difficult to take on tour.
Despite this, it is apparently still difficult to have an honest discussion over why it happens.
