burdensome

Preposition: for

• cshcn: Plan will exclude is even greater burdensome for cshcn.
• patient: We are very conscious of the fact that sometimes the provision of treatment or nutrition can be over- burdensome for the patient.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: True, he did refer to the high cost of fuel which make transport costs particularly burdensome.
• find: For example, I may decide not to go to Bali both because I dislike Bali and because I find the journey burdensome.

Modifies a noun

• bureaucracy: The 1977 Decree reveals the State's hegemonic project to co-opt traditional rule into an already burdensome bureaucracy.
• regulation: They promised not to impose burdensome regulations on business.
• task: Any sensible person would think that erecting a 12ft tree is not a particularly burdensome task.
• requirement: There are burdensome requirements for those who are dealers in second-hand goods.
• procedure: Overly bureaucratic and burdensome trade procedures easily absorb the benefits from low tariffs in poor and rich countries alike.
• rule: Tax, VAT, payroll and health and safety legislation were cited among the most burdensome rules.

Modifying Another Word

• unduly: Indeed these programs were cited by some as being unduly burdensome and being the cause of slow wage growth.
• administratively: This would be the least administratively burdensome approach - except, of course, for no relief at all.
• unnecessarily: They have, however, found the 1994 requirement unnecessarily burdensome.
• overly: She argued that even more would be overly burdensome.
• excessively: However, this seems excessively burdensome for smaller collections.
• too: If your partner becomes too burdensome, mention my work and release yourself from guilt.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: This will result in a review that may prove more burdensome to the subject providers.
• seem: He also felt that the Star Chamber template had not given the whole picture thus making the exercise seem less burdensome.
• become: The whole business had become burdensome to ordinary people.
• find: Whichever the explanation, either was certain to expose Mr Revie to more of the criticism he has apparently found so burdensome.