Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: No Member present at the meeting found this date inconvenient.

Modifies a noun

• truth: We are often seen as people who run from inconvenient truths.

• fact: Lamont notes that both sides have the habit of ignoring inconvenient facts.

• moment: Ace Rimmer's on-board computer has a tendency to fall in love at inconvenient moments.

• location: From the offset traffic on the line was light, due in part to the inconvenient locations of stations.

• distance: We both love watching films, but the cinema is a slightly inconvenient distance away so apathy often overwhelms any film-watching urges.

• hour: Of course programs stop working at the most inconvenient hour of the day - hardware failures are becoming rare.

Modifying Another Word

• terribly: It's just that, at the moment, it's terribly inconvenient.

• however: The terms of license agreements must be observed, however inconvenient.

• extremely: Some extremely inconvenient circumstances have brought you into the presence of a man who has cut himself off from humanity.

• rather: Sometimes, our initial impression is that having to include time for Mass on a Sunday is rather inconvenient.

• somewhat: But the distance was considerable; the going and coming were somewhat inconvenient for the First Minister of the Crown.

• highly: Although highly inconvenient for patients, such delays did not usually last more than a few hours.

Infinitive complement

• use: Secondly, making the canals harder and more inconvenient to use.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Transportation awaited the poor, or those whose right to land proved inconvenient to the powerful.

• seem: But the Lord Chancellor says Mr Cameron is trying to re-write human rights because " they seem inconvenient " .

• become: But when midweek became inconvenient it was switched to Saturdays.

• find: The effort only made the creature tremble and jump, which I found inconvenient.

Preposition: for

• user: Launching a service which does not work may be more inconvenient for users than delaying service introduction to get the system right.

• patient: They are also arguing that the central site will be inconvenient for patients.