onerous

Preposition: in

• term: They served the state and they owed their public duty to it, and this was onerous in terms of expenditure.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: How can I make coursework less onerous for my candidates?
• find: He found the job onerous and so joining the Army and the Worcestershire Regiment as an Infantryman at age 17.

Modifies a noun

• rota: Larger practices with a less onerous duty rota might be less inclined to help smaller practices and thereby make their lives easier.
• burden: A rate of 9d in the pound would be necessary, " a terribly onerous burden " .
• task: I have set myself a much more onerous task.
• obligation: Why did you involve yourself in such onerous obligations?
• covenant: Is the proposed property subject to any onerous covenants / agreements i.e. section 106 agreements?
• regime: They are subject to a less onerous regulatory regime.

Modifying Another Word

• unduly: What approach could be taken here to ensure that consumers are not misled, without being unduly onerous for producers?
• excessively: These systems came to be viewed as excessively onerous for departments and institutions.
• overly: Teaching should remain an important aspect of the Fellowship while not being overly onerous.
• too: The research involved might not be too onerous either.
• particularly: Its size does not appear particularly onerous at first sight.
• increasingly: We commute to work further - the average trip is 45 minutes, to a workplace where we submit to increasingly onerous hours.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Their strategic, social, economic, and political costs would prove onerous.
• seem: These responsibilities seem onerous for an unpaid Office Holder to bear.
• become: In addition, the security aspects of operating a visitors gallery had become too onerous.
• make: The original legislation was revised by the Finance Act 1999, and the sanctions made more onerous.
• consider: The obligation ( embodied within the license agreements ) to keep data " forever " was not considered onerous at the time.