arduous

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: The heat combined with more than two weeks continuous pulling made the job arduous.
• find: Mrs Hull worked the night shift herself when she took over the Home and found the work not arduous.

Modifies a noun

• trek: The twelve day arduous trek to base camp is quite dangerous.
• journey: From there, the arduous journey into the center of the great desert began.
• task: Each team then began the arduous task of choosing its drivers from the many letters received.
• undertaking: This has been an arduous undertaking for applicants, taking up to 40 hours to complete.
• terrain: Soldiers need to be tested in the most arduous terrain.
• climb: Lines were rigged to help them make the arduous climb.

Modifying Another Word

• physically: Prospective applicants are advised that days will be long and hot, and the work physically arduous.
• extremely: The result is an extremely arduous journey that simply isn't worth taking.
• somewhat: If you think evangelism is a somewhat arduous task in that environment, you're right.
• particularly: You also need to bear in mind any particularly arduous hills, tight bends or islands, speed bumps or narrow lanes.
• fairly: The three of us traveled out by train; a fairly arduous 30-hour journey without any real sleep.
• too: Not too arduous a task for a Sunday morning.

Infinitive complement

• get: This makes it evermore arduous to get cover for research that involves any type of human risk.

Used with adjective complement

• become: For more than 1000 years the Church has labored in this place, and her work becomes more arduous as time goes on.
• make: At first, these tasks were made arduous by the lack of tools.
• seem: The crawls didn't seem too arduous really and the squeezes not ridiculously tight.
• prove: Mixing up the different ingredients and applying them doesn't prove too arduous.

Preposition: of

• condition: They undergo enormous strains and in the most arduous of conditions with no maintenance or lubrication.