Example sentences of "it [modal v] be difficult [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These comments certainly apply if a series is being sexed , but if only one or two long bones ( or fragments ) are available , it may be difficult to draw any conclusions unless the bone displays very clear indications of maleness or femaleness ( Boyd & Trevor , 1953 ) . |
| 2 | In both cases it may be difficult to acquire sufficient information for a complete evaluation of the situation . |
| 3 | Secondly , it may be difficult to sustain American hegemony politically , both for international and domestic reasons . |
| 4 | If s and f are both on a strong upward ( or downward ) trend , it may be difficult to obtain true estimates of the parameters α and β . |
| 5 | However , where there are small numbers of members of a particular Anonymous Fellowships it may be difficult to obtain sufficient numbers to get the maximum benefit from the group process . |
| 6 | It may be difficult to keep three courses within the limits , especially if you are eating another meal during the day , but you can certainly try ! |
| 7 | This ensures continuity with more than one worker , where it may be difficult to find one person to live in permanently . |
| 8 | It may be difficult to age wild animals , but not so temperate trees , because annually they produce growth rings . |
| 9 | African leaders who recognise that it may be difficult to impose any further sanctions believe they have found the way forward . |
| 10 | This suggests that it may be difficult to maintain large power differences and still hope to keep a group happy . ’ |
| 11 | In each case the court held the promise to be binding on the party making it , even though under the old common law it might be difficult to find any consideration for it . |
| 12 | For example , fugato is so closely associated with the old oratorio style that it would be difficult to use this contrapuntal technique at all without evoking such an atmosphere . |
| 13 | Secondly , the prevention of mental handicap is obviously not completely attainable , given that it would be difficult to eradicate such a wide range of causes , but the reduction of the incidence of mental handicap clearly is a sound proposition . |
| 14 | He declined on the ground that if such a service was set up , it would be difficult to resist similar demands from other classes of physically afflicted . |
| 15 | With such a powerful presence , it would be difficult to argue that advertising revenue , and therefore advertisers , do not play an important role in deciding the future success of a particular medium . |
| 16 | Ministers also accept that it would be difficult to allow competing services into each London rail terminal . |
| 17 | The point here is that given the institutional and political realities of the formulation and implementation of nuclear policy , it would be difficult to characterise any rights to which the peace movement may wish to lay claim ( for example , the right to a nuclear-free world ) as legally protected ‘ choices ’ , especially given the insistence by some governments that nuclear policy is not a ‘ justiciable ’ issue ( Weiss , Chapter 11 ; but see Offczors and Ruete , Chapter 13 ; Hickman , Chapter 12 , all in this volume ) . |
| 18 | In the broad sense of the term ‘ political ’ , the answer must be in the affirmative , but it would be difficult to describe these intellectuals as ‘ dissidents ’ , Many have , in fact , refused to accept this label ; it has overtones of being unpatriotic . |
| 19 | Approached systematically , however , it would be difficult to show that , before the coming of States which enforced degrees of uniformity upon their citizens , what was common to a people living in a particular territory was greater than what they had in common with people outside the territory . |
| 20 | It was an arena it would be difficult to get many ‘ ordinary ’ people to enter . |
| 21 | It would be difficult to distinguish osmotic effect ( jejunal malabsorption ) from diarrhoea generated entirely from within the colon , as implied by other workers . |
| 22 | When 5 Corps had first been informed by Gen Schmidt-Richberg of the approach of 600,000 Germans and Croats to the southern edge of the Corps area on the evening of 13 May , it had been assumed that this huge mass of fugitives was on the verge of entering Austria and that it would be difficult to prevent all of them from doing so . |
| 23 | It would be difficult to build water-gathering reservoirs of the size of those found in other Parts of the Pennines in the Dales because of the many eaves and potholes that would carry the water away . |
| 24 | It would be difficult to make any long-term difference to the development of the Spinward Corporation , because this moment exists and must fit into Spinward 's development . |
| 25 | It is unusual outside some strictly regulated professional courses to find two courses covering the same content ; it would be difficult to find two that have exactly the same pattern of assessment ; and impossible to find two that are taught in precisely the same way . |
| 26 | Massive prison population expansion in recent years is by no means unique to the United States , but it would be difficult to find other examples where during the 1980s the annual rate of growth exceeded 11 per cent . |
| 27 | It would be difficult to find another industry where division of labor has been so ingeniously and microscopically worked out . |
| 28 | Even with the best of intentions it will be difficult to undo past developments . |
| 29 | For similar reasons it will be difficult to argue that action taken by the exchange in good faith in the interests of the exchange as a whole is intended to induce a breach of contract , merely because this is an incidental side-effect . |
| 30 | Intervention by the library committee has prevented the sales for the time being but it will be difficult to monitor such activities in the long term . |