Example sentences of "it [is] difficult [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to define this kind of skiing which ranges from skiing down the edge of the piste in the powder which the pistemachine does not reach , to touring from hut to hut far away from ski resorts . |
| 2 | It is difficult to define this atmosphere which I find exists for me in many of our traditional buildings and churches . |
| 3 | It is difficult to resist this view because of the great successes of medicine , public health , education , welfare and technology . |
| 4 | It is difficult to describe this body accurately . |
| 5 | At one level , of course , it is difficult to assess this claim since none of the supporters of reform ever made it . |
| 6 | It is difficult to view this obscurantism of the chairmen with sympathy . |
| 7 | At first sight it is difficult to reconcile this finding with those of Sachs ( 1967 ) and Garrod and Trabasso ( 1973 ) that recognition memory for the surface form of sentences disappears within 40–60 syllables of input . |
| 8 | It is difficult to reconcile this book 's title with its content , since there is no consecutive , focused discussion anywhere of this ‘ rise ’ . |
| 9 | It is difficult to accept this interpretation because there is no evidence to imply that the site was ever promoted to the rank of civitas capital , and it seems simplest to assume that it fulfilled some other official function . |
| 10 | Proviso ( a ) It is difficult to understand this defence because it is already included within the statutory definition of merchantibility as it will affect the description under which the goods are sold . |
| 11 | However , it is difficult to relate this mosaic with the sequence of saltire arrangements already discussed . |
| 12 | It is difficult to prevent this sort of instinctive reaction . |
| 13 | It is difficult to identify this character in unsectioned skulls , but it is likely that some degree of airorhynchy is primitive for hominoids , greatly exaggerated in the pongine lineage and modified towards klinorhynchy in hominines , but as my observations lead me to believe that the bonobo is airorhynchous to some degree , it is difficult to be sure of the ancestral hominine character state . |
| 14 | It is difficult to interpret this change in attitudes , which could reflect increased levels of patient expectation , a decrease in the quality of the service provided or a combination of the two . |
| 15 | Support from relatives may also be received but it is difficult to quantify this source of income and it is excluded from the analysis which follows . |
| 16 | It is difficult to find this tea , but it is worth looking for . |