Example sentences of "it be [adv] difficult [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's always difficult to trust old enemies . |
| 2 | Now , designing systems like that requires computers with big memories , much , much bigger than the ones that you can buy in your shop round the corner at the moment , and the programs are quite complicated , it 's quite difficult to do this sort of thing , but in principle there 's no reason why it should n't happen , and that would make computers much easier to learn to use . |
| 3 | One of the group 's members observed : ‘ One of the worrying things is the utter secrecy that surrounds all these prospecting activities now taking place — it 's extremely difficult to get any information about what 's going on and what people 's rights are and what dangers are involved ’ . |
| 4 | There are a lot of producers who tell me it 's extremely difficult to get British writers to do a third draft . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's extremely difficult to heat this sort of place in the winter , ’ he continued , taking the coffee from Lowell . |
| 6 | It 's extremely difficult to breed Emerald Tree boas . |
| 7 | Erm , but still getting , but we maybe getting a broader front on either focus too narrow a beam , sometimes it 's too difficult to get that narrow boat to be on exactly the right spot . |
| 8 | Alright , and that , that 's where most of differentiation of food products erm , has emanated from , it 's not changing the food product itself , right , because it 's very difficult to do that , but it 's the combination of food products and marketing services that erm , characterizes the differentiation . |
| 9 | Mathematically it 's very difficult to do this . |
| 10 | It 's very difficult to answer individual cases , but I will do my best on guesswork here . |
| 11 | It 's very difficult to analyze that using manual systems . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's very difficult to replace that sort of quality , particularly by clubs who do n't spend a great deal of money . |
| 13 | People might 've messed around with it by putting this overhead profit to risk , they might 've put a negative er element in there , er they might 've put a high-cost element in there , they might put nought in there , so it 's very difficult to recognise that , that bill rates er from the labour , or the labour from the bill rate , there is n't a standard relationship , nowhere near . |
| 14 | Absolutely , and you will find when we look on the video the number of people who held up a piece of paper if you hold things up and I 'm holding this now because I 'm about to write but if if you stand here and hold a piece of paper then it 's very difficult to make symmetrical palm gestures , open palm gestures . |
| 15 | If if I I think what I what I would like to say What what I think is that E Ten Erm it 's very difficult to make this point , since it 's an approved policy in an an approved structure plan , but I think E Ten 's got it wrong . |
| 16 | It 's very difficult to quantify those sorts of effects and er to members and the decision makers have to come to a judgement as best they can , given the information that 's before them . |
| 17 | And it 's very difficult to get other people to do it like you want it . |
| 18 | It 's very difficult to get professional advice that is apposite — you used to be able to get free advice from the Ministry of Agriculture but now they charge you for the privilege of being told how not to farm . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It is difficult to make the transition because the normal prerequisite of a finance director is that they must have had board level experience and as a financial controller reporting to a director it 's very difficult to get that . ’ |
| 20 | It 's very difficult to find any support at all for rail privatization outside a handful of ministers . |
| 21 | It 's very difficult to play continental teams because you 're never sure what tactics and style they 'll adopt but with England everyone knows . ’ |
| 22 | Dan could hum what he wanted but it 's very difficult to play that sort of thing . ’ |
| 23 | I think most men are under the impression that we all want to look like Samantha Fox , but if you have a big chest it 's very difficult to handle all the hassle you get when you walk down the street . |
| 24 | It is rather difficult to explain that . |
| 25 | It is rather difficult to reconcile this with the ability of major brands in heavily advertised markets to establish and maintain their reputations over many years . |
| 26 | It is generally difficult to find recurrent contrasts of form in which they participate , let alone recurrent semantic contrasts — and they do not respond to any of the rescue strategies . |
| 27 | It is frightfully difficult to make inexperienced pilots realise the necessity of even so small a formation as two aircraft keeping one up above looking out while the other is attacking the Hun . |
| 28 | It is particularly difficult to maintain smooth phenylalanine control in subjects with severe enzyme deficiency , in whom even a minor feverish illness or fall in energy intake may lead to a rise in phenylalanine concentrations . |
| 29 | It is immensely difficult to identify these smaller lights . |
| 30 | But since ‘ obtaining the possession by any trick ’ amounts to a taking for the purpose of larceny , it is notoriously difficult to draw any logical distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and to decide whether a particular case amounts to the one offence or the other . |