Example sentences of "it is [adv] difficult [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather difficult to explain that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is immensely difficult to identify these smaller lights . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In most cases , at least one of the states involved in valence excitation transitions has two unpaired electrons , and it is notoriously difficult to handle such states adequately . |
| 9 | It is important , while acknowledging that many policies are made complex and ambiguous by the conflicts within the policy-making process , to recognize that it is intrinsically difficult to specify some policy goals in terms that will render the implementation process quite clear and unambiguous . |
| 10 | It is increasingly difficult to find sufficient land to bury them . |
| 11 | With more and more people getting their pop information from our squalid popular press and with most modern magazines covering music using only the language of consumerism and gossip , it is increasingly difficult to feel optimistic about rock journalism 's values . |
| 12 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |
| 13 | Not only has much explanation had to be included , but it is also difficult to make many useful comments after a visit of only a few days . |
| 14 | But it is surprisingly difficult to find precise quantification of these comparisons . |
| 15 | It is actually the key question in the whole debate , but one in which it is especially difficult to make convincing , informed predictions . |
| 16 | It is obviously difficult to study arterial prostacyclin production in diabetic subjects . |
| 17 | It is very difficult to sample young people in the general population , since there is no list of them anywhere . |
| 18 | It is very difficult to seal all the cracks in a building so a more effective method is to create an underpressure beneath the floor to counter that in the building . |
| 19 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 20 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 21 | It is very difficult to do this without producing a ‘ blurred-vision ’ effect in the resist — so you may well have to scrap that attempt , recoat the board with resist and start all over again . |
| 22 | Nevertheless it is very difficult to do any harm with ‘ first aid ’ Homoeopathy using low potency remedies . |
| 23 | A good round followed by a poor one often means a missed cut , and it is very difficult to put two rounds together on consecutive days if you have not been used to doing so . |
| 24 | It is very difficult to date these artefacts , owing to their poor condition , but here goes : |
| 25 | The session failure rate would have been considerably lower , but it is very difficult to estimate this from log data alone . |
| 26 | Of course we only support a tiny proportion of the proposals put to us , mainly because it is very difficult to create new and revolutionary approaches . |
| 27 | One contributor replied that it is very difficult to create new jobs at all and especially difficult to attract jobs to Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | It is very difficult to compare statistical data from different countries , because of the variation in the criteria used for diagnosis and notification , and the greater or lesser degree of under-reporting that is found almost everywhere . |
| 29 | It is very difficult to produce this type of game but I am asking my players to do it . |
| 30 | Apart from the fairly depressing conclusion that it is very difficult to study neural mechanisms of behaviour , what else is there to learn from this summary of methodology ? |