Example sentences of "it is difficult [to-vb] how such " in BNC.

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1 However , it is difficult to see how such criteria can be formulated to ensure that treatment is received by those individuals that the home authority would have chosen .
2 Thus , a child may be said to acquire the rules of grammar , although it is difficult to see how such rules can be established as a result of numerous discrete learning experiences .
3 At all events , it is difficult to see how such a gain would do more than very marginally modify the picture which has been outlined .
4 But there is also a practical and political problem , since it is difficult to see how such a theory could speak in any way to the practical or material concerns of women .
5 But this merely raises the problem of a definition of " truth conditions " and it is difficult to see how such a definition can steer clear of the question of " ontological commitment " .
6 In the real world it is difficult to see how such a tax could be imposed or calculated , and it would make much more practical sense to tackle the offending firm under monopolies legislation .
7 The source of the sand raises an interesting question , because it is difficult to see how such amounts could have been accumulated by the wind .
8 It is difficult to see how such chaotic initial conditions could have given rise to a universe that is so smooth and regular on a large scale as ours is today .
9 It has more frequently been suggested that dilute sources will promote visits to many nowers and thus out-crossing , though it is difficult to see how such a mechanism could arise , and perhaps it is more satisfactory to surmise that visits by a pollen-dusted vector to several flowers on one plant are promoted , leading to cross fertilization of more .
10 It is difficult to understand how such selectivity can be justified , in view of the fact that these studies and their results are quite incompatible with the major theoretical thrust of the book , which is complexly cognitive in the best Binet tradition .
11 It is difficult to visualize how such intricate and finely tuned mechanisms could have arisen purely by chance , and gradual evolution is unlikely since these instances of cooperation between widely different species appear , in many instances , fully developed , without a series of intermediate forms .
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