Example sentences of "is difficult [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The part of Joy Davidman is very well played by Kay Gallie though it is difficult to take to the character in the first act of the play . |
| 2 | As prepared to leave the Basingstoke premises for the last time , she said : ‘ While it is difficult to take in the reality of the situation after all this time , we are delighted that the initials continue to have prominence under a new and synergetic banner . ’ |
| 3 | But it was still not enough to overcome the crisis , and it is difficult to quarrel with the verdict of many of Hoover 's critics — " too little , too late " . |
| 4 | This position is difficult to defend in the case of certain forms of stratification . |
| 5 | It is difficult to move from the clown role to that of order-keeper , and so the role of other adults is important . |
| 6 | The ‘ typical ’ Caterham driver is difficult to categorise beyond the fact that he will be a sports car enthusiast ‘ who takes pride in his driving ’ ( there is an unspoken assumption that he is male ) . |
| 7 | St Donavint who won at Galway and Sligo is highly consistent and is difficult to oppose in the opening Rea 's Bar and Restaurant Handicap Hurdle although Wexford winner Sensitive King wo n't be far away . |
| 8 | Likewise , the rising proportion of noble farmers who had switched from ‘ semi-feudal ’ to direct , ‘ capitalist ’ farming by 1914 is difficult to reconcile with the notion that the assault upon noble landownership in 1917 constituted an economically progressive ‘ bourgeois-democratic ’ revolt against ‘ feudal ’ practices . |
| 9 | The strike record in the immediate pre-war years is difficult to reconcile with the notion that workers ' protest was becoming less intense . |
| 10 | In this uninterrupted narrative of rowdyism and mischief running through the writings of these Christian youth workers in the 1920s and 1930s , it is not only the behaviour itself that is difficult to reconcile with the nostalgia which has come to settle around postwar perceptions of pre-war social realities . |
| 11 | Criminal libel corresponds to no " pressing social need " of the sort which the European Court insists should justify restraints on free expression , and its continuing existence is difficult to reconcile with the decision in Lingens v Austria ( see p69 ) . |
| 12 | This approach is difficult to reconcile with the principle of supremacy of Community law and would not seem to be the correct way to apply the principle of indirect effect the duty of the national courts to interpret national law as far as possible to bring it into line with Community obligations . |
| 13 | Lennie 's ( 1980 ) proposal makes the most sense of the relative number of the cell types in the retina but is difficult to reconcile with the lesion data . |
| 14 | Red is used by one major manufacturer but this is difficult to reconcile with the use of the same colour for acid products . |
| 15 | Detecting patterns in a large , complex semantic net is difficult to do without the aid of computer programs . |
| 16 | It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juvenile delinquents are chasing . |
| 17 | It is difficult to see through the vagueness now surrounding the Government 's plans , but it is clear that ministers were both unprepared and unco-ordinated in their response to what MPs across the political divide detected as the stench of injustice . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal has the advantage ( if dealing with cases such as these after the trial judge has made the initial decision ; it is difficult to say on the basis of these cases how a trial judge at first instance should approach them . |
| 19 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 20 | Later in the book he expands on this , saying : We are such insignificant creatures on a minor planet of a very average star in the outer suburbs of one of a hundred thousand million galaxies … that it is difficult to believe in a god that would care about us or even notice our existence . |
| 21 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 22 | It is difficult to generalise about the kind of people who come on the courses , but they all arrive with serious intent . |
| 23 | However , as Lim and Foo ( 1987 ) argue , it is difficult to generalize on the impact of TNC employment on different groups of women even within the same society . |
| 24 | - If it is difficult to generalize about the style of an author , how much more difficult may it be to generalize about the style of a genre or an epoch . |
| 25 | On the whole , yes , though it is difficult to think of an artist tailoring a picture to the requirements of an exhibition . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is difficult to think of the expression of any ideas that does not reveal a moral attitude . |
| 27 | The procedure in " documents-only " arbitrations is difficult to distinguish from the procedure in some references to an expert . |
| 28 | Some sculptures are designed for their sites , and the relationship between site and sculpture is difficult to capture in a book . |
| 29 | This , however , is difficult to determine in the case of quantum gravity , for two reasons . |
| 30 | How far these variations affected the ability of tenants to sublet is difficult to determine in the absence of objective criteria . |