Example sentences of "is difficult [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is difficult to draw any definite conclusions from such bald statistics on recorded crime , they clearly posed a major embarrassment for a Government pledged to reduce the crime rate . |
| 2 | It is difficult to draw any hard conclusions from this , especially when one of the Catholics , Diego de Zuñiga , who taught philosophy and theology at the University of Salamanca , adopted the Copernican system in the context of expounding Job 9:6 . |
| 3 | It is difficult to pinpoint any one category of persons likely to commit this offence as a variety of motives will be involved . |
| 4 | It is difficult to give any general definition of management as what constitutes management varies greatly between jobs and between organisations . |
| 5 | It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile . |
| 6 | Not only does the contradictory nature of the evidence preclude any generalization , but it is difficult to conduct any cross-cultural comparisons because there is no agreement as to what should be compared . |
| 7 | It is difficult to acquire any further facts about its past . |
| 8 | Few were noted as making prolonged stays and it is difficult to assign any particular record as a wintering or passage bird . |
| 9 | Assuming a free choice becomes possible , it is difficult to foresee any great increase in the numbers of limited partnerships . |
| 10 | It is difficult to reconcile these two interpretations . |
| 11 | Peer judgement by the group of colleagues concerning substantial criminal experience is difficult given that criminal advocacy is only one part of their daily practice . |
| 12 | There is very little likelihood of confusion arising whichever spelling is used in English documents , though there will be far-reaching consequences , for example in text-books , abstracts , indices , dictionaries , computer programs , and teaching , but it is difficult to see any compensating advantages in adopting the US version . |
| 13 | But in considering the privilege against self-incrimination it is difficult to see any logical distinction between an order for discovery and disclosure where the defendant has stolen the plaintiff 's property and an order for discovery and disclosure where the plaintiff is seeking damages for fraud in dealings by the defendant with the property or moneys of the plaintiff . |
| 14 | It is difficult to see any significant differences between that case and those in which a perpetually renewable lease has been found to have been created . |
| 15 | It is difficult to see any chronological explanation for these different usages , since some of his earliest works , including Jesu , corona Virginum , H53 , and Pange lingua , H58 , employ 3/2 with modern notation , while a very late work , the Mass Assumpta est Maria , H ll , of 1699 , has seven passages in 3/2 void notation . |
| 16 | It is difficult to ignore this combined perspective on Anglo-Saxon society in the early eighth century and its implication that it had entered ‘ a highly unstable phase ’ . |
| 17 | It is difficult to detect any direct influence of Darwin 's writings on the development of the main stream of plant ecology . |
| 18 | We have all gone through the same system ( which seems not to have harmed us ) , and it is difficult to accept that current students should be taught differently . |
| 19 | It is difficult to provide any general reading for this Lecture . |
| 20 | It is difficult to provide any comparable data over the last thirty years and though the general impression is one of slight reduction in socio-economic inequalities in GP consultation , this should not be taken for granted . |
| 21 | It is difficult to imagine that vertical sea cliffs 60 m ( 200 ft ) high , such as those at Hartland Point in Devon , have been cut entirely in the short Post-glacial period since the sea rose to its present level . |
| 22 | However , particularly in long-settled countries , it is difficult to differentiate such biogeographical studies from those by historical geographers or economic historians and it was a historical geographer ( Darby , 1956 ) who mapped and compared the distribution of forest in AD 900 with that in AD 1900 . |
| 23 | It is difficult to discover any intelligible principles which would justify , or even explain , the existence of so many different tribunals . ’ |
| 24 | Each has its relative merits depending on the application in mind and it is difficult to recommend any one package in particular . |
| 25 | The view of senior management is that policemen need to combine the qualities of compassion and toughness and know when each is appropri — ate ( FN 11/11/87 , pp. 7–8 ) , although in practice it is difficult to strike this fine balance . |
| 26 | It is difficult to show that individual diet , and consequently survival , had improved ( Rotberg and Rabb 1985 ) . |
| 27 | I 'm sorry , it is difficult to keep all these things entirely in one 's mind erm |
| 28 | Before 1400 there were no censuses in the modern sense , and at all periods before the nineteenth century it is difficult to find any precise evidence for population . |
| 29 | Despite widespread opposition to abolition expressed in opinion polls it is difficult to discern any significant backlash in the 1987 general election — indeed the increase in the Conservative vote in London seems to have been higher than elsewhere . |
| 30 | It is true that these processes may well have a spatial expression in a specific situation , but there are others to which it is difficult to attribute any physical manifestation , or by definition which can not have a spatial expression at all . |