Example sentences of "[be] difficult [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those means would be extra-parliamentary ; they would be unlikely to be confined to constitutional and lawful action and it would not be difficult to mount persuasive moral arguments for such activities . |
| 2 | These comments certainly apply if a series is being sexed , but if only one or two long bones ( or fragments ) are available , it may be difficult to draw any conclusions unless the bone displays very clear indications of maleness or femaleness ( Boyd & Trevor , 1953 ) . |
| 3 | Even with the best of intentions it will be difficult to undo past developments . |
| 4 | Intervention by the library committee has prevented the sales for the time being but it will be difficult to monitor such activities in the long term . |
| 5 | It would not be difficult to extend this analysis and to identify other types of interaction . |
| 6 | It can be difficult to assess individual performance with group investigations . |
| 7 | It can be difficult to assess high-inference skills such as originality , commitment , initiative … etc . |
| 8 | The point here is that given the institutional and political realities of the formulation and implementation of nuclear policy , it would be difficult to characterise any rights to which the peace movement may wish to lay claim ( for example , the right to a nuclear-free world ) as legally protected ‘ choices ’ , especially given the insistence by some governments that nuclear policy is not a ‘ justiciable ’ issue ( Weiss , Chapter 11 ; but see Offczors and Ruete , Chapter 13 ; Hickman , Chapter 12 , all in this volume ) . |
| 9 | In the broad sense of the term ‘ political ’ , the answer must be in the affirmative , but it would be difficult to describe these intellectuals as ‘ dissidents ’ , Many have , in fact , refused to accept this label ; it has overtones of being unpatriotic . |
| 10 | A low vision aid must be held at the correct distance from the material to be viewed for maximum magnification to be effected , and it can be difficult to sustain this with a hand-held magnifier for any length of time . |
| 11 | Secondly , it may be difficult to sustain American hegemony politically , both for international and domestic reasons . |
| 12 | He declined on the ground that if such a service was set up , it would be difficult to resist similar demands from other classes of physically afflicted . |
| 13 | In both cases it may be difficult to acquire sufficient information for a complete evaluation of the situation . |
| 14 | For example , fugato is so closely associated with the old oratorio style that it would be difficult to use this contrapuntal technique at all without evoking such an atmosphere . |
| 15 | In this situation it will be difficult to generate manufactured or processed exports since the expertise to produce competitively for international markets will be in short supply , though some countries such as Zimbabwe will be able to build on their existing export base . |
| 16 | With such a powerful presence , it would be difficult to argue that advertising revenue , and therefore advertisers , do not play an important role in deciding the future success of a particular medium . |
| 17 | For similar reasons it will be difficult to argue that action taken by the exchange in good faith in the interests of the exchange as a whole is intended to induce a breach of contract , merely because this is an incidental side-effect . |
| 18 | None the less , it is surely true that it will be difficult to reach firm conclusions from comparing experiments which , however similar they may be formally , use quite different subjects , stimuli , and training procedures . |
| 19 | Ministers also accept that it would be difficult to allow competing services into each London rail terminal . |
| 20 | Secondly , the prevention of mental handicap is obviously not completely attainable , given that it would be difficult to eradicate such a wide range of causes , but the reduction of the incidence of mental handicap clearly is a sound proposition . |
| 21 | An expert 's instructions will often be to reach a final decision , and it should usually not be difficult to imply that obligation . |
| 22 | It looks like it 's going to be difficult to shrug this one off , picking at the racist scab was never going to do anyone any good , quiffy boy . |
| 23 | African leaders who recognise that it may be difficult to impose any further sanctions believe they have found the way forward . |
| 24 | It would be difficult to build water-gathering reservoirs of the size of those found in other Parts of the Pennines in the Dales because of the many eaves and potholes that would carry the water away . |
| 25 | It is unusual outside some strictly regulated professional courses to find two courses covering the same content ; it would be difficult to find two that have exactly the same pattern of assessment ; and impossible to find two that are taught in precisely the same way . |
| 26 | Massive prison population expansion in recent years is by no means unique to the United States , but it would be difficult to find other examples where during the 1980s the annual rate of growth exceeded 11 per cent . |
| 27 | This ensures continuity with more than one worker , where it may be difficult to find one person to live in permanently . |
| 28 | In each case the court held the promise to be binding on the party making it , even though under the old common law it might be difficult to find any consideration for it . |
| 29 | It would be difficult to find another industry where division of labor has been so ingeniously and microscopically worked out . |
| 30 | ‘ Surely it would n't be difficult to find another skipper ? |