Example sentences of "[is] difficult [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't say what video card is fitted to your machine so it 's difficult to speculate any further . |
| 2 | It 's difficult to talk here , is n't it ? |
| 3 | Meg Dennison — she housekeeps for the Reverend and Mrs Copley at the Old Rectory — thinks we ought to do more for them but it 's difficult to see precisely what . |
| 4 | If equipment or projects must be subsidised from individual pockets , if there are no resources for creche facilities or disabled access it 's difficult to envisage genuinely equal opportunities . |
| 5 | Well I think that it 's difficult to say exactly what kind of an institution the European Parliament will turn out to be . |
| 6 | It 's difficult to say well I mean suppose with all of these , the the light the sunlight is going |
| 7 | ‘ It 's difficult to say just how much spending will fall short of target , ’ says Henry Bordes-Pages . |
| 8 | Nor , unfading in our mind 's eye , will this hanger-on and fantasist and self-dramatizer ever do anything , though it 's difficult to say so without a chilling , denaturing hint of analytics . |
| 9 | you see I 've got one in the front room and I had this one put in so then I say if I am in the kitchen , I say , I lift up the receiver , hello , and hear who it is and then I , I say hang on while I get round the chair and then you see I sit on the arm of this chair and talk because er it 's difficult to stand too long |
| 10 | Until you see them for yourself , in fact , it 's difficult to conceive just how magnificent they really are . |
| 11 | When you get such a splodge of colour eh , it 's difficult to know just how well adjusted your colour level is on the television . |
| 12 | It 's difficult to know exactly where to lay the blame . |
| 13 | In response to George 's complaints about indifference in Tin Pan Alley ( October ‘ 92 ) you said , ‘ It 's difficult to know exactly where to lay the blame . ’ |
| 14 | But erm so , so it 's difficult to know exactly what 's happening now , and unless I see it in the office . |
| 15 | I think it 's more erm if it 's it 's difficult to know exactly because people shift into different repertoires . |
| 16 | And er , it 's difficult to know quite how to photograph windmills . |
| 17 | She says she knows it 's difficult to get away but this is really important and if you do n't come , then I think she 'll gatecrash your place … |
| 18 | Both the exhibition and the Show reminded us forcibly that it 's difficult to get away from politics in China . |
| 19 | Some are better than others , but with the long lead time , it 's difficult to get too optimistic . |
| 20 | It 's difficult to get across to those who did n't know him just how outlandish this idea seemed . |
| 21 | But it 's difficult to get there , if I mean it 's quite a . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps it 's difficult to believe now , but the Glynn boys could take their pick of girls . |
| 23 | Even when we all work , it is difficult to earn even the minimum wage for one , which is about nine pounds a month . |
| 24 | However much you may have heard , without actually going there , it is difficult to appreciate just how far rugby is woven into the warp and woof of South African society . |
| 25 | The striking head is difficult to parallel stylistically , and the teeth seem to have been cut with an abrasive wheel which would not have been available in the Americas before the Spanish conquest . |
| 26 | Because her talents lay in organization , personal inspiration , and a somewhat Wagnerian style of oratory , rather than in writing and analytical thought , it is difficult to pinpoint precisely the nature of her impact upon contemporaries , but she clearly inspired great personal devotion in both women and men . |
| 27 | So brief is the note , and couched in such general terms , that it is difficult to base much upon it , but worth noting are the facts that he clearly saw his choice as lying in the normal way between tedris and kaza , which he calls two paths or careers ; that a signal disadvantage of teaching was that it was unremunerative ; and , not least , that , unable to contemplate either alternative , he was able to find a home for his talents and interests in the bureaucracy . |
| 28 | It is difficult to put forward a programme which holds out hope of a better life when you have singularly failed to live up to your promises during your term of office . |
| 29 | He looks surprised when I ask if it is difficult to put so much energy into something for which you do n't get paid : ‘ It makes absolutely no difference at all . |
| 30 | It is difficult to improve further , younger rivals are appearing , contemporaries in other fields are in settled careers . |