Example sentences of "be difficult [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if I could just raise an issue on item two three D on page four referring to horse riding because there is a concern about a , a lot of walkers , that horse riding on footpaths creates problems for them erm in , in terms of chewing up the path in , in such a way that they 're difficult to walk on , people even wearing boots . |
| 2 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 3 | She would not be taken in , of course ; but it might be difficult to refuse politely . |
| 4 | ‘ The rules for censorship of architecture might be difficult to draw up . ’ |
| 5 | It would not be difficult to draw up a similar set of misunderstandings from a survey of pupils in the classroom . |
| 6 | In some cases , such as defence or law and order , we all stand to benefit from the service and it would be difficult to envisage how it could be financed other than out of direct taxation . |
| 7 | It would be difficult to go back and admit this . |
| 8 | It would be difficult to demonstrate more dramatically the value of Frankish support for a Northumbrian ruler . |
| 9 | On the other hand it 'd be difficult to say well mum I just do n't want to see you and that smelly old woman , I 'm sure you 'll understand . |
| 10 | If you took it away I I it would be difficult to say quite how it would affect . |
| 11 | However , it is always repayable on demand and due to the fluctuating interest rate , costs may be difficult to assess over longer periods . |
| 12 | If you allow bad habits during practice , they will be difficult to lose later . |
| 13 | A pericentric inversion between 10p11.2 and 10q11.2 has not been described during human chromosome 10 evolution , but this would be difficult to detect cytogenetically . |
| 14 | The farm uses a variety of chemical packs , including powders like Goltix in packs , occasional metal cans for Metasystox , bags of manganese , water-soluble packs and oily sprays like Optica which can be difficult to hose out in a conventional way . |
| 15 | If the boot sole is flexible then a crampon is unlikely to give a secure enough fit and will be difficult to use properly for serious mountaineering . |
| 16 | You can generate the dust by rubbing the Polychromos Pastels against fine sandpaper , a practical use for small remnant pieces that would otherwise be difficult to use up , or you can do as I do and spread the dust from very lightly applied pastel strokes , placed to allow a very deliberate development of the effect over a localised area . |
| 17 | Impractical , because if all areas of the curriculum were treated at this level of detail , hundreds or even thousands of criteria would be produced ; educationally unacceptable because of the curriculum fragmentation which would result since it would be difficult to link up such large numbers of criteria . |
| 18 | Otherwise it may be difficult to appreciate how very natural it is that things should have turned out as they did . ) |
| 19 | In the 40 minutes that we shall have to debate each clause it will be difficult to point out to Tory Members the Bill 's inadequacies . |
| 20 | ‘ Even if they do get inside — and there 's no guarantee that they will be able to do so — wo n't it be difficult to move around and see anything ? ’ |
| 21 | It may be difficult to open up at first , but when you do you 'll be on the way to overcoming the traumas of the past and rebuilding your self-esteem . |
| 22 | This will be difficult to carry out on barnacles , but comparatively easy for mussels , limpets or other snails . |
| 23 | As a result the Keynesian approach to policy-setting may be difficult to carry out successfully . |
| 24 | With no native capability for remote administration and maintenance , it will be difficult to set up NT servers in locations without a skilled administrator . |
| 25 | You are also turning up the relics of perennial weeds that can be difficult to eliminate later . |
| 26 | The linker is easy to use with smooth yarns , but textured yarns can be difficult to cast off . |
| 27 | This can be one of the trickiest areas of photography , for very often the product is not really very different from many others on the market and what differences there are may be difficult to illustrate photographically . |
| 28 | Although one suspects that the extreme rural and intermediate rural areas would be reduced in area if the same exercise were repeated for the 1981 census ( unfortunately it has n't and anyway would be difficult to do so since local authority boundaries have changed since 1971 ) , the analysis did allow Cloke ( 1978 ) to compare degrees of rurality between 1961 and 1971 , and to produce a three-fold typology of rural areas that were becoming increasingly non-rural , were static or becoming increasingly rural , and to produce maps of these three types for each of the four rural areas shown in Figure 5.5 . |
| 29 | This is especially the case where we have an instruction set defined for a compatible range of computers , since it will be difficult to implement economically at the lower ( and cheaper ) end of the range the complex facilities required at the upper end ( though microprogramming may be an answer ) . |
| 30 | ‘ The firms represent one particular viewpoint and until we 've considered the argument on both sides , it will be difficult to see where the balance lies , ’ Simon Peerless of the ASB told ACCOUNTANCY . |