Example sentences of "it difficult [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | That proposition presupposes that if you make a reduction in the district figures , then you must have an idea what the district contribution towards the Greater York figure is , er and I find it difficult to see that you can have , if you have a new settlement , if you have a new settlement the C provision for the new settlement floating in this table , erm but can I just say before we adjourn for coffee , that I really would like to have some very firm answers to the questions which are posed under issue two , er and particularly about two D and that is specific guidance on the location of the new settlement . |
| 2 | I 'm not a convinced believer , I just do n't find it difficult to credit that in these very ancient sites of occupation , where such emotional things are known to have happened , people should develop special sensitivities , racial memories , hypernormal sympathies , whatever you like to call them . |
| 3 | Finally , as we have shown earlier , what is defined as criminal varies across time and place , thus making it difficult to argue that in-built differences between the sexes can explain what is a variable phenomena . |
| 4 | The buyer will find it difficult to argue that the clause was not agreed upon if it is contained in a document signed by him . |
| 5 | The paucity of inflammatory cells in the lamina propria that is usually seen with this type of gastritis makes it difficult to argue that the increased synthesis derives from inflammatory cells . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , but my tongue runs away with me and I find it difficult to realize that Matt is dead . ’ |
| 7 | From the 1570s onwards , even in the conservative south-west of the country , statements by testators which indicate a belief in solafidianism appeared regularly in the preambles of large numbers of wills , although the comments which the same testators made when leaving bequests to charities suggest that many still found it difficult to appreciate that good works could play absolutely no part in their salvation . |
| 8 | Provided the relaxation of the previous exclusionary rule is so limited , I find it difficult to suppose that the additional cost of litigation or any other ground of objection can justify the court continuing to wear blinkers which , in such a case as this , conceal the vital clue to the intended meaning of an enactment . |
| 9 | According to Cashman of the AFCO , employers will find it difficult to plead that they were unaware that cigarette smoke caused illness , when employees sue them . |
| 10 | Anybody seeing this operation in the modern bottling halls of Champagne houses today will find it difficult to imagine that it was in regular use a hundred years ago , yet the two pioneers of the à la glace system , Moët & Chandon and Perrier Jouët , both introduced the process in 1891 , independently of each other , and five years before it was patented by Walfart on 14 November 1896 . |
| 11 | Antonietta , my new friend , finds it difficult to understand that I enjoy living alone as I do , in a strange city . |
| 12 | I find it I find I must say I find it difficult to understand why you find it difficult to understand that they they chose that particular route . |
| 13 | Practical and ethical problems make it difficult to prove that viruses cause cancer in humans . |
| 14 | Even if we now find it difficult to accept that these were real or substantial recompenses for the life she had chosen to live we can not reasonably question that she did . |
| 15 | Without such explanation , of course , it makes it difficult to accept that the same things really are taking place in the different spheres . |
| 16 | Yet , somehow , because the mind of another creature is such alien territory to us , we find it difficult to accept that such mental activity and subjective sensory awareness , really is going on . |
| 17 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 18 | ‘ I agree , yet somehow I find it difficult to accept that you live entirely by that principle . ’ |
| 19 | A buyer who has taken the formal step of signing a document will therefore find it difficult to show that it was not a contractual document . |
| 20 | In a contract made between parties face to face the seller will find it difficult to show that to him the identity of the buyer was a vital factor in deciding to make the contract . |
| 21 | At the other end , advertisers find it difficult to admit that they are supposed to be addressing an audience in middle age and onwards . |
| 22 | The Conservatives also were to find it difficult to forget that he was not from their side , but a Labour appointee with clear and continuing sympathies for the trade unions . |
| 23 | I sometimes find it difficult to believe that other lesbians will accept me as one of them . |
| 24 | I find it difficult to believe that a male Oscar would let a female spawn on her own — unless she was so much larger than him that he dare not go near . |
| 25 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 26 | I find it difficult to believe that intervention is of necessity harmful . |
| 27 | I find it difficult to believe that we can improve on trying to establish competitive markets within the framework of a rule of law . |
| 28 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 29 | Foreign firms find it difficult to believe that Japanese costs are really low enough to justify such low prices and there is some evidence that the domestic prices of equivalent goods are higher . |
| 30 | I even found it difficult to believe that she had ever been in cahoots with Mr Broadhurst . |