Example sentences of "difficult [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes find it difficult to believe that other lesbians will accept me as one of them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the provincial press , and especially the local weeklies , it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare . |
| 4 | However , it is difficult to believe that sufficient quantities of suitable substances could have appeared at the Cytherean surface to mop up anywhere near the amount of oxygen that would be liberated from an Earth-like quantity of water . |
| 5 | The report admitted : ‘ There are problems associated with this since it is difficult to ensure that feral pigeons only are taken since some birds may be ringed and belong to pigeon fanciers . |
| 6 | At precisely the same moment at which central government concerns to reduce spending on the welfare state became dominant , it became more difficult to ensure that local authorities would do what was required . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , it would be difficult to argue that single parents are rebelling against the conventional family form in principle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mrs Porter said it was difficult to say that local authorities should help Victim Support , but added : ‘ It would be nice if we could be considered because of our vital service . ’ |
| 11 | For isotropic elastic materials it is not difficult to show that internal pressurization allows the determination of the plane strain bulk modulus A torsion test will give a fourth elastic constant , the longitudinal shear modulus . |