Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a courageous policy , which became increasingly difficult to sustain in face of the violence to which southern blacks were subjected . |
| 2 | Some practitioners complained that it was to difficult to estimate in advance and could lead to aggressive underpricing which may affect the quality of the work . |
| 3 | It is therefore conceptually useful to distinguish between what the mass media tell us to think about — this is signalled by the events they cover — and what specific attitudes or opinions we have to adopt towards those events , though clearly these distinctions may be difficult to uphold in practice . |
| 4 | Organic manure might be animal or vegetable derived although both are difficult to obtain in quantity in a modern society . |
| 5 | You see , when you are working in plan like this it is difficult to bear in mind that machine table heights can work in your favour and they can also work against you . |
| 6 | He found it very difficult to work in collaboration with others . |
| 7 | However , as some women do n't realise that they are pregnant , experience no pain and simply assume that they are having period problems , the condition can be extremely difficult to detect in time . |
| 8 | Process aspects of mathematics may prove to be particularly difficult to express in criterion statements , but little work has yet been undertaken in this area . |
| 9 | It is difficult to imagine in detail what such landscapes looked like , how they were used by people and in what sort of activities these people were engaged . |
| 10 | Furthermore the exact economic impact of land distribution is difficult to identify in test because output is the function of many other factors besides land distribution per se . |
| 11 | In the face of this central problem , the valuable work that has gone on in recent years in narratology , and other aspects of fictional form , is curiously difficult to apply in practice . |
| 12 | ( There are signs that they are beginning to view it as legitimate , in theory , in their dealings with Christian lowlanders , although they still find it difficult to apply in practice . ) |
| 13 | The first criterion is frequently difficult to apply in practice , but it is conceptually important . |
| 14 | to increase flexibility on some time limited tolerances which are difficult to apply in practice ; |
| 15 | Although widely used , these categories are often difficult to apply in practice . |
| 16 | The problem with this way of putting down the strategy is that the sense/reason/emotion division is difficult to handle in practice , and there is no clear guide to the balance required between the three categories . |
| 17 | However , the techniques are still difficult to use in practice for arbitrary initial data . |
| 18 | it 's not like my brother did in his physics degree where he sort of ended up getting twelve percent overall in his second year and then took the year again and got six percent erm that 's very difficult to do in psychology erm |
| 19 | This is what the evidence suggests since , while the tempo of mergers and acquisitions ( both domestic and cross-border ) has been rising rapidly , it is also apparent that some industries have been engaged in divesting themselves of activities which are peripheral or difficult to manage in order to concentrate on areas of strength . |
| 20 | Sir Richard Doll , who first discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer , said he could understand that even doctors who smoked found it difficult to quit in spite of the dangers to health . |
| 21 | In practice , therefore , the size of the money multiplier will vary and is thus difficult to predict in advance . |
| 22 | But it has also illustrated that our future world is not just difficult to predict in practice ; it is also theoretically impossible . |
| 23 | Thus the warming and the movement of water help to give rise to climate , which is immensely complex ; and the day-to-day fluctuations which are known as ‘ weather ’ are extraordinarily difficult to predict in detail , more than a few hours ahead . |
| 24 | Conversely , an ad which is difficult to recall in detail , but ( say ) highly emotive and therefore , probably , rather effective , would score rather badly . |
| 25 | This refusal is difficult to understand in view of the fact that the trades in question appear to have been adequately controlled and caused no nuisance . |
| 26 | African Fish Eagles are not an endangered species at the moment but are very difficult to breed in captivity , so it 's quite an achievement for the birds of prey centre . |
| 27 | The question of whether an authority is exceeding its power in imposing a particular condition on a planning permission — ultra vires , as the law puts it — and what happens when ultra vires , is easily stated but difficult to determine in practice . |
| 28 | It was very difficult to keep in working order , and when the emperor Charles V saw it in Pavia in 1529 it needed repair . |
| 29 | George Wigg was a remarkable man but very difficult to keep in check . |
| 30 | It 's difficult to keep in touch with friends and I know I ca n't go wild socially . |