Example sentences of "it [vb -s] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is where it gets difficult to explain . |
| 2 | This is another area where it appears difficult to reconcile demographic and housing trends . |
| 3 | In view of the contradictions which beset historical societies , it appears difficult to explain their survival . |
| 4 | It seems difficult to explain so obvious an assertion in simpler terms . |
| 5 | Such language seems vacuous to some , but if we are to comprehend the nature of the arts in particular , being is a concept which it seems difficult to do without . |
| 6 | A problem with this point of view is that there is in fact no evidence of descent groups having ever existed without these two levels and it seems difficult to treat all documented cases as transitions from a stage for which there is no evidence . |
| 7 | But it seems difficult to refute the Soviet contention that in Russia the advance of industrial capitalism , rather than fostering moderation , reformism and concern with purely economic goals , was nourishing an increasingly radical and politically conscious proletariat . |
| 8 | It seems difficult to argue that these are insignificant remnants of a forgotten tradition for a composer who so meticulously marked his scores ; surely these differences must imply either changes of tempo or a relationship with the previous and/or succeeding tempo ? |
| 9 | It seems difficult to write behavioural objectives for this domain alone , as affective functioning is always interwoven with cognitive functioning . |
| 10 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 11 | One major problem is that if the offence is defined so as to include all touchings to which the victim does not consent , it seems difficult to exclude everyday physical contact with others . |
| 12 | On the whole it seems difficult to believe they are very important . |
| 13 | I am always told they you should have a trim every 4–6 weeks to get rid of all the split ends but it seems difficult to grow my hair when it 's constantly being cut . |
| 14 | Maybe it was not direct aid and did not have a serious effect , but it seems difficult to imagine any sportsman , black or white , entering sport entirely unassisted . |
| 15 | It seems difficult to imagine the next target . |
| 16 | It seems difficult to imagine how this could come about . |
| 17 | It seems difficult to imagine it translating even across the Mersey . |
| 18 | However , in so far as their purpose is purely redistributive , it seems difficult to provide a rationale for price subsidies or in-kind transfers rather than cash transfers , and yet these latter forms of assistance are extremely important components of public expenditure ( see , e.g. Brennan and Pincus 1983 ) . |
| 19 | A word of caution is required because if everyone is working on a sub-problem then it becomes difficult to tackle the whole problem in a novel way . |
| 20 | Where Federman and Sukenick replace finished story with the process of narrating so that it becomes difficult to say what their novels are ‘ about ’ , Rudolph Wurlitzer pursues a rather different task in his fiction . |
| 21 | Since this is inextricably bound up with women 's position in society as the prime providers of such tending , it becomes difficult to say whether the depressed status of such work is a result of a system of male domination of women or whether such work has been allocated to women as part of that process . |
| 22 | And in such a situation it becomes difficult to say whether the temporary worker is brought in because of a shortage of permanent staff or because there is ( now ) a once-off task to be performed . |
| 23 | Some seepages can be sampled if there is a noticeable flow , but many are so insubstantial in quantity that sampling is not possible and it becomes difficult to talk of a ‘ discharge ’ . |
| 24 | It becomes difficult to see how discourses can change . |
| 25 | When posed in such stark but accurate terms it becomes difficult to see why this is supposed to amount to a distinct moral justification for punishment . |
| 26 | But if this is indeed the case , it becomes difficult to explain how significant individuating references can be made to anything that is subject to change ; or indeed to make clear sense of any spatiotemporal order concepts . |
| 27 | A question asked early in the interview may affect answers to subsequent questions , and if this order were to be altered it becomes difficult to detect the effect this might have on the replies . |
| 28 | Technological hazards are more unpredictable and may be extremely rare , so that it becomes difficult to use probability concepts to quantify risk , especially those which rely on notions of relative frequency . |
| 29 | You can drive along a motorway for years and see nothing , but once you learn the quivering shape above the verge is a hovering kestrel looking for voles in the short grass , it becomes difficult to pass a kestrel ever again without mentally noting what it is , what it is doing and why it is there . |
| 30 | In many cases , this loads down an essay with so many notes that it becomes difficult to read . |