Example sentences of "it is difficult to make " in BNC.

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1 Well , if a thesis that it is difficult to make sense of allows a conclusion that is repugnant , then the rational course would seem to be to take this as another reason for distrusting the thesis : not as a reason for admitting the repugnant conclusion .
2 It is difficult to make a horse 's environment completely safe .
3 Naturally , it is difficult to make direct comparisons with the situation in the United Kingdom because psychosocial problems is a broad category and children who meet this criterion are sheltered by different services , such as education , health , and social services .
4 But it is difficult to make and even more difficult to get taught properly .
5 The wires on telephones are of a type to which it is difficult to make connections but there should be no difficulty if the pieces of screw terminal block are used as shown .
6 It is difficult to make the transition because the normal prerequisite of a finance director is that they must have had board level experience and as a financial controller reporting to a director it 's very difficult to get that . ’
7 In the text of Exodus , however , it is difficult to make such a break .
8 These are features typically found in chordates , although it is difficult to make more precise comparisons .
9 Because of uncertainties in sample dimensions , contact position and current distribution profiles ( if a van der Pauw configuration is applied ) , it is difficult to make an accurate direct determination of the resistivity .
10 But it is difficult to make anything of the sort of entry which assesses the rector at nil and omits the chaplain 's name , implying that he was not in his post .
11 So long as one 's own eyes are fixed on the past , it is difficult to make the point that the past should not be prescriptive for the future .
12 These authors are right to point out that in cross sectional analyses it is difficult to make assumptions of causality .
13 It is difficult to make broader international comparisons in social policy , but Kaim-Caudle ( 1973 ) placed the UK top among ten countries for its health service provision , though in his survey of wider social security policies the top place went more often to other countries , the Netherlands , West Germany and Denmark .
14 It is difficult to make a case that the time lag in getting innovations to the market-place has decreased in recent years .
15 However , the limited extent of this research , combined with the different questions explored by different methods , leave a substantial number of issues on which it is difficult to make definitive statements .
16 It is difficult to make sense of this word here ( since " longevity " means " length of life " , rather than simply " length " , and is difficult to apply , except metaphorically , to a poem ) .
17 It is difficult to make a case , however , for any such mosaic in the west country before c. 170 .
18 It is difficult to make things happen .
19 At the present time , the illiquidity of gamma stocks means that it is difficult to make a market in them , and also brokers find that they can not buy or sell without prices swinging widely in reaction .
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