Example sentences of "is difficult [verb] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to use these data to draw any reliable inferences as to whether the prevalence among the institutional population is increasing . |
| 2 | It is difficult to put these sums into context for there is no knowing what benefit has been achieved compared to what would have resulted from some other social expenditure . |
| 3 | Barthes 's distinction between language and metalanguage depends on a clear distinction between denotative and connotative levels of meaning and yet it is difficult to sustain these as independent categories . |
| 4 | The notion seems a useful one , though it is difficult to confirm these settings scientifically . |
| 5 | It is difficult to reconcile these two interpretations . |
| 6 | But it is difficult to see these factors as amounting to an absolute restriction when put against the equally well recorded government support for overcapacity and inefficient working . |
| 7 | It is difficult to evaluate these innovations . |
| 8 | It is difficult to relate these mortality figures to the good initial prognosis that patients with sub-endocardial infarctions enjoy . |
| 9 | However , since the majority of rapes are not reported to the police , it is difficult to interpret these figures . |
| 10 | It is difficult to believe these comments refer to the same Report as that evaluated in a balanced leader in the Independent ( 16 November 1988 ) under the headline ‘ A blow for literacy ’ . |
| 11 | In practice it is difficult to locate these points , as the foot of the old cliff ( O on Fig. 9.18 ) may be obscured by talus or , more often , modified by erosion , in which case it may have been at A and the former cliff be represented by AH . |
| 12 | In infections with adult worms , the eggs will be found in faeces , but since it is difficult to distinguish these from Heterakis eggs , confirmation must be made by post-mortemm examination of a casualty when the large white worms will be found . |
| 13 | In the UK , and in most European countries , it is difficult to overcome these problems . |