Example sentences of "difficult [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to see how conduct could be said to be ‘ used towards ’ another person of whose existence one was oblivious . |
| 2 | Indeed , it is difficult to see how knowledge would advance if people did not get on with ‘ normal ’ work much of the time . |
| 3 | Not only are there problems in making relevance judgments on surrogate documents , i.e. , titles of books ; but also the interactive nature of the search process whereby the query may be reformulated makes it very difficult to see how recall can be applied . |
| 4 | No quarrel with that one — but it 's difficult to see how testing , per se , is going to achieve it . |
| 5 | Freud thought it was difficult to see how communism could be generalized to the whole world , unless national rivalries could cope with aggression without full-scale wars . |
| 6 | So it is not difficult to see how TB could spread from badger to cow . ’ |
| 7 | In practice , it is difficult to see how learning theories could explain crime without any reference to invention . |
| 8 | It is difficult to see how punishment could be justified on purely retributivist grounds consistently with the positive freedom principle , and the same would seem to go for expressive denunciation as a general justification of the system . |
| 9 | It is not difficult to see how role play and drama can be used to achieve many of the Attainment Targets for Speaking and Listening in the English National Curriculum documents . |
| 10 | Its gon na be mighty difficult to find out info from past weeks . |
| 11 | Erm , I 've got some more statistics here that er right , I mean there have been , the reason why it 's difficult to pick out trend , long-run trends in agricultural prices is because , in very sort of , erm , short periods throughout any long , long sample alright , there will be very high agricultural prices . |
| 12 | China 's conservation efforts have received a good deal of attention and it has been difficult to sort out myth from reality . |
| 13 | It is obviously more difficult to set aside time for meal planning if you happen to be going through a heavy time at work . |
| 14 | When you become more proficient , you may want to retrim ; at this stage correct it with the stick , or just let it crab , since this will help to reduce problems during the more difficult slowing down phase . |
| 15 | You might find , like her , that it can be difficult to divide up salt reduction into many small steps . |
| 16 | It is very difficult to weigh up economy with convenience . |
| 17 | In the early stages it is very difficult to fill up time . |
| 18 | It has not proved straightforward to obtain the services of appropriate staff , and although work has now commenced in each of the areas mentioned , it is difficult to predict when development will be complete and thus give a firm date as to when information will be available to allow colleges to plan for the introduction of new courses in session 1989–90 . |
| 19 | Since it is difficult to predict how rainfall will alter , it is uncertain which countries will benefit and which will suffer . |
| 20 | However , the scarcity of craters on the maria makes it difficult to understand how lava could have been extensively fractured leave alone reduced to dust . |
| 21 | But at other times it may be very difficult to single out policy issues that divide the parties . |
| 22 | In theory this sort of transitory demand from a minority of the community should not be allowed to influence selection decisions , but in practice librarians have often found it difficult to ignore long waiting lists entirely when selecting new books . |
| 23 | He says that it is ‘ difficult to say when omnipotence becomes powerlessness ’ . |
| 24 | On the other hand it 'd be difficult to say well mum I just do n't want to see you and that smelly old woman , I 'm sure you 'll understand . |
| 25 | Among other things that it is the teacher who has all the good ideas , thereby making it difficult to hand over responsibility for decision making to the children . |