Example sentences of "difficult [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to see why they would be deterred any more than fined traffic-offenders are deterred ; they can calculate rationally the cost of future fines and build that into any contemplation of irregular and illegal behaviour . |
| 2 | But it was difficult to see why they would , given that everyone seemed to agree with the current policy . |
| 3 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 4 | However , it is difficult to see how they might generate significant welfare losses ( and , indeed , may involve some welfare gains — see Waterston ) , unless practised by firms that have significant market power , in which case they may be used to exploit and sustain a dominant position . |
| 5 | The Arab world has now broken up into three separate components and it is difficult to see how they can be reassembled . |
| 6 | First of all , if the records are not up to date — and it is difficult to see how they could be up to date during high level activity — the source of the information is missing . |
| 7 | Mrs Marston actually came to the town on the Bishop 's Castle Railway with her parents when she was a young girl , and when we formed the BCRS she told us that it is difficult to see how they could have made the move , complete with furniture , in any other way in those days . |
| 8 | It 's difficult to see how they will ever better it . |
| 9 | In the case of the other three functions , it will be argued that it is difficult to see how they could be treated as separate : for example , the placement of tonic stress is closely linked to the presentation of ‘ new ’ information , while the question/statement distinction and the indication of contrast seem to be equally important in grammar and discourse . |
| 10 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 11 | Ruth hurried after him , her heart going in great jolts ; the rain came down bewilderingly , making it difficult to know where they were . |
| 12 | They can be irritatingly slow to publish , and it is often difficult to know how they spend their time . |
| 13 | And it is difficult to know how they will be heard . |
| 14 | It was not difficult to guess where they might be supported . |
| 15 | Although the agricultural departments may make competent judgements about the suitability of hill land for agriculture or forestry it is difficult to comprehend how they might also make an assessment of the potential wider impact of a change in land use without considerably more evidence than is currently available . |
| 16 | Boeing had done their best to keep tabs on which aircraft had been sold to whom but some were no longer in service or had been damaged and discarded while one or two had even lost their identity , so that it was difficult to trace where they were and under whose jurisdiction they fell . |
| 17 | Given the variety of motif etc. in the Broad Street , Halstock , Bacchus and Leopard and Bishopstone pavements , it is difficult to imagine how they could have grown out of the Chedworth — Tockington sequence . |
| 18 | Fall-rise and rise-fall tones , however , can be quite difficult to recognise when they are extended over tails , since their characteristic pitch movements are often broken up or distorted by the structure of the syllables they occur on . |
| 19 | Many people who care or who are cared for find it difficult to understand why they can not get the resources for that care when such vast amounts go towards people who are in residential care . |
| 20 | Geologists , mapping the site , found it difficult to understand how they could have been shaped by the normal forces of erosion . |
| 21 | I find it difficult to understand how they are going to carry on experimental work at other depots that are n't really equipped to carry out experimental work , and so for that reason , I mean , there 's a great deal of concern that these cuts are n't rather more cosmetic that they 've been made out to be . |
| 22 | You ca n't , it 's difficult to believe why they do n't charge full whack . |
| 23 | It is difficult to explain why they would have maintained such popularity — for it is said that Cooper produced a painting a day — over shifts in market and social circumstances . |
| 24 | With many of our everyday experiences of natural events it is difficult to envisage how they could be other than they are . |