Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to compare the success of different systems , for reasons including the following : |
| 2 | Even when this is done it is difficult to compare the effectiveness of hospital units with perinatal mortality rates because of the increasingly small subset of perinatal deaths that are amenable to medical intervention . |
| 3 | At this point , it is sufficient to point out that it is difficult to see a link between the themes of the above clauses , or even between a rheme and a following theme , for instance . |
| 4 | The answer is that it is difficult to see a conspiracy theory at work . |
| 5 | Phillips added : ‘ The players and staff are 100 per cent behind Barry Fry and find it difficult to see a future for themselves and the club without him . |
| 6 | Her chin rested on her chest , so it was difficult to see the expression on her face . |
| 7 | It is also difficult to see the consistency between his reference to sex as fine and noble and his claim that only complete renunciation of sex leads to the realization of God . |
| 8 | He sat forward tensely in his seat , as if he found it difficult to see the road , and frequently wiped at the windscreen with his handkerchief . |
| 9 | On the negative side it is difficult to see the advantage for Bergen Bank , which is getting mixed up with one of the most troublesome members of the already unfortunate Norwegian banking sector , where 1989 loss estimates of NKr1.6bn have been announced . |
| 10 | With no evidence that it would improve standards , it is difficult to see the advantage of turning the system upside down once more . |
| 11 | De la Mare felt Limb could not be received because it was British policy to sustain the Moscow agreement and it would be difficult to see the representative of a leading opponent of the government . |
| 12 | It is not difficult to see the connection between the former tradition and the stereotyped model of physical science — a model which , Hudson says , ‘ physical scientists themselves have long abandoned ’ . |
| 13 | When considering the ‘ stars of the seasons ’ some allowances have to be made ; obviously the view from , say , Britain and the northern United States will be different from that in Southern Europe or the southern United States ; for example it is very difficult to see the Scorpion 's ‘ sting ’ from London , but easy enough from Athens or San Francisco . |
| 14 | Pannell Kerr Forster 's Tony Foreman cautioned that it was difficult to see an exit route from property zone trusts and wealthy clients were inclined to put £40,000 in the BES before considering such schemes . |
| 15 | In pollution control work , however , there is none of the sacredness of the policing of the traditional code ( Lemert , 1972 ; Manning , 1977 ) , and it is more difficult to dramatize the threat of pollution than to portray the symbolic assaults on the community from criminals , addicts , vandals , and other sinister figures on the fringes of the moral order ( Manning , 1980 ) , notwithstanding the missionary zeal of some proponents of regulatory reform in the USA . |
| 16 | In practice , of course , it would be very difficult to implement a policy of this nature . |
| 17 | ‘ It must be difficult to sustain a romance at such a distance . |
| 18 | It is difficult to sustain the argument that feudal lords ultimately owed their position to biological superiority when a son , no matter what his biological make-up , inherited the status of his father ! |
| 19 | if we lose out the argument that we should put in for some increase next year , and and we think it 's going to be very difficult to sustain an argument , |
| 20 | It is difficult to ascribe the popularity of the DC to any particular feature , and its continuing use is probably related to the combination of desirable or acceptable features . |
| 21 | This is very attractive farmland , wide open fields , very intensively farmed , erm it 's very difficult to spot the aerodrome from driving round the area at all , erm some of it 's been taken up and incorporated into fields . |
| 22 | The board says that if the animals are still there it may seek a court order to remove them , though church law would make it difficult to evict the Reverend himself . |
| 23 | It was not difficult to recollect the route Carlo and Cheta had taken . |
| 24 | It would be difficult to hit the ball close since a big bunker , cut into the front left edge of the green , was a threat , especially since the fairway sloped slightly towards it . |
| 25 | The pike is perhaps in a similar difficulty as a human who is trying to hit a moving tennis ball when someone throws a second ball across his visual field ; it makes it more difficult to hit the ball . |
| 26 | It is difficult to categorize the team alongside the previously mentioned sportsmen simply because it was more a comedy outfit than a competitive unit . |
| 27 | He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up . |
| 28 | ‘ Some lead such active lives that we found it difficult to arrange a time for interview , while others are so isolated and lonely that our interviewers felt guilty about terminating the interview and leaving them to themselves . ’ |
| 29 | The Danes might find it difficult to swing the ball … but they certainly know how to swing . |
| 30 | Now , sometimes it is extremely difficult to kill a man . |