Example sentences of "difficulty of [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hesitated again , dismayed by the difficulty of delineating such fleeting , unshaped feelings in words . |
| 2 | But here it must be said that John Calvin wanted a weekly communion and the only reason that Knox did n't follow suit in Scotland was the difficulty of organising such events in the rural parishes with a paucity of reformed clergy available to celebrate the sacrament . |
| 3 | A catalogue of regulations mentioned in a handbook published for headmen in 1873 illustrates the difficulty of enforcing such rules without a reliable rural bureaucracy . |
| 4 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
| 5 | The difficulty of finding such clearly defined ‘ literate ’ and ‘ non-literate ’ societies has already been alluded to and Goody himself recognises that there are few societies today not touched in some way by literate practices . |
| 6 | Although most teachers would recognize the desirability of appraising their classroom practice in terms of questions like those listed above , the difficulty of applying such a process to one 's own discourse should not be underestimated . |
| 7 | The difficulty of solving such problems may be used to justify solutions based on a ‘ new technological fix ’ ( rightly dismissed by Goldblat elsewhere in this volume ) such as ‘ Star Wars ’ , which simply involves a new whirl of the arms race spiral . |