Example sentences of "it is difficult to avoid the " in BNC.

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1 It is difficult to avoid the feeling that this , one of his first university essays , is purely subjective .
2 Since brain damage can produce these very precise differences between patients , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that there is one part of the brain that has the precise function of carrying out each piece of information processing that is specified within the cognitive model .
3 It is difficult to avoid the comparison with present day Germany in relation to the other states of the EC and the quotation goes some way to explaining the motives for closer integration .
4 It is difficult to avoid the feeling that the evidence against the arrested person was distinctly shaky — but all the judges thought it enough to justify a reasonable suspicion .
5 Although all denominations within Christian and other churches have provided a measure of religious service for many people , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that this is because such people have been unable to find an acceptable alternative .
6 But it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that satyāgraha does involve some coercion or compulsion when practised in certain circumstances .
7 It is difficult to avoid the impression that we , as a profession , and the Institute in particular , have so far been too willing to accept unwarranted criticism in the past and that we must respond far more effectively in future if we are to limit the damage caused by corporate failures .
8 ( Even so , Valentin 's marriage did not survive and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that its atmosphere must have been far from normal .
9 Casting one 's eyes over the palaces and lodges In which they lived , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Nicolae and Elena had stayed in one over-decorated and garish hotel too many .
10 It is difficult to avoid the impression that he wanted to still Western protests about the destruction of Romania 's heritage with this dramatic act of transferring churches from one site to another , but was also aware that within the foreseeable future the physical structures of the church would crumble into dust .
11 In the light , therefore , of the deteriorating performance of capitalist economies and the chorus of criticism which has emerged of the market economy , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that something important has begun to go wrong with capitalism as we now know it .
12 It is difficult to avoid the further thought that the given characterization of consciousness is elliptical , and that when it is filled in , as it must be , we are no further ahead , but have our definiendum turning up in the definiens .
13 In all the circumstances , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that in this country , at the level of the Court of Appeal ( see , in particular , the decisions of that court in Brocklebank Ltd. v. The King [ 1925 ] 1 K.B .
14 Overall , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that high tax rates do reduce labour participation , certainly for poor households doing unpleasant jobs and for women .
15 But with a date of construction for the wall extending well into the fourth century , and a date now being assigned for the general run of external towers somewhat earlier than that previously postulated in the Theodosian reconstruction of British towns and cities , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that both may be contemporary .
16 Although his statements about Cnut 's piety find ample confirmation elsewhere ( see Chapter 4 ) , it is difficult to avoid the impression that this account of Cnut is simply a stock description of a good Christian king , intended to reflect as much credit upon Emma as possible .
17 It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that with regard to the explicit curriculum , RE has to fight for its life — constant vigilance is the necessary price it pays for retaining any foothold at all in a curriculum groaning under the weight of other priorities .
18 But this seems extremely unlikely : it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that we are observing a development of centralised designs from regular grid arrangements .
19 An overall poverty of colour , and the use of slightly larger ( but still well-cut ) tesserae in mosaic 7 , produce many of the contrasts of this mosaic with mosaic C. The latter , therefore , remains a more accomplished design , but it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that some of the same craftsmen and some identical plans or ideas were employed at Verulamium .
20 As another type C arrangement indeed , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the latter is of a similar period to that of the London mosaic .
21 Indeed , at Newton St. Loe , when considering the absence of some conventional attributes of the western Orphic and associated geometric pavements ( and the presence of some notably contrasting characteristics ) , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the mosaics were influenced as much by developments to the south as to the north .
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