Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have been difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the scheme had not been available Renshaw says that she would have considered giving up work , which would have been difficult , or considered some other form of childcare , but it was never really necessary to consider the alternatives because of the availability of the career break scheme . |
| 2 | That it may have been difficult for members to attend area sessions , should not rule out the possibility of encouraging collaboration among groups of local boards . |
| 3 | It must have been difficult for the teachers to organize things even before the arrival of the evacuees , who had problems of their own , of course , adjusting to a major change in lifestyle . |
| 4 | It must have been difficult to make it so small . |
| 5 | What type of food did you buy , because it must have been difficult stretching your money out ? |
| 6 | ‘ It must have been difficult for you , hiding Egan when Place was living with his sister . ’ |
| 7 | It must have been difficult for you . ’ |
| 8 | And the , as I say , it must have been difficult to go through a day , between nineteen thirty-nine , and nineteen forty-five without hearing the National Anthem somewhere , somehow . |
| 9 | ‘ I guess it must have been difficult for — for Suzanna to understand . |
| 10 | It might have been difficult to prove that librarians themselves took the initiative for the censorship , although many would have been pleased to make that claim . |
| 11 | It might have been difficult for the headmaster of our school to believe that we were late because of a derailment , but fortunately a teacher of theology at the school , Don Cavalli , travelled on the tram every day , and he was able to explain what had happened , giving us a cast-iron alibi . |
| 12 | It could have been difficult . |
| 13 | A short time ago , it would have been difficult to imagine that the Conservative Party in Parliament would be in open revolt against bishops of the Church of England . |
| 14 | After several months of working full eight-hour shifts , the constables frequently forgot that an outsider was present , or no longer cared , and the fieldworker experienced moments when it would have been difficult to maintain a front . |
| 15 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 16 | It would have been difficult to estimate the extent of this use of cassettes even if the events had not been so emotionally charged . |
| 17 | I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside . |
| 18 | Certainly this method of drawing has not been seen at a later date , and it would have been difficult to produce this quality and style of work in quantity . |
| 19 | It would have been difficult not to qualify for the semi-final , as sixteen were to go through ! |
| 20 | Still , he enjoyed the chairmanship and gets very cross if anyone suggests that it would have been difficult for anyone to have thrown away a Tory victory in post-Falklands Britain with a Labour Party led by Michael Foot . |
| 21 | ‘ There was so much wrong anyway with the performance it would have been difficult to know where to start . ’ |
| 22 | Without demonstrable concern for their welfare and the active promotion of an identity of interests it would have been difficult for a party of landed and industrial power to retain authority ( for an historical survey of this see McKenzie and Silver 1968 pp 42–73 ) . |
| 23 | There was so much rubbish and broken glass littered about anyway that it would have been difficult for anyone to climb out without making a lot of noise . |
| 24 | Griffith could not prepare or test fibres thinner than about a ten thousandth of an inch ( 2.5 m ) and , if he had , it would have been difficult at that time to measure the thickness with any sort of accuracy . |
| 25 | ‘ It would have been difficult for him on his own in a strange country on the other side of the world . |
| 26 | She did n't shake hands — it would have been difficult for her , anyway , sitting in the car — but as I pondered on the word ‘ princess ’ and bowed slightly , she said , ‘ So you are Doctor Masters ? |
| 27 | Of course it would have been difficult for intellectuals to admit that it was precisely their own condemnation and neglect of films which had removed the one buffer that the film industry could have used to protect itself from the onslaught of ‘ the Meddlers and Busybodies ’ . |
| 28 | It did not touch as many people as it does today and it would have been difficult to see precisely what kind of partisan gloss could have been put on the matter . |
| 29 | The King hardly needed to have a net laid for him , but had he done so it would have been difficult to assemble , almost in his own backyard , a more obvious team of trappers . |
| 30 | There was a good deal of shrubbery trailed up the sides and it would have been difficult to see us by a casual glance along the terrace . |