Example sentences of "[pron] [is] difficult [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know , it 's difficult to see that one can make erm , you know , a clear connection if one says well , you know , if the undergraduate is n't sick should we sort of put up with them being particularly rowdy or generally rather offensive , and I think that there could perceivably be problems with attempting to identify , you know , a disciplinary effect offence rather , as lying within the victims . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's difficult to see any light at the end of the tunnel , ’ says Crossman . |
| 3 | I think it 's difficult to say that , but erm we feel that the British protection was very important for the erm sovereignty , for maintaining the external sovereignty of Kuwait , but our internal affairs has always been within the Kuwaiti community . |
| 4 | I did wonder whether we ought to call a , a , a , sort of emergency meeting of Harlow Health Action , but I was away myself until last few days , so it 's difficult to do that , so what we 've are , I 've agreed with Dave , the secretary , we 've produced a leaflet , which is based on one of the Federations leaflet , it gives the reason to be against opting out . |
| 5 | So it 's difficult to challenge that kind of supposition at that age . |
| 6 | It 's difficult , though , because if you talk to adolescent boys in schools they are violently opposed to women 's liberation , or they hate the name women 's liberation , because they are very defensive perhaps about their own masculinity at that age , and their own masculinity is defined very much in terms of being superior to girls and having mums who wait on them at home , so it 's difficult to challenge that kind of supposition at that age . |
| 7 | Next to him , the dear old thing , Blowers , at least persevered to the end , but did admit finally , ‘ Gosh , it 's difficult to identify these chaps . |
| 8 | When you have got the needle in , it 's a battle to get the syringe on , and then it 's difficult to get any blood out of him because he 's so tense . ’ |
| 9 | I would like , Chairman , to know , because er , it always seems to me that unnecessary money is spent in , in the American lead , so it 's difficult to get any money . |
| 10 | The difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher , and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 11 | Really it 's a problem of time and resources erm the difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 12 | I mean it 's , it 's difficult to bring those two close enough . |
| 13 | It is difficult to persuade those who exercise authority in conventional terms that there are other forms of power than theirs : more diffuse but more pervasive ; less aggressive but more enduring , to be round in small towns and rural villages . |
| 14 | It is difficult to define this kind of skiing which ranges from skiing down the edge of the piste in the powder which the pistemachine does not reach , to touring from hut to hut far away from ski resorts . |
| 15 | It is difficult to define this atmosphere which I find exists for me in many of our traditional buildings and churches . |
| 16 | It is difficult to draw any hard conclusions from this , especially when one of the Catholics , Diego de Zuñiga , who taught philosophy and theology at the University of Salamanca , adopted the Copernican system in the context of expounding Job 9:6 . |
| 17 | While it is difficult to draw any definite conclusions from such bald statistics on recorded crime , they clearly posed a major embarrassment for a Government pledged to reduce the crime rate . |
| 18 | Despite the evidence put forward by Soviet historians to assert a Marxist tradition in Latin America antedating the Russian revolution , it is difficult to draw any conclusion other than that Marxism as a basis for worker organisation became a significant force in the region , with few exceptions , in the wake of the Bolshevik triumph . |
| 19 | It is difficult to use these data to draw any reliable inferences as to whether the prevalence among the institutional population is increasing . |
| 20 | It is difficult to evaluate this very general statement . |
| 21 | It is difficult to evaluate these innovations . |
| 22 | It is difficult to ignore this combined perspective on Anglo-Saxon society in the early eighth century and its implication that it had entered ‘ a highly unstable phase ’ . |
| 23 | It is difficult to resist this view because of the great successes of medicine , public health , education , welfare and technology . |
| 24 | It is difficult to dismiss such insights when they come from 81-year-old Drucker , credited with having invented the concept of ‘ management ’ in The End of Economic Man in 1939 . |
| 25 | It is difficult to characterize such relations as ‘ capitalist ’ , or to regard them as oppressive : most of the rich men of the Zuwaya managed their businesses in this way , getting a good return on money laid out , but creating wealth for poorer fellow tribesmen and a few others in the process . |
| 26 | It is difficult to describe this body accurately . |
| 27 | It is difficult to give any general definition of management as what constitutes management varies greatly between jobs and between organisations . |
| 28 | The notion seems a useful one , though it is difficult to confirm these settings scientifically . |
| 29 | It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile . |
| 30 | Indeed , it is difficult to justify many of the cases where tapping is strongly suspected on the ground that it was necessary for the detection of really serious crime or to deal with major subversion , even allowing for the very wide definition of subversion announced by Lord Harris of Greenwich in 1975 when he said that |