Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to see that as anything other than an attempt to intimidate the BBC . |
| 2 | Without wanting to appear too sanguine , and without trivializing the persistent phenomenon of right-wing extremism and the need to maintain vigilance against it , the full realization of the responsibility which Hitler bears for the untold agonies suffered by millions has so discredited everything he stood for in the eyes of sane persons everywhere that , except in circumstances beyond the scope of our realistic imagination , it is difficult to see that there could be a resurrection or a new variant of the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ , with its power to capture the imagination of millions . |
| 3 | It is not difficult to see that a smallholding can not support a large mortgage as well as a family ! |
| 4 | This is a sad state of affairs , particularly to be deplored when it is not too difficult to see that a church organisation might well find itself put into the category of a nationalised business . |
| 5 | It is not difficult to see that the … power and extent of the growth of the productive forces , have reached their highest point in precisely the United States . |
| 6 | A jerking pop star was wielding his guitar as the credits rolled , his parodic sexual gyrations so grotesque that it was difficult to see that even the besotted young could find them erotic . |
| 7 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |
| 8 | But , with the Government in turmoil and the crisis over the arms sales to Iraq adding to its troubles , it was n't difficult to see that Mr Lawrence was exactly where he wanted to be . |
| 9 | It was the smart thing to do down Hollywood , but it is not difficult to see that the venom and enjoyment that went into those attacks of the 1920s tell us more about the social values of elites and in particular of intellectuals than they do about movies as such . |
| 10 | At any rate , it was difficult to see that the FAA had any good reason not to implement the very important recommendations made by their own US investigating authority , the NTSB , after the Windsor accident , especially as the RLD had gone to the trouble of flying to Los Angeles to make their point . |
| 11 | On closer inspection , however , it is not difficult to see that this is a rather mild counter-movement , one of those smaller eddies that spring up again and again from the many-layered structure of historical change within every stage of more comprehensive processes . |
| 12 | Now it is not difficult to see that ( a , b ) = b , r1 ) ( exercise 13 ) and that similarly |
| 13 | It 's fairly clear when you would use a book or an Overhead Projector or a magazine picture in your teaching and it 's not difficult to see that video makes a different contribution . |
| 14 | Sometimes the purpose is simply intimidatory , as with the racist march , rather than an attempt to coerce persons into taking or not pursuing any particular course of action , and it is difficult to see that conditions could be imposed on a ‘ racist ’ march on this ground alone . |
| 15 | That proposition presupposes that if you make a reduction in the district figures , then you must have an idea what the district contribution towards the Greater York figure is , er and I find it difficult to see that you can have , if you have a new settlement , if you have a new settlement the C provision for the new settlement floating in this table , erm but can I just say before we adjourn for coffee , that I really would like to have some very firm answers to the questions which are posed under issue two , er and particularly about two D and that is specific guidance on the location of the new settlement . |
| 16 | In theft terms it is difficult to see that one of the rights of the customer has been adversely interfered with . |
| 17 | It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place . |
| 18 | It was not difficult to spot that some of the products in our portfolio could never again be profitable . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , but my tongue runs away with me and I find it difficult to realize that Matt is dead . ’ |
| 20 | After recent mass arrests and tortures in Beijing , it has become even more difficult to claim that the government is unaware of the excesses committed in Lhasa . |
| 21 | Its programmes are much the most susceptible to ‘ salami slicing ’ , since it is difficult to claim that the end of the world will come if the Army receives , say , ninety instead of a hundred tank replacements in a particular year . |
| 22 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 23 | Second , even if straightforward authoritarianism and minimisation of wages are assumed to be universal features of capitalist rationality , it is difficult to claim that this ‘ rationality ’ is uniformly imposed in practice as a function of the ‘ undisputed authority of the capitalist ’ ( Marx ) . |
| 24 | Thus we have a situation where data is not transformed into information , ie what staff need is information that addresses a specific need or objective of their job , and what typically they receive is a mass of data not properly tailored to their needs and so difficult to penetrate that it falls into disuse . |
| 25 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 26 | The Teddy Boys first emerged , for example , from the slum neighbourhoods of working-class London — and it would be difficult to pretend that communities such as the Elephant and Castle were blessed with ‘ affluence ’ , or anything approaching it . |
| 27 | Although it was difficult to pretend that a former member of the Rhodesian Special Air Service was on a par in purely military terms with a goat-herd from Bolivia , the fact that both were starting afresh made administration that much easier . |
| 28 | As I sat just outside the entrance to the trench it was very difficult to accept that Taff was dead . |
| 29 | Even if we now find it difficult to accept that these were real or substantial recompenses for the life she had chosen to live we can not reasonably question that she did . |
| 30 | Without such explanation , of course , it makes it difficult to accept that the same things really are taking place in the different spheres . |