Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's through the , it 's difficult to lose them again now , I do n't know , I do n't know . |
| 2 | As a result , fossil bone accumulations are usually so much more fragmentary than undamaged pellet assemblages that it is difficult to compare them . |
| 3 | It is a real test of golf and it is difficult to compare it to any other course I have played . ’ |
| 4 | compounded by the fact that the web of this disease spreads ever outward into society and incorporates many different and apparently conflictual sectors of the socio-economic and political systems such that it becomes very difficult to combat its influence |
| 5 | It is not difficult to see whose side she is on ! |
| 6 | It was in any event difficult to see what compromise could satisfy both Buenos Aires and London . |
| 7 | In a way , there is no terrible indignity in this — it is not the tennis equivalent of Randolph Turpin 's sordid tour of the halls as a wrestler — but even so , it is difficult to see what Borg is aiming to get out of this renewed struggle . |
| 8 | ‘ It is difficult to see what more we could have done , ’ said one gloomy Labour frontbencher on Friday . |
| 9 | In spite of all its anomalies , it is difficult to see what other system could have retained even the present small population . |
| 10 | Indeed in any civilised country it is difficult to see what other view could be held . |
| 11 | They have also been attacked by the courts , with the result that it is difficult to see what practical effect such clauses might be thought to have . |
| 12 | It is difficult to see what errors are left to make ! |
| 13 | This is not only because it has a weak case — as we show elsewhere ( this issue , p 76 ) , there are certainly some doubts about the validity of the CEGB 's claims that Sizewell B will reduce the cost of electricity in England and Wales by allowing the board to burn less coal — but also because it is difficult to see what the inspector can say about economics when he comes to writing his final report . |
| 14 | It is difficult to see what other aeroplane could deliver the combination of ruggedness , economy of operation , short-field capability and safety that this unusual aircraft can . |
| 15 | It was not accidental that the report of the committee later included the remark , ‘ It is difficult to see what private or public purpose is served by the exaction of untrue confessions , and it is a danger to be constantly guarded against . ’ |
| 16 | The day was overcast and it was becoming difficult to see what he was typing , so , about noon , when imagination began to fail him , he walked up to the house to inquire from Dorothy whether Isobel would mind if he had better lighting installed in the garage , provided he paid far it . |
| 17 | It is not difficult to see what are the implications of the ‘ transporting ideas ’ model of linguistic communication . |
| 18 | In the case of the elephant and rhino it is difficult to see what the Fund could have done , other than supply anti-poaching equipment and finance for wardens . |
| 19 | It may turn out that the differences are an artefact of the methods used in different laboratories , but it is difficult to see what the relevant differences may be . |
| 20 | But it is difficult to see what this could mean other than that some deviance , at least , would not have occurred had it not been for the societal response — that is , had been caused by it . |
| 21 | With Windows NT still a gleam in Bill Gates ' eye , OS/2 2.0 can lay claim to the goodness high ground , and it is difficult to see what more IBM could have done to make it electable — its erstwhile friends would say that it has cynically ditched all its principles — of closed systems , tight central control , the whole ‘ nanny knows best and you 'd better believe it ’ ethos that served the company so well for so long , and led to a string of successes at the ballot box in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 22 | difficult to see what it is . |
| 23 | As height is genetically determined , it is difficult to see what it has to do with an acquired goal of achievement , except where parents or teachers convince tall children that they are achievers . |
| 24 | It is not difficult to see what has been keeping the ASH office busy over the past three months . |
| 25 | It is difficult to see what such a procedure might be . |
| 26 | It is submitted that these conclusions are wholly unjustified ; it has been rejected by other United States courts and it is difficult to see what purpose would be served by the inclusion of Article 10(a) in a convention on service of process if that was not its subject-matter . |
| 27 | The judges were convinced that the fear of capital punishment was a real deterrent , and it was difficult to see what effective alternative punishment could be inflicted on murderers . |
| 28 | It was increasingly difficult to see what the party line was : the Chief Whip , Lord Edmund Talbot , had summoned Robert Sanders back from war service and after his return in May 1917 he was pressed into the party 's service . |
| 29 | If the teacher had had no obvious part in planning or organising an activity , it was difficult to see what might be learnt from it that would be of help to other teachers . |
| 30 | It is not difficult to see what such neurons are telling the brain . |