Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 2 | for it is difficult to see how the native could have any interest in the project of unveiling what can go on existing only if it remains veiled . |
| 3 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 4 | Without the possibility , then , of altering one 's perceptual inputs at will it is difficult to see how the information provided by the input systems could ever be centered upon a self , a self that is not just a repository of information , but something which addresses itself to reality and for whom reality is centred upon itself . |
| 5 | You may say that it is refutable and so it is empirical ; but then — see below — our criteria for cognisance are so much bound up with what the subject can do that it is difficult to see how we could assess the cognisance of a totally passive creature . ) |
| 6 | It is also difficult to see how such a policy will ensure continuity of specialist care , for instance through outpatients , after a distantly-resident elderly person has been discharged from hospital . |
| 7 | It is difficult to see how anyone could notice the absence of white meat or fish with such an unending variety of tastes set before them . |
| 8 | ‘ You feed , clean , groom and exercise him — it 's not difficult to see how the bond develops . ’ |
| 9 | Yet , unless a real emergency should occur , it was difficult to see how such a government might be brought about . |
| 10 | The 26-valve GTi pales into insignificance against this car and it 's difficult to see how the three-door Rallye road car could convincingly better this Golf stablemate . |
| 11 | In Cato ( 1976 ) the Court of Appeal was prepared to hold that the offence of possessing controlled drugs was sufficient , together with the act of injecting another with these drugs , even though it is difficult to see how mere possession ( which is the offence ) can cause death . |
| 12 | So it is not difficult to see how TB could spread from badger to cow . ’ |
| 13 | For some things you may find it difficult to see how to improve on them or you will not be able to think of suitable substitutes . |
| 14 | As a critical or psychological judgement it is meaningless , since it is difficult to see how a conductor can reveal private soul-searching whilst recording the overture to Die Fledermaus or Beethoven 's Seventh Symphony , short , that is , of transposing each piece into the minor and playing it at half speed . |
| 15 | In Australia , the spokesman said , ‘ it was difficult to see how we could get to a position of influence in the market without spending a lot of money . ’ |
| 16 | It is very difficult to see how this approach can be reconciled to either Article 92 of the Rome Treaty or to the notion of fair competition in a single market . |
| 17 | It is not difficult to see how ‘ Europe ’ , with all the unnatural passion that this word evokes among so-called pro-Europeans , might itself become one such absolute . |
| 18 | It is very difficult to see how Germany is less centralised and it should be clear that the ‘ subsidiarity ’ principle is merely an allocation of competence , as in the hierarchy of a company , rather than a distribution of power . |
| 19 | It is difficult to see how the compact feet of the sauropod could avoid becoming stuck fast in the soft , muddy bottom of a lake . |
| 20 | But although amino acids might well have become strung together to form primitive proteins , it is difficult to see how those proteins could have had any kind of coherent structure , or multiplied themselves efficiently , without help from DNA . |
| 21 | In the High Court , Taylor J found it ‘ very difficult to see how one could come to any other conclusion than that J had a learning difficulty ’ . |
| 22 | David Damiani set off from here with his family in April 1948 , and it was not difficult to see how clearly the old factory and the church above the city must have stood out on the horizon as the Argentina slipped past the tide bar and steamed for Beirut . |
| 23 | Unless this is understood and addressed , it is difficult to see how a durable peace can be achieved . |
| 24 | It is difficult to see how this latter analysis can predict the results obtained . |
| 25 | It is difficult to see how the courts can scrupulously review the reasonableness of police discretion where the case comes up so long after the event when the wording in the Act is so very wide in the first place . |
| 26 | Although the courts do not refuse in principle to review the exercise of police discretionary powers , they do nevertheless exercise a great deal of caution and restraint to such a degree that it is difficult to see how in practice the principles of judicial review are capable of being used to challenge decisions to issue warrants where these are considered to be necessary for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 27 | I do find it extraordinarily difficult to see how it [ women 's ordination as priests ] is consonant with the time and place that God chose to be incarnate . |
| 28 | Until women are ordained as priests it is difficult to see how a balance can be given to the leadership of the Church . |
| 29 | But it is difficult to see how we can have sensitivity to plants and rivers , trees and ecosystems if we have no sensitivity to the caged animal , or the animal undergoing product-testing or about to be slaughtered . |
| 30 | However , it is difficult to see how such criteria can be formulated to ensure that treatment is received by those individuals that the home authority would have chosen . |