Example sentences of "it [vb -s] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it looks difficult but |
| 2 | That would have been risky with ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ — also a continuo song — because it contains difficult display passages in the bass line as well as the vocal part . ) |
| 3 | I shall not deal with the second part of the hon. Gentleman 's question because it raises difficult issues which will no doubt be the subject of discussion later . |
| 4 | ‘ This is where it gets difficult to explain . |
| 5 | Now , now it gets difficult when you come to a number like six . |
| 6 | I mean , I know it gets difficult . |
| 7 | In view of the contradictions which beset historical societies , it appears difficult to explain their survival . |
| 8 | This is another area where it appears difficult to reconcile demographic and housing trends . |
| 9 | A problem with this point of view is that there is in fact no evidence of descent groups having ever existed without these two levels and it seems difficult to treat all documented cases as transitions from a stage for which there is no evidence . |
| 10 | One major problem is that if the offence is defined so as to include all touchings to which the victim does not consent , it seems difficult to exclude everyday physical contact with others . |
| 11 | It seems difficult to write behavioural objectives for this domain alone , as affective functioning is always interwoven with cognitive functioning . |
| 12 | I am always told they you should have a trim every 4–6 weeks to get rid of all the split ends but it seems difficult to grow my hair when it 's constantly being cut . |
| 13 | Maybe it was not direct aid and did not have a serious effect , but it seems difficult to imagine any sportsman , black or white , entering sport entirely unassisted . |
| 14 | At any rate , it seems difficult for them all to be given equal emphasis all the time . |
| 15 | It seems difficult to imagine the next target . |
| 16 | It seems difficult to explain so obvious an assertion in simpler terms . |
| 17 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 18 | Such language seems vacuous to some , but if we are to comprehend the nature of the arts in particular , being is a concept which it seems difficult to do without . |
| 19 | But it seems difficult to refute the Soviet contention that in Russia the advance of industrial capitalism , rather than fostering moderation , reformism and concern with purely economic goals , was nourishing an increasingly radical and politically conscious proletariat . |
| 20 | Sadly , it seems difficult for you to keep partnerships or close relationships steady at the moment . |
| 21 | It seems difficult to imagine how this could come about . |
| 22 | On the whole it seems difficult to believe they are very important . |
| 23 | If this is indeed so , and if it is true that the latency period is in decline as an important cultural phenomenon , then it seems difficult not to conclude that in some very significant respects modern Western child-rearing practices are approximating more to those of pre-Neolithic , pre-agricultural societies like those of the Australian aborigines than to modern industrial ones . |
| 24 | However , in so far as their purpose is purely redistributive , it seems difficult to provide a rationale for price subsidies or in-kind transfers rather than cash transfers , and yet these latter forms of assistance are extremely important components of public expenditure ( see , e.g. Brennan and Pincus 1983 ) . |
| 25 | It seems difficult to argue that these are insignificant remnants of a forgotten tradition for a composer who so meticulously marked his scores ; surely these differences must imply either changes of tempo or a relationship with the previous and/or succeeding tempo ? |
| 26 | It seems difficult to imagine it translating even across the Mersey . |
| 27 | Then it becomes difficult to start . |
| 28 | Cooperation is rarely found to succeed amongst those who are unequal in material terms since it becomes difficult both to ensure an equal distribution of costs and benefits . |
| 29 | Where Federman and Sukenick replace finished story with the process of narrating so that it becomes difficult to say what their novels are ‘ about ’ , Rudolph Wurlitzer pursues a rather different task in his fiction . |
| 30 | Technological hazards are more unpredictable and may be extremely rare , so that it becomes difficult to use probability concepts to quantify risk , especially those which rely on notions of relative frequency . |