Example sentences of "[adv] difficult [to-vb] [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most diligent student of the region 's past will find it extremely difficult to fix upon any period in earlier times in which the condition of the people can be seen as more attractive than the point reached by the early 1960s . |
| 2 | In fact , these provisions were largely ineffective since it proved extremely difficult to determine with any certainty which properties had increased in value as a result of a scheme ( or of works carried out under a scheme ) or , where there was a reasonable degree of certainty , how much of the increase in value was directly attributable to the scheme and how much to other factors . |
| 3 | Indubitably a noble metal , non-tarnishing and long wearing , it proved difficult to refine and even more difficult to work in any quantity . |
| 4 | The extent and depth of religious belief is notoriously difficult to estimate at any time in any country , but a few general statistics can be applied reliably to the peasantry of 1922 in areas like Belorussia , Kursk , and Tambov . |
| 5 | Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy . |
| 6 | But it is information about ancient religions which is the most difficult to derive with any certainty from archaeological evidence . |
| 7 | Social workers are often left to deal with those clients who are most difficult to engage in any treatment and most likely to relapse such as drug abusers and offenders . |
| 8 | Incomes policies were seen as crucial to help solve our problems , yet over and over again governments found that political pressures made these very difficult to sustain for any length of time . |
| 9 | It 's very difficult to speak with any degree of accuracy , but there is at least 1,500 known viruses at large and this figure is increasing by around 100 per month . |