Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] difficult [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Licensing agent Janet Lees added : ‘ It 's difficult to give a total but Thomas the Tank made £250 million in the UK alone . ’ |
| 2 | It 's difficult to give a hard and fast rule . |
| 3 | It 's difficult to hold a sensible discussion about self-regulation . |
| 4 | Although with such a large number of birds , it 's difficult to grow a particular affection for individuals . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm still on the front row but it 's difficult to make a good start and have any effect at Spa because it 's such a short run-up to the first corner , so Alain would have to make a really dreadful start … |
| 6 | It 's difficult to offer a fair assessment of the Interludes from Wolfgang Fortner 's opera Blutchochzeit ( ‘ Blood-Wedding ’ ) , which forms the other work on this disc . |
| 7 | Although it is difficult to reach a clear judgement about whether there is enough pollution control , we can discuss whether the current mechanism of pollution control is sensible . |
| 8 | Today , it is difficult to define a particular Hautvillers style : all have a good fruit content , and although some are perhaps lacking in definition , the finest attain great distinction , balancing high extract with a delicacy of flavour . |
| 9 | It is difficult to draw a neat conclusion . |
| 10 | It is difficult to design a good system without the audit in mind . |
| 11 | It is difficult to test a potential cure when a disease is ill-defined . |
| 12 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
| 13 | I would suggest you monitor the water very closely for ammonia , as it is difficult to give a precise ‘ life ’ for ion exchange resins . |
| 14 | We find many cases where it is difficult to assign a particular speech sound to a particular phoneme . |
| 15 | It is difficult to formulate a standard definition of a joint venture . |
| 16 | It is difficult to choose a medium sized fish which is compatible with smaller fish , but why not consider keeping the Striped Anostomus , Anostomus anostomus ? |
| 17 | It is difficult to put a specific date on when Jarman became ‘ mine host ’ at the ancient hostelry ; the time of his villainies lies somewhere between the inn 's foundation in 1106 , and the rebuilding of around 1500 . |
| 18 | There are obvious advantages of the information which could include better costing , better cash flow , improved customer relations , and it should lead to better decisions being made by management , but it is difficult to put a monetary value on all this . |
| 19 | It is difficult to discern a strong trend or pattern in the types of finance . |
| 20 | Analyte affinity constants of antibodies are at least an order of magnitude greater than those of enzymes , so much higher sensitivity is possible , but it is difficult to extract a detectable signal from the binding event . |
| 21 | Without some element of suffering in our lives , it is difficult to distinguish a pleasurable life from a happy life . |
| 22 | It is difficult to imagine a public transport setting where the combination of infinitely ( and rapidly ) varying weather and interesting manual flying in arguably one of Europe 's most beautiful areas can be bettered . |
| 23 | As it is difficult to imagine a direct advantage conferred by shell banding for survival in wave-swept conditions , banding must be a pleiotropic consequence of a physiological or morphological trait that does affect life under those conditions ( Berry , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | I know it is difficult to discuss a scientific topic nowadays without dragging in recombinant DNA somehow , but I can not conceive of even the most tenuous connection between genetic engineering and the quantum theory . |
| 25 | In the context of geomorphology Clayton ( 1971 ) , himself a geographer progressed to environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia , has argued that it is difficult to achieve a balanced development across the two subjects of geography and geology that it depends upon , and Worsley ( 1979 ) particularly concerned for the diminishing resources available and the imminent policy of selective resource concentration argued : |
| 26 | Unlike many other goals , it is difficult to satisfy a strong desire for power . |
| 27 | It is difficult to get a good clear contrast with chalk and an overhead projector , or white board with thick black felt pens for writing , can give better contrast . |
| 28 | There 's another =nother thing about any course but particularly this one where there 's sort of lots of subjects and a bit of overlap it is difficult to get a good system for organizing your notes but it is essential . |
| 29 | It is difficult to get a consecutive account of the battle . |
| 30 | I think that most hon. Members would agree that probably it is difficult to determine a strict geographic definition of Europe . |