Example sentences of "[pers pn] is difficult [verb] these [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is difficult to evaluate these innovations .
2 The notion seems a useful one , though it is difficult to confirm these settings scientifically .
3 But it is difficult to see these factors as amounting to an absolute restriction when put against the equally well recorded government support for overcapacity and inefficient working .
4 It is difficult to put these sums into context for there is no knowing what benefit has been achieved compared to what would have resulted from some other social expenditure .
5 It is difficult to believe these comments refer to the same Report as that evaluated in a balanced leader in the Independent ( 16 November 1988 ) under the headline ‘ A blow for literacy ’ .
6 In practice it is difficult to locate these points , as the foot of the old cliff ( O on Fig. 9.18 ) may be obscured by talus or , more often , modified by erosion , in which case it may have been at A and the former cliff be represented by AH .
7 In the UK , and in most European countries , it is difficult to overcome these problems .
8 However , since the majority of rapes are not reported to the police , it is difficult to interpret these figures .
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