Example sentences of "it is difficult distinguish " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside this compound of fairytale castles and cartoon characters , it is difficult to distinguish between what is artificial and what is real . |
| 2 | It is difficult to distinguish cause and effect ; and even if we could be sure that the low level of orienting in the pre-exposed subjects was responsible for their retarded conditioning , it would still be necessary to explain why it is that the OR should return when reinforced training begins . |
| 3 | Without some element of suffering in our lives , it is difficult to distinguish a pleasurable life from a happy life . |
| 4 | One of the drawbacks to using any of the breakage data described so far is that later depositional agencies produce additional breakage , and it is difficult to distinguish between them . |
| 5 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 6 | In terms of specific details of necessary improvements in health and welfare it is difficult to distinguish between the programmes of the Alliance and Labour . |
| 7 | Indeed it is an important priority to generate new data which make ethnicity visible , because on the basis of existing evidence it is difficult to distinguish whether the different patterns of support which we can see in minority ethnic kin groups are likely to persist as patterns of settlement stabilize . |
| 8 | There are several consequences of this complexity and they include the following : ( 1 ) It is difficult to distinguish those events which are the result of the project from those which are the result of other events contemporary with the project . |
| 9 | A recent British study , summarising the evidence on the financial characteristics of acquiring , acquired and non-acquired companies , concludes that it is difficult to distinguish between them . |
| 10 | But because both CSPs and more general phonological variables are variety-specific , it is difficult to distinguish them clearly enough to apply the taxonomy more generally . |
| 11 | Anti-dumping measures are supposed to be a response to ‘ unfair ’ competition , but it is difficult to distinguish genuine low-cost entry from predatory entry by foreign suppliers . |
| 12 | If it is difficult to distinguish precisely the living standards of older women in official statistics , it is impossible to say anything at all about the position of older Black women ( or men for that matter ) . |
| 13 | However , during the 1680s and 1690s it is difficult to distinguish his parliamentary activities from those of his younger but politically more significant cousin , Sir John Lowther of Lowther , first Viscount Lonsdale [ q.v . ] , |
| 14 | In practice it is difficult to distinguish the effortless " no " from inertia , apathy , complacency and timidity . |
| 15 | There are several apical papillae flanked on each side by many oral papillae , it is difficult to distinguish the oral from the apical papillae . |
| 16 | Some published material is hand written and of such high quality that it is difficult to distinguish it from a typeset score . |
| 17 | These services are subject to gradation and it is difficult to distinguish between them sometimes . |
| 18 | Because only symptomatic patients were treated , it is difficult to distinguish biliary pain which occurs as part of the natural course of the disease from that caused by lithotripsy . |
| 19 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 20 | In infections with adult worms , the eggs will be found in faeces , but since it is difficult to distinguish these from Heterakis eggs , confirmation must be made by post-mortemm examination of a casualty when the large white worms will be found . |