Example sentences of "it is difficult to know " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS difficult to know who is the more isolated : the 62 members of the Lebanese Parliament or the 73 members of the Lebanese press corps . |
| 2 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 3 | It is difficult to know what of the next few seconds I remember , or have pieced together , or have been told by Nathan . |
| 4 | ‘ The workers have not followed the proper dispute procedures , they have no legitimate grievances and it is difficult to know what they want . ’ |
| 5 | If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him . |
| 6 | Also , it is difficult to know how well Rank 's negotiating position would have held up after cinema admissions had started their precipitate decline in the mid-1950s . |
| 7 | At first it is difficult to know exactly where the film is going , either as a thriller or a romance . |
| 8 | A lot of the time it is difficult to know what horses have in mind , and they must find us equally frustrating to understand . |
| 9 | Benidorm is such a terrific holiday resort , with so much to do , that it is difficult to know where to start . |
| 10 | In this respect MI6 has had a number of successes although it is difficult to know how useful defectors really are ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 11 | Comparison of ‘ An Ode on Mercy ’ in the first volume and the version printed with the subscription proposals also reveals differences , though again it is difficult to know whether the editor of that volume was following Leapor 's manuscript in preference to a version corrected possibly by Garrick . |
| 12 | There were numerous poems written about country estates in the eighteenth century , but again it is difficult to know how many of these Leapor read , though she must have read some . |
| 13 | From the outside it is difficult to know whether to curse Bramante 's decision to demolish the original church — apart from the internal apse structure and the ( later ) campanile , — or to marvel at the soaring lines . |
| 14 | It is difficult to know Beatrice 's intention from her column . |
| 15 | Baldwin ( 1954 ) states that 42 per cent of Mexico had ‘ accelerated erosion ’ and so on , although as section 1 of this chapter suggests , it is difficult to know how to gauge the significance of these figures except in a general and qualitative way , which indeed may be sufficient . |
| 16 | It is difficult to know where to have Randolph Ash . |
| 17 | The use of propaganda to make this behaviour unfashionable again has been suggested ( Stanley 1969 ) , but no health education programme has ever been put forward to this purpose and it is difficult to know whether such an approach would be feasible . |
| 18 | Avoid all restaurant or take-away food during this time as it is difficult to know what you are eating . |
| 19 | And it is difficult to know how they will be heard . |
| 20 | But it is difficult to know whether their defence of the Masai in such cases should be attributed to the peculiarly seductive qualities of this people , or to the well-documented tendency of District Officers throughout British Africa to become closely identified , in a paternal and proprietary way , with the interests of ‘ their ’ tribe . |
| 21 | It is true that on one occasion , when asked if Gandhi had not been tiresome , he replied that ‘ Some people found Our Lord very tiresome ’ ; but in the context of general unsympathy it is difficult to know what to make of this very Irwinian rebuke . |
| 22 | Light is such an absolute , yet such a commonplace , that it is difficult to know where to start when discussing it . |
| 23 | It is difficult to know where to draw the line between knowledge and interference . |
| 24 | Whilst Bunyan might have rejoiced at being used to belabour the inanities and vanities of the Church of England , it is difficult to know what he would have thought of being commemorated by memorial windows in Elstow parish church and Westminster Abbey . |
| 25 | But , it is difficult to know which statistics are the most realistic and which formulae to use to calculate cost of living let alone how often to update cost-of-living allowances . |
| 26 | It is difficult to know whether this is more ludicrous or tragic . |
| 27 | Thus , when we see an increase in the numbers , it is difficult to know what it means , Social research other than the obvious fact that more children live at home while legally in care . |
| 28 | It is difficult to know . |
| 29 | But like all these sorts of research findings it is difficult to know whether the accountants became cautious as a result of their training or whether the cautious attitude developed in the family as children . |
| 30 | Finally , the author uses language which frequently shows distinct signs of improvisation : for instance , in the sentence quoted earlier on the treatment of marble , it is difficult to know what exactly is meant by the ‘ skin ’ . |