Example sentences of "[adv] difficult [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's so difficult to add up the the hours , but I mean it 's a number of days of course it 's not working solidly you know , maybe only for an up an hour or an hour . |
| 2 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |
| 3 | It is extremely difficult to gauge accurately the dimensions of the shroud from these brasses , but a mean average would be twelve inches longer than the length of the body — to allow for a six-inch knot at top and bottom — and three times its width . |
| 4 | IT is perhaps difficult to understand why The Rite of Spring caused a theatrical scandal when first it was danced in Paris in 1913 . |
| 5 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 6 | Despite excavations on the Palatine Hill which have continued since 1863 and which have uncovered a wide area , it is still difficult to ascertain clearly the design of these palaces . |
| 7 | Finally , it is therefore the more difficult to see how the proposals can have anything to do with genuine industrial democracy , that is to say , with the accountability of the board of directors as a corporate whole to the individual men and women who constitute the workforce and who would have the ultimate power to replace an unsatisfactory board . |
| 8 | From a twentieth century perspective it is often difficult to admire either the management of plot and catastrophe or the sentiments of plays written in the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 9 | It is a little difficult to explain why the 1 January method superseded 25 March as the start of the historical year , although it can be shown that it was in ordinary use early in the eighteenth century , as witness such as ‘ A True and Perfect Inventory of the Goods and Chattells of John Green Deceased the eight day of January 1713/14 ’ . |
| 10 | It is indeed difficult to understand how the idea gained circulation that the Danes were itching to be allowed to change their minds . |
| 11 | Nice and easy for those of you just beginning to try your hand at intarsia and it 's not too difficult to work out the chart for yourself with the many aids available . |
| 12 | It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way , except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us . |
| 13 | Even if one postulates continent-wide uplift to produce the conglomerate in such widely separated places , it is very difficult to explain why the source rock is also so remarkably similar from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 14 | Since it is very difficult to lay down the conditions for deciding where the boundaries between tone-units exist , the discussion of this matter must wait until later . |
| 15 | I do n't drink and it 's very difficult to shut out the stresses of the day . |
| 16 | In that sort of countryside of hedgerows , orchards and narrow lanes , it was very difficult to assess where the shots were coming from . |
| 17 | It is very difficult to assess accurately the costs of corporate crime . |
| 18 | It was still very difficult to see how the process might work , or to account for the fact that some ads worked , and some consumers took action , but others stubbornly did not ; or that an apparently good campaign failed to achieve extra sales — for sales were still the only real measure of effectiveness . |
| 19 | When all this has been said , it is still very difficult to see how the Divisional Court in R. v. LTE ex parte GLC managed to come down in favour of the GLC in the face of the unanimous decision of the Law Lords . |
| 20 | ‘ At the fourth hospital , in Kirkwall , Orkney , ’ the committee continued , ‘ it was very difficult to see how the service could proceed without a continued exemption , but this will be reviewed over the next two years . ’ |
| 21 | It is very difficult to understand how the Bank can say this on the one hand and on the other hand , send out advertisements for positions such as Outlet Manager , [ Whatever that is ! ] , with a remuneration package that is to be negotiated with the Bank . |
| 22 | Even when a discharge is discovered , it is sometimes very difficult to establish where the other end of the pipe is : town plans or the other records which comprise the organizational memory are often incomplete or out of date , while physically tracing the effluent can involve the time-consuming and hazardous task of lifting manholes in the middle of city streets while filling sample buckets , proceeding by trial and error to narrow down the possible sources of pollution . |
| 23 | It is very difficult to marry up the sale of a record with a live show . |
| 24 | Productivity has been maintained , as far as possible , by the increasing use of artificial fertilizers , but it has proved very difficult to keep up the humus level on which a good soil structure depends . |
| 25 | Nevertheless it is very difficult to achieve even the major objectives listed above , either because some of them conflict in practice or because the policy tools are insufficient in number or effectiveness to complete the task adequately . |
| 26 | It 's very difficult to break down the stereotypes but if you do that I believe you release a whole new artistic form . |