Example sentences of "it becomes difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it becomes difficult to start . |
| 2 | Cooperation is rarely found to succeed amongst those who are unequal in material terms since it becomes difficult both to ensure an equal distribution of costs and benefits . |
| 3 | Where Federman and Sukenick replace finished story with the process of narrating so that it becomes difficult to say what their novels are ‘ about ’ , Rudolph Wurlitzer pursues a rather different task in his fiction . |
| 4 | Technological hazards are more unpredictable and may be extremely rare , so that it becomes difficult to use probability concepts to quantify risk , especially those which rely on notions of relative frequency . |
| 5 | It becomes difficult to identify signs of any significant decentralization , although an increased degree of fragmentation between different agencies is clear enough . |
| 6 | As his biographer develops the theme of his travels , it becomes difficult to tell whether Godric is more of a merchant or a pilgrim : we find him at Jerusalem , at Compostela and at Rome . |
| 7 | Since this is inextricably bound up with women 's position in society as the prime providers of such tending , it becomes difficult to say whether the depressed status of such work is a result of a system of male domination of women or whether such work has been allocated to women as part of that process . |
| 8 | It becomes difficult to see how discourses can change . |
| 9 | During the hundred fifty years in question , there was so great a diversity of views about nature that , on closer inspection , it becomes difficult to achieve a succinct characterization . |
| 10 | It becomes difficult then to adduce abstract principles which should have a life of their own , quite apart from whether they have been exemplified within history , which may be used to judge history . |
| 11 | Later , the processes slow down with the shift to increased differentiation with a rapid fall in mitotic index in both embryo and fetal membranes after day 14 , thus it becomes difficult to obtain chromosome preparations from the later stages , particularly shortly preceding birth . |
| 12 | Some seepages can be sampled if there is a noticeable flow , but many are so insubstantial in quantity that sampling is not possible and it becomes difficult to talk of a ‘ discharge ’ . |
| 13 | However , once one begins to argue the toss about the liberal value of various academic subjects , it becomes difficult to exclude any of them : Do not medicine and engineering raise profound questions about life ? |
| 14 | When posed in such stark but accurate terms it becomes difficult to see why this is supposed to amount to a distinct moral justification for punishment . |
| 15 | And in such a situation it becomes difficult to say whether the temporary worker is brought in because of a shortage of permanent staff or because there is ( now ) a once-off task to be performed . |
| 16 | Characteristically it becomes difficult , but also necessary , in just this market phase , to distinguish this form of production from others with which it had analogous economic relations . |
| 17 | But if this is indeed the case , it becomes difficult to explain how significant individuating references can be made to anything that is subject to change ; or indeed to make clear sense of any spatiotemporal order concepts . |
| 18 | An organisation might become so widely diversified in the range of products or services it offers that it becomes difficult , if not impossible , for management to integrate all of the organisation under a common objective and within a single ‘ management philosophy ’ and culture . |
| 19 | A word of caution is required because if everyone is working on a sub-problem then it becomes difficult to tackle the whole problem in a novel way . |
| 20 | As market rates of interest vary over time , it becomes difficult to achieve this , a feature known as reinvestment risk . |
| 21 | This means that it becomes difficult , some would say impossible , to specify the ceteris paribus conditions of a theory . |
| 22 | A question asked early in the interview may affect answers to subsequent questions , and if this order were to be altered it becomes difficult to detect the effect this might have on the replies . |
| 23 | You can drive along a motorway for years and see nothing , but once you learn the quivering shape above the verge is a hovering kestrel looking for voles in the short grass , it becomes difficult to pass a kestrel ever again without mentally noting what it is , what it is doing and why it is there . |
| 24 | In many cases , this loads down an essay with so many notes that it becomes difficult to read . |
| 25 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 26 | The simple-mindedness of their consideration makes the object of it complex in comparison — so complex that it becomes difficult to understand how mere mortal man has ever managed to enjoy anything . |