Example sentences of "difficult [verb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any rate , it was difficult to see that the FAA had any good reason not to implement the very important recommendations made by their own US investigating authority , the NTSB , after the Windsor accident , especially as the RLD had gone to the trouble of flying to Los Angeles to make their point . |
| 2 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |
| 3 | It was the smart thing to do down Hollywood , but it is not difficult to see that the venom and enjoyment that went into those attacks of the 1920s tell us more about the social values of elites and in particular of intellectuals than they do about movies as such . |
| 4 | Cochrane argues that it is difficult to see whether the direction of change can be described as " post-Fordist " at all since the changes incorporate contradictory tendencies . |
| 5 | That type of structural error is rather more difficult to diagnose than the type where the results are always bad . |
| 6 | Fringe benefits are also more significant for workers in large companies although their exact size is difficult to estimate because the Welfare Facilities Survey covers only the 50 per cent of labour in firms employing more than 30 workers . |
| 7 | Dr Steel said it was difficult to estimate when the gene would be located but he thought it would be months rather than years . |
| 8 | After recent mass arrests and tortures in Beijing , it has become even more difficult to claim that the government is unaware of the excesses committed in Lhasa . |
| 9 | Its programmes are much the most susceptible to ‘ salami slicing ’ , since it is difficult to claim that the end of the world will come if the Army receives , say , ninety instead of a hundred tank replacements in a particular year . |
| 10 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 11 | Farm staffs are relatively small and unskilled youths are difficult to accommodate and the cost , £30/week as against £75/week for a skilled man , is undoubtedly a deterrent . |
| 12 | It is appreciated that these recommendations may be difficult to accept but the ravages of addictive disease can be so severe that it must be sensible for those specifically at risk to be advised to do everything in their power to avoid awakening their potential . |
| 13 | Sometimes the required information may be difficult to obtain and the implications of different courses of action hard to predict . |
| 14 | He kissed me again , a different , unanguished sort of kiss which was somehow much more difficult to bear than the other . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is sometimes difficult to know whether the purchaser has done an act adopting the transaction . |
| 18 | of contract , although evidence may be difficult to find if the expert issues a non-speaking decision . |
| 19 | In practice , unless the employer can show that the employee has copied or physically removed a list of names or the details of a process then it may be very difficult to establish that the knowledge of the employee is exclusively due to confidential information . |
| 20 | It is our belief that the idea of a grammar as a theory , subject at every point to testing and criticism , is difficult to establish unless the student is in a position to contrast it with another . |
| 21 | However , the problem with contact lenses and glasses is that your eyes can change over time , so it is imperative that problems are sorted out as soon as possible , as it will be difficult to establish whether the fault lies in your eyes or in the lenses . |
| 22 | Criminal fraud is notoriously difficult to establish and the evidence required to do so needs careful and skilled assessment . |
| 23 | It is also difficult to establish when the damage occurred . |
| 24 | ‘ Rules ’ , except in very general terms , are difficult to define because the issues will be different according to : |
| 25 | Even moderate Muslims agree that Mr Azam 's question will become increasingly difficult to answer if the war drags on for months and if the allies damage some of the holy sites of Shia Islam in Iraq . |
| 26 | This sub-committee had nothing else to do and the members carried out their task well : the delegates were all comfortable ! ( 6 ) Noting how the committee is proceeding is made more or less difficult according as the Chairman is less or more efficient . |
| 27 | They are very difficult to destroy although the enemy may try to attack them with other engines of war , large monsters or magic for example . |
| 28 | In the first case the item in question is cheap to produce but the parts to which it assembles are difficult to design and the assembly process demanding . |
| 29 | In the first case the item in question is cheap to produce but the parts to which it assembles are difficult to design and the assembly process demanding . |
| 30 | Such a strategy would ultimately devalue our famous brands and would be difficult to reverse when the recession ends . |