Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to compare the success of different systems , for reasons including the following : |
| 2 | Even when this is done it is difficult to compare the effectiveness of hospital units with perinatal mortality rates because of the increasingly small subset of perinatal deaths that are amenable to medical intervention . |
| 3 | At this point , it is sufficient to point out that it is difficult to see a link between the themes of the above clauses , or even between a rheme and a following theme , for instance . |
| 4 | Phillips added : ‘ The players and staff are 100 per cent behind Barry Fry and find it difficult to see a future for themselves and the club without him . |
| 5 | Her chin rested on her chest , so it was difficult to see the expression on her face . |
| 6 | It is also difficult to see the consistency between his reference to sex as fine and noble and his claim that only complete renunciation of sex leads to the realization of God . |
| 7 | On the negative side it is difficult to see the advantage for Bergen Bank , which is getting mixed up with one of the most troublesome members of the already unfortunate Norwegian banking sector , where 1989 loss estimates of NKr1.6bn have been announced . |
| 8 | With no evidence that it would improve standards , it is difficult to see the advantage of turning the system upside down once more . |
| 9 | De la Mare felt Limb could not be received because it was British policy to sustain the Moscow agreement and it would be difficult to see the representative of a leading opponent of the government . |
| 10 | It is not difficult to see the connection between the former tradition and the stereotyped model of physical science — a model which , Hudson says , ‘ physical scientists themselves have long abandoned ’ . |
| 11 | In pollution control work , however , there is none of the sacredness of the policing of the traditional code ( Lemert , 1972 ; Manning , 1977 ) , and it is more difficult to dramatize the threat of pollution than to portray the symbolic assaults on the community from criminals , addicts , vandals , and other sinister figures on the fringes of the moral order ( Manning , 1980 ) , notwithstanding the missionary zeal of some proponents of regulatory reform in the USA . |
| 12 | In practice , of course , it would be very difficult to implement a policy of this nature . |
| 13 | ‘ It must be difficult to sustain a romance at such a distance . |
| 14 | It is difficult to ascribe the popularity of the DC to any particular feature , and its continuing use is probably related to the combination of desirable or acceptable features . |
| 15 | This is very attractive farmland , wide open fields , very intensively farmed , erm it 's very difficult to spot the aerodrome from driving round the area at all , erm some of it 's been taken up and incorporated into fields . |
| 16 | It is difficult to categorize the team alongside the previously mentioned sportsmen simply because it was more a comedy outfit than a competitive unit . |
| 17 | ‘ Some lead such active lives that we found it difficult to arrange a time for interview , while others are so isolated and lonely that our interviewers felt guilty about terminating the interview and leaving them to themselves . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's difficult to estimate the cost of making your house safe if it is found to have a serious problem , but in many cases it will be around £1,000 . |
| 19 | Indeed , it is difficult to estimate the scale of any civil war from Gregory 's account . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , it is very difficult to estimate the number of fraudulent claims for obvious reasons ) . |
| 21 | However , though estimates for riders can be made , the magazine says it is much more difficult to estimate the number of horses . |
| 22 | It would have been difficult to estimate the extent of this use of cassettes even if the events had not been so emotionally charged . |
| 23 | It was , of course , difficult to estimate the extent to which people were hit by these evolving programmes . |
| 24 | Since much of our ‘ intellectual debt ’ to the originators of ideas is filtered by reading their ideas in the works of others , it is difficult to acknowledge the extent to which the originators have influenced our thinking . |
| 25 | For an industry that is one of the biggest single employers in this country though , times have been hard during 1991/92 and businesses country-wide have found it increasingly difficult to continue the level of graduate recruitment . |
| 26 | As in previous years it was difficult to monitor the fighting in Cambodia during 1990 , as independent confirmation of conflicting claims was extremely rare . |
| 27 | I agree , I find it quite difficult to drive a lot of vehicles because I 'm very small and especially if you 've got small feet and I think there 's a big problem in that area and that it should be looked at for small people driving cars . |
| 28 | Agricultural research organisations in most countries are affected periodically by shortage of money or political instability , and it is difficult to assure the continuity for breeding tree crops such as cocoa . |
| 29 | There are to be no improvements in consumer representation , simply because — I quote the same document : ’ It would be more difficult to secure the support of other Departments to a major change so soon after privatisation ’ . |
| 30 | Traditionally , private investors find it difficult to accept a loss on redemption . |