Example sentences of "it [verb] difficult [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , all ‘ go ’ periods tended to be followed by ‘ stop ’ periods and it became difficult to achieve long-term economic growth . |
| 2 | That salary was more than ever a disincentive : it seemed difficult to attract experienced candidates . |
| 3 | This is another area where it appears difficult to reconcile demographic and housing trends . |
| 4 | A problem with this point of view is that there is in fact no evidence of descent groups having ever existed without these two levels and it seems difficult to treat all documented cases as transitions from a stage for which there is no evidence . |
| 5 | It seems difficult to write behavioural objectives for this domain alone , as affective functioning is always interwoven with cognitive functioning . |
| 6 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 7 | One major problem is that if the offence is defined so as to include all touchings to which the victim does not consent , it seems difficult to exclude everyday physical contact with others . |
| 8 | Maybe it was not direct aid and did not have a serious effect , but it seems difficult to imagine any sportsman , black or white , entering sport entirely unassisted . |
| 9 | However , it proved difficult to embody this compromise in a satisfactory constitutional formula . |
| 10 | It proved difficult to discharge many of these patients . |
| 11 | Because of that prominence , it proved difficult to develop that element of compromise and bargaining which would have been essential for integrative success . |
| 12 | As market rates of interest vary over time , it becomes difficult to achieve this , a feature known as reinvestment risk . |
| 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 ? |