Example sentences of "it [is] difficult [to-vb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's difficult to fault Tascam 's 238 Syncaset . |
| 2 | But it 's difficult to convince Rush that Dalglish is not deluding himself if he says he is fulfilled by life after the Kop . |
| 3 | In the light of revisionist work it is difficult to treat Nicholas 's resistance to liberal reform as a matter of chance or historical accident . |
| 4 | It is difficult to penetrate Rudd 's religious views with any certainty . |
| 5 | In face of all this , it is difficult to deny Mr Jay 's proposition : that it is the active exploitation by the unions of their monopoly of the supply of labour which is at the heart of the country 's chronic economic malaise . |
| 6 | Because of the scattered patches of land with unclearly defined borders of the Bantustans , it is difficult to implement PHC effectively ( see Map 1 ) . |
| 7 | DESPITE HIS assertion that he is not anti-Japanese ( Business column , June ) , it is difficult to see Jeffrey Ferry 's article as anything other than yet another petulant cry at the temerity of these Japanese — for being good at business when they do n't look like us , behave like us or even speak the language properly . |
| 8 | Wulfhere 's reign is primarily distinguished in the surviving record , however , by his re-establishment of the Mercians as a significant political and military force in southern England and it is difficult to envisage Oswiu , king of the northern Angles , maintaining after c . |
| 9 | It is difficult to know Beatrice 's intention from her column . |
| 10 | It is difficult to accept Gandhi 's argument , based as it is on an evolutionary view of history , that mankind is continually moving in the direction of an utopia where ahi sā will prevail . |
| 11 | It is difficult to understand Avitus 's comment as anything other than a hyperbolic reference to the defeat of the Visigoths , and the destruction of Gothic power . |
| 12 | But it is difficult to imagine America 's corporate leaders advocating a crackdown on executive wining-and-dining , even for the Japanese . |
| 13 | It is difficult to share David Jones ' enthusiasm for the humble titration when one remembers all the argument there used to be about standardisation . |
| 14 | Yet , as recent work on political economy in the late eighteenth century has shown , it is difficult to establish Adam Smith , let alone Burke , as a ‘ free marketeer ’ in anything like the modern sense . |