Example sentences of "it be difficult [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble about starting a very small business is that it 's difficult to do things of any great originality , because you do n't have the buying power or maybe the manufacturing base to really get the thing off the ground . |
| 2 | But it 's difficult to remember things like that when you 've been brought up in a village and you 're used to chatting to everyone you meet . |
| 3 | It 's difficult to get matches under your belt when you 're like that . |
| 4 | As I 'm six and a half feet tall , it 's difficult to get jeans to fit me . |
| 5 | It 's difficult to find companies willing to be specific about the changes or benefits that have resulted from the services of a consulting guru . |
| 6 | Erm I I think it 's difficult to quote examples off the cuff here er the er British Aerospace for example , I know that erm er the company has planned to introduce cellular manufacturing techniques for some components which will reduce the number of man hours that are devoted to the manufacture of that item an and given a level of throughput will do the job a lot more efficiently . |
| 7 | It 's difficult to hear chords in different ways and impossible on the the normal guitar to do piano-type chords . ’ |
| 8 | Well , erm , it 's difficult to make forecasts , particularly with the S E C breathing down one 's neck but I think one can say that the industry conditions , if you were to read the reports of other companies and for us , is pretty much erm , status quo , in other words the domestic excuse me , domestic industry 's doing quite well , the rig , the rig count 's up , the Canadian rig count 's up , international markets remain rather soggy but some of them are qui you know on a , on a selective basis some are quite good . |
| 9 | I think it 's difficult to make friends |
| 10 | Once the structure is complete , it 's difficult to prevent sounds passing from one part to another , or to prevent sounds entering or leaving the building . |
| 11 | It is difficult to persuade overworkers of the importance of rest and recreation . |
| 12 | It is difficult to persuade teachers that the denial of valid arts experiences to themselves during their own school days has denied them an enriching experience and offered them instead an impoverished education . |
| 13 | It is difficult to persuade consumers to try a new product , but when it is more expensive than rump steak the problem is exacerbated , particularly when one of the attractions of vegetarianism is that it is such a cheap alternative to meat |
| 14 | Although the method has drawbacks , particularly that it is difficult to eliminate duplications from the results , it has the merits of being simple , and giving reasonably consistent results with a number of observers and being readily repeated . |
| 15 | It is also clear that it is difficult to draw comparisons between the Western Isles and the developing countries . |
| 16 | Some of his well-wishers have pointed out that it is difficult to use relations as general as these to provide more than schematic explanations , and have attempted to define them more precisely . |
| 17 | Service : being such an indeterminate quantity it is difficult to set parameters . |
| 18 | He further argues that with multiple measures there is a danger of losing focus , and that it is difficult to set targets for some indicators because there are no historical data on them . |
| 19 | Because it is difficult to incorporate contingencies of this kind contracts will inevitably be incomplete specifications of the rights and obligations of the contracting parties . |
| 20 | It is difficult to give estimates of total population for this species , which is probably often overlooked . |
| 21 | And we have to acknowledge that , although it is difficult to flip planets over , there is good evidence that similar things have happened in the past among the outer planets of the Solar System . |
| 22 | It is difficult to motivate men for vasectomy . |
| 23 | For these reasons it is difficult to generate principles of interviewing , there are always alternative viewpoints and exceptions . |
| 24 | With these processes , our edge processes and the technique of conjugation , one can actually solve all four of our basic subproblems independently of the others and it is possible to do them in any order , although it is difficult to orient pieces that are not yet in their correct position . |
| 25 | It is difficult to pinpoint frailties amongst the forwards at the moment , because they have played so well , but to accept that they are peaking now would be folly . |
| 26 | It is difficult to sustain untruths and false masks over twelve months of contact in the field , particularly when this contact involves sharing private moments with respondents , such as those provided in the canteen or during the quiet hours of the might shift , tiding in the back of a vehicle or on security duty in the sanger ( guardpost ) . |
| 27 | Since the 1986 Act allows a receiver , even though appointed out of court , to obtain the court 's directions , it is difficult to envisage circumstances in which an application to the court can be justified if the cheaper alternative is available , and the professional adviser who recommended it would be laying himself open to grave risk of criticism . |
| 28 | Hence the optimists believe that it is difficult to visualise circumstances better suited to a successful devaluation than the ones currently offered . |
| 29 | Secondly , as previously discussed ( p. 40 ) , self-poisoning is often impulsive , and it is difficult to devise ways of combating this impulsivity . |
| 30 | The trade in plutonium between Britain and the US has shown that two countries that proclaim their peaceful intentions as loudly as any are not beyond suspicion and that it is difficult to believe assurances that nuclear power stations have no weapons connection . |