Example sentences of "it is difficult [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to persuade overworkers of the importance of rest and recreation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | It is difficult to persuade people who are eagerly straining to learn to speechread that it is also important to learn how to stop . |
| 5 | Already there may be an awareness that , once started , it is difficult to stop drinking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it is difficult to draw sound conclusions from it , because ‘ problem families ’ need to be studied alongside ‘ normal families ’ and ‘ successful families ’ if we are to understand how they differ . |
| 8 | It is also clear that it is difficult to draw comparisons between the Western Isles and the developing countries . |
| 9 | It is difficult to divide Business Studies courses so clearly . |
| 10 | I have explained why it is difficult to use laboratory experiments and controlled trials in social research except in the cases of narrowly focused psychological studies . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In section 265 , for example , terms such as ‘ domiciled , ’ ‘ personally present , ’ ‘ ordinarily resident , ’ have had attributed to them , both in the context of bankruptcy and in that of civil procedure generally , a wealth of refined construction which it is difficult to suppose Parliament did not intend equally to apply when those words were used in the Act of 1986 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For some it is difficult to acknowledge love until they are sure they are loved in return . |
| 15 | When there are few clear , constant priorities , it is difficult to hold management to account for its actions . |
| 16 | Service : being such an indeterminate quantity it is difficult to set parameters . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is difficult to join monomode fibre because the tiny cores must be accurately aligned . |
| 20 | Inevitably the analysis is relatively crude since it is difficult to gather data about the financial circumstances of dementia sufferers or about the total amount of care provided for them in the community . |
| 21 | It is difficult to describe life in a large mentally handicapped hospital to people who have never seen one , which is most people . |
| 22 | It is difficult to control money supply , and impossible to control it precisely . |
| 23 | However , it is difficult to control pore size and distribution . |
| 24 | It is difficult to record colour objectively : people 's appreciation of colours obviously vary and , in any case , Nucella does not exist in discrete colour morphs . |
| 25 | Given employers ' lack of knowledge about qualifications and the relatively arbitrary way in which they use them , it is difficult to give credence to the widespread notion that they are dissatisfied with the educational levels of young workers . |
| 26 | It is difficult to give estimates of total population for this species , which is probably often overlooked . |
| 27 | The Evangelicals usually honoured Cranmer , but Macaulay did not , writing , somewhat unfairly , ‘ The sanguinary intolerance of a man who then wavered in his Creed excites a loathing to which it is difficult to give vent without calling foul names . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is difficult to penetrate Rudd 's religious views with any certainty . |
| 30 | It is difficult to motivate men for vasectomy . |