Example sentences of "difficult [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usually difficult to see the individual minerals making up a basalt , since they are far too small , so one has to use a microscope . |
| 2 | The rail shape gradually changes throughout a board 's length ; unless you look carefully it is difficult to see the subtle changes involved . |
| 3 | It is difficult to miss the phallic connotations of the weapons the miller seems to make such a show of having about his person : — the diminution in scale to the " " joly poppere " " may already hint at the bawdy belittling the miller is to suffer . |
| 4 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 5 | The conclusion that DCF is correct conceptually and , contrary to the arguments of Hayes and Garvin , Hill , and others , does not have a short-run bias may not be very useful practically if it is very difficult to estimate the future benefits to be derived from the project in cash-flow terms . |
| 6 | However it is difficult to estimate the unregistered animals . |
| 7 | ‘ Matthew , I 'm trying to be very understanding and modern about this , but I want you to realize that for women of my generation , it 's difficult to accept the prevailing mores . ’ |
| 8 | In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core . |
| 9 | Ann Black , NALGO Branch Secretary , says it 's becoming increasingly difficult to provide the professional services we supply to students . |
| 10 | It is very difficult to find the proper words to acknowledge the hard and dedicated work that went into the restoration of this control tower by the Three-Ninetieth Memorial Air Museum . |
| 11 | However , as discussed in Chapter 8 , it can be difficult to establish the precise levels of these thresholds in practice . |
| 12 | In fact I am finding it difficult to establish the exact terms of reference for this study , given that a number of related studies are already underway . |
| 13 | We have seen that it was often difficult to isolate the various sub-domains condensed and subsumed under the general categories of morality and immorality . |
| 14 | He found it difficult to pick the right words . |
| 15 | It must be confessed that it is really difficult to pinpoint the precise locations of these ancient workings , which , at that time may have been little else than shallow holes on the outcrops . |
| 16 | If the access to an up-market development is via a local authority housing estate or area lacking in amenities it may prove more difficult to sell the completed units . |
| 17 | Rather than trying to bluff your way through , it is better to say something like , ‘ Right at this moment it 's rather difficult to remember the exact details , could I possibly look over the advertisement again ? ’ |
| 18 | Native speakers do not recognise this , but foreign learners of English notice that it is often difficult to hear the unstressed parts of a word in ordinary speech . |
| 19 | It is however , difficult to perceive the potential benefits to industrial partners in advance of an activity . |
| 20 | For a child who was reliant upon charity it was difficult to escape the determining rules which governed the public understanding of ‘ training up the child to be the man ( for woman ) ’ . |
| 21 | They make it difficult to equate the social tensions in the countryside with the economic processes at the heart of the Marxist interpretation . |
| 22 | The Builder complained that it was difficult to identify the separate sets of drawings and there were also complaints about the lack of light , while some drawings , like Scott 's principal view , were placed so high that they could not be seen properly . |
| 23 | Thirdly , the debates over how far to forge a strategy either for winning power or for promoting economic development in a post-revolutionary society have not been satisfactorily resolved , and indeed perhaps can not be , given that counter-revolutionary response to any successful formula will ensure that it will be that much more difficult to apply the same tactics in another situation . |
| 24 | Perhaps because it was difficult to suggest the grey areas of waiting until Hugh came back . |
| 25 | When technological spillovers exist , firms find it difficult to appropriate the full benefits of their research activities . |
| 26 | But it is notoriously difficult to predict the economic trends by which the models estimate fertility . |
| 27 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 28 | In the UK , as the new system of regulation is being put in place at a time of considerable liberalisation in financial markets it is difficult to separate the different factors that impinge on market efficiency . |
| 29 | When these are taken into account I have to confess that I find it difficult to understand the additional insights and explanations which the Marxist method offers . |
| 30 | It was difficult to keep the flickering candles alight , even , because of the draughts sweeping across the floors , lifting the rugs up as if there was an animal under them . |