Example sentences of "difficult [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , influenced by the fact that the deterrence policy is firmly adhered to by the governments of the superpowers and has some political acceptability , and that the traditional doctrine of the laws of war did not apply to preparation for war , his eventual conclusion is that it would be difficult to state that any measures short of use are illegal . |
| 2 | It is difficult to imagine that such species were rapid swimmers . |
| 3 | I sometimes find it difficult to believe that other lesbians will accept me as one of them . |
| 4 | Foreign firms find it difficult to believe that Japanese costs are really low enough to justify such low prices and there is some evidence that the domestic prices of equivalent goods are higher . |
| 5 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 6 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |
| 7 | In the provincial press , and especially the local weeklies , it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare . |
| 8 | It was difficult to believe that these birds had been harvested for food on Mykines for generations , or to argue against the Faroese claim that the strict regulations which apply to the fowling are designed to ensure that the population numbers are not adversely affected . |
| 9 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 10 | However , it is difficult to believe that sufficient quantities of suitable substances could have appeared at the Cytherean surface to mop up anywhere near the amount of oxygen that would be liberated from an Earth-like quantity of water . |
| 11 | The report admitted : ‘ There are problems associated with this since it is difficult to ensure that feral pigeons only are taken since some birds may be ringed and belong to pigeon fanciers . |
| 12 | But since the nature of their business is so inexorably linked with valuable information legitimately acquired , it is difficult to ensure that this information is not illegitimately used . |
| 13 | At precisely the same moment at which central government concerns to reduce spending on the welfare state became dominant , it became more difficult to ensure that local authorities would do what was required . |
| 14 | Finally , as we have shown earlier , what is defined as criminal varies across time and place , thus making it difficult to argue that in-built differences between the sexes can explain what is a variable phenomena . |
| 15 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
| 16 | However , it would be difficult to argue that single parents are rebelling against the conventional family form in principle . |
| 17 | From the 1570s onwards , even in the conservative south-west of the country , statements by testators which indicate a belief in solafidianism appeared regularly in the preambles of large numbers of wills , although the comments which the same testators made when leaving bequests to charities suggest that many still found it difficult to appreciate that good works could play absolutely no part in their salvation . |
| 18 | Mrs Porter said it was difficult to say that local authorities should help Victim Support , but added : ‘ It would be nice if we could be considered because of our vital service . ’ |
| 19 | For isotropic elastic materials it is not difficult to show that internal pressurization allows the determination of the plane strain bulk modulus A torsion test will give a fourth elastic constant , the longitudinal shear modulus . |