Example sentences of "difficult [to-vb] out the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made it difficult to work out the company 's exposure to open contracts at any given time and this , in turn , allowed Mr Koval to indulge in ‘ extensive trading outside any limit contemplated by the plaintiff 's board ’ . |
| 2 | Nice and easy for those of you just beginning to try your hand at intarsia and it 's not too difficult to work out the chart for yourself with the many aids available . |
| 3 | We can not settle the theory of life histories because we can not be sure whether cave organisms put more effort into reproduction than do their relatives at the surface ; nor can we be sure whether they have reduced metabolic rates , which makes it difficult to sort out the question of adaptation . |
| 4 | I do n't drink and it 's very difficult to shut out the stresses of the day . |
| 5 | He is sensitive to the problem of testing the thesis since it is difficult to separate out the influence of parties and politicians from that of other institutions , groups , interests , and the whole context of economic policy-making . |
| 6 | So maybe it 's difficult to separate out the consequences of abuse per se from the consequences of erm lousy emotional environment , from the consequences of neglect and deprivation , from the consequences of a whole range of non-sexual abuses which you may find in the kinds of environment where child sex abuse is more likely . |
| 7 | Ann found it very difficult to tell , just as she had found it difficult to fathom out the workings of Martha 's mind in the days before she and her twin were married . |
| 8 | Since the sex , age and social class distributions for the general population are known it is not difficult to parcel out the interviewers ' tasks according to these criteria . |
| 9 | How to use : Apply to wet hair ( otherwise it will be difficult to shampoo out the oil ) by massaging well into the scalp to reach the hair roots . |
| 10 | In the dim light it was difficult to make out the illustration . |
| 11 | There were no windows on the first-floor landing , and in the dark it was difficult to make out the numbers on the doors . |