Example sentences of "difficulty [prep] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next sentence begins ‘ Yet reason tells me … ’ and ends ‘ … then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination , can hardly be considered real . ’ |
| 2 | What makes the issue of the legitimacy of our constitutional arrangements so problematic is the general open ended-ness of those arrangements ; that is , the difficulty of knowing whether a practice or non-practice is or is not constitutional . |
| 3 | A related fundamental problem for empirical work in the elite theory tradition is the difficulty of demonstrating that a power relationship exists . |
| 4 | The first is the difficulty of stipulating when a sound-change is completed ( this is amply demonstrated by the history of ( h ) , above ) , and hence the difficulty of saying precisely what is meant by ‘ sound-change ’ . |
| 5 | First , there is the notorious difficulty of deciding whether a case should be categorised as judicial , administrative , executive , etc . |
| 6 | This discrepancy arises from the ever present difficulty of deciding whether a particular cell could be either a lymphocyte or part of a macrophage , neutrophil , or fibroblast . |
| 7 | Courts are likely to be faced with more complex parliamentary history and consequently more difficulty in determining whether a statement may be assumed to demonstrate parliamentary intention . |
| 8 | The justification for the possession offence is preventive , and there is little difficulty in holding that a person caught in possession of explosives with intent to endanger life has sufficiently crossed the threshold of criminality to justify punishment . |