Example sentences of "it would have been difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of the teaching staff who had worked on the proposal were keen to be involved in the process , and it would have been difficult to leave anyone out . |
| 2 | It would have been difficult to estimate the extent of this use of cassettes even if the events had not been so emotionally charged . |
| 3 | The King hardly needed to have a net laid for him , but had he done so it would have been difficult to assemble , almost in his own backyard , a more obvious team of trappers . |
| 4 | I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside . |
| 5 | If , say , only 100,000 out of the 200,000 gallons had deteriorated , it would have been difficult to allocate the loss as between seller and buyer . |
| 6 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 7 | It did not touch as many people as it does today and it would have been difficult to see precisely what kind of partisan gloss could have been put on the matter . |
| 8 | There was a good deal of shrubbery trailed up the sides and it would have been difficult to see us by a casual glance along the terrace . |
| 9 | It would have been difficult to survive doing everything as we were 10 years ago , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Even if , however there had been a decline in the personal savings ratio , it would have been difficult to attribute it to taxation rates . |
| 11 | Dr Reid added that it would have been difficult to suggest any change in the administration of antibiotics . |
| 12 | It would have been difficult to accept if he had been killed so young in a car crash , but when it was so senseless … ‘ |
| 13 | Certainly this method of drawing has not been seen at a later date , and it would have been difficult to produce this quality and style of work in quantity . |
| 14 | The wood was thick , the undergrowth covered in snow ; even in summer it would have been difficult to follow the trackway . |
| 15 | After several months of working full eight-hour shifts , the constables frequently forgot that an outsider was present , or no longer cared , and the fieldworker experienced moments when it would have been difficult to maintain a front . |
| 16 | ‘ A few years ago we thought the Butter Market could have been made into a little museum but it would have been difficult to cross the roads into it . ’ |
| 17 | It would have been difficult to develop Netherton as a settlement before the building of the mill leat enabled the draining of the stream from its marshy site . |
| 18 | ‘ There was so much wrong anyway with the performance it would have been difficult to know where to start . ’ |
| 19 | A short time ago , it would have been difficult to imagine that the Conservative Party in Parliament would be in open revolt against bishops of the Church of England . |