Example sentences of "and [conj] it is difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically these are pure public goods which can jointly benefit many people and where it is difficult to exclude people from the benefits . |
| 2 | However , Lea points out that for writers like Gilroy racism is embodied in the conscious policies and practices of the police as an institution and that it is difficult to argue that the police are de-politicising black struggles , and criminalising them , when some of them , such as the Spaghetti House siege , used crime to obtain political funds , and hence the police responded to the event as crime . |
| 3 | He further argues that with multiple measures there is a danger of losing focus , and that it is difficult to set targets for some indicators because there are no historical data on them . |
| 4 | If the assumption of opportunism is something you regard as an unnecessarily cynical view of human nature , note that its importance requires only that some , not all , people behave in this way and that it is difficult to tell who is opportunistic and who is not . |
| 5 | The trade in plutonium between Britain and the US has shown that two countries that proclaim their peaceful intentions as loudly as any are not beyond suspicion and that it is difficult to believe assurances that nuclear power stations have no weapons connection . |
| 6 | The rich carving of the High Altar is by Johann Ferdinand Schorr and although it is difficult to see without binoculars , above the High Altar is a painting depicting the victory of the Battle of the White Mountain , showing the Carmelites holding aloft the small icon of the Madonna . |
| 7 | 1.1 Inaccessibility The question of the extent to which the information must be inaccessible to the public has arisen in widely differing situations and although it is difficult to formulate any more specific statement of principle than that of Lord Greene MR in Saltman , it is useful to consider some of the cases . |
| 8 | It has been found that the intake of nutrients in the diet declines markedly in old age , and whilst it is difficult to determine to what extent this is caused by , or is the cause of , increased physical disease , the connection with elderly health is known to be significant . |