Example sentences of "and it [is] [adv] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's fairly clear when you would use a book or an Overhead Projector or a magazine picture in your teaching and it 's not difficult to see that video makes a different contribution . |
| 2 | Parties and camcorders do seem to go well together , and it 's not difficult to think of reasons why . |
| 3 | In all cases a helper is needed , someone strong and active to pull up quite heavy anchors , while the rest of the crew should realise that living in a yacht is like living in a caravan with incredibly soft suspension — and it 's sometimes difficult to hop out for a walk ! |
| 4 | ‘ There is only around five tonnes of newsprint left and it 's very difficult getting supplies into Sarajevo . |
| 5 | Again , the A nineteen south has a major highway constraint upon it and it 's very difficult to see how that could be overcome . |
| 6 | But I agree with Stuart , I think what we 've got be careful is that if we 're gon na introduce something , it is actually erm capable of being enforced and it 's very difficult to see us an enforcing agent . |
| 7 | And it 's very difficult to go from that to something which is much lighter . |
| 8 | I do n't drink and it 's very difficult to shut out the stresses of the day . |
| 9 | And it 's very difficult to deal with . |
| 10 | and it 's very difficult to have a close look at the shirt without taking the whole thing |
| 11 | And it 's very difficult to get other people to do it like you want it . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly , some of you will be , but there must be one or two people who are actually dreading Christmas er bearing in mind that they 've had to ask somebody whom they do n't really want in their house , or perhaps that person or people have asked themselves , and it 's very difficult to know how to refuse is n't it really ? |
| 13 | Each of them requires a complete day out to go and visit them and it 's very difficult to find a complete day because there are so many other things , so many other demands on your time . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's almost 42 and it 's very difficult to keep your fitness and make a comeback at that age . ’ |
| 15 | And it 's really difficult to believe in things like that ? |
| 16 | Little detail is provided , however , and it is thus difficult to evaluate his work fully . |
| 17 | The defendants at the time of the victims ' deaths were presumably unconscious and it is accordingly difficult to attribute to them any mens rea . |
| 18 | First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept . |
| 19 | Of course , as the sidebands build up , they burn their own holes in the gain and refractive-index spectra , and it is not difficult to envisage the development of pulse shapes as complex as those of Fig. 7.6 , or , indeed , period-doubling and chaos in the pulse train : compare the discussion on passive resonators . |
| 20 | Since the force exerted by the spring is the same at both low and high speeds , this makes it feel rather twitchy , and it is not difficult to overstress the aircraft at high speeds . |
| 21 | The recent Institute statement of intent on continuing professional education has breathed new life into the debate over the cost of structured CPE , and it is not difficult to see why . |
| 22 | For many years there have been proponents of the theory that one of the ‘ lobe-finned ’ fishes included the ancestor of the tetrapods , and it is not difficult to imagine their stumpy fins , with a fleshy core , making the uneasy transition into a walking leg . |
| 23 | But in the late 1150s that night in August 1165 was still far away , and it is not difficult to imagine Louis VII 'S exasperated mood . |
| 24 | Without the Rights of Way Act the only practical solution would be to stop canoeing on that stretch and move elsewhere ( and it is not difficult to imagine where this would eventually lead ! ) |
| 25 | In an early 1950s mining community , husbands kept their wives ' allowances low so that they could skip a shift if they wished , but few wives expected their husbands ‘ to work for nothing ’ and it is not difficult to find examples of wives exercising considerable control over all but the husband 's pocket money . |
| 26 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 27 | In most cases , at least one of the states involved in valence excitation transitions has two unpaired electrons , and it is notoriously difficult to handle such states adequately . |
| 28 | In these circumstances the analyst can not help becoming involved , particularly if he or she has elderly relatives in similar situations , and it is sometimes difficult to retain objectivity . |
| 29 | Fact is frequently mixed with opinion and it is sometimes difficult to establish whether certain evidence is accepted or is merely being discussed . |
| 30 | Oxygen has been omitted because nearly all the oxygen in a planet resides in non-volatile oxides and silicates and it is extremely difficult to estimate how much of this oxygen has been liberated into more volatile forms and conversely how much oxygen originally in volatile forms has been lost by combination with various oxides and silicates . |