Example sentences of "and it [is] [adv] difficult [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Again , the A nineteen south has a major highway constraint upon it and it 's very difficult to see how that could be overcome . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And it 's very difficult to go from that to something which is much lighter . |
| 5 | I do n't drink and it 's very difficult to shut out the stresses of the day . |
| 6 | And it 's very difficult to deal with . |
| 7 | and it 's very difficult to have a close look at the shirt without taking the whole thing |
| 8 | And it 's very difficult to get other people to do it like you want it . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's almost 42 and it 's very difficult to keep your fitness and make a comeback at that age . ’ |
| 12 | And it 's really difficult to believe in things like that ? |
| 13 | Little detail is provided , however , and it is thus difficult to evaluate his work fully . |
| 14 | The defendants at the time of the victims ' deaths were presumably unconscious and it is accordingly difficult to attribute to them any mens rea . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Fact is frequently mixed with opinion and it is sometimes difficult to establish whether certain evidence is accepted or is merely being discussed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There is a tremendous myth about throwing knives — very few people can do it properly and it is extremely difficult to hit a moving target . |
| 21 | Indeed , this is an area of heated debate and it is quite difficult to tease out what is actually going on . |
| 22 | In the main I would say these tend to be addressed to parents , doctors or well-meaning teachers , carers , etc. , and it is quite difficult to find a book which talks to you , the anorexic/bulimic/compulsive eater . |
| 23 | Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it . |
| 24 | Although the survey found a ‘ worsening of tree condition ’ and conifer health was suddenly ‘ only moderate ’ , there was , said Mr Grayson , ‘ No regional pattern of crown condition … and it is therefore difficult to ascribe the findings to a cause such as air pollution ’ |
| 25 | We can hypothesize that he would not have survived the rigorous processes of peer review in the British system and it is exceedingly difficult to envisage him negotiating the hazards of leading a party from the dispatch box in the House of Commons . |
| 26 | Sales are clearly not due to advertising alone , and it is technically difficult to separate the effects of advertising from those of other marketing activity in order to provide an adequate measurement . |
| 27 | This is true , but even Daly would not exclude preglacial subsidence and it is very difficult to demonstrate the date of subsidence in many examples . |
| 28 | They contain contradictory elements , importations and survivals from other cultures , and it is very difficult to delimit them geographically or chronologically . |
| 29 | A good round followed by a poor one often means a missed cut , and it is very difficult to put two rounds together on consecutive days if you have not been used to doing so . |
| 30 | ‘ There is a lot of denial and it is very difficult to talk about the abuse when it is happening to you , especially if you are a researcher as you do n't have much contact with the person on a regular basis , ’ Ogg says . |