Example sentences of "[adv] difficult [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more difficult to see is whether Katsikas requires the UK government to amend the law so as to protect the employee 's freedom to refuse to transfer . |
| 2 | What will be more difficult to sustain is the expectation that labour should show total dedication to work now that lifetime employment is becoming ever more the exception . |
| 3 | More difficult to judge is the impact of productivity growth on the size of the labour force . |
| 4 | More difficult to explain is how the heat release from the thermohaline circulation ( down wind of North America ) contributed to the North American ice-sheet collapse . |
| 5 | Even more difficult to explain is the occurrence of banding on the inside of the shell ( Fig. 15 ) . |
| 6 | More difficult to assess is the toxic reaction of an odour , that is an effect ‘ which may influence survival or which produces unfavourable changes in the gross and microscopic appearance of organs or tissues or in the entire organism ’ . |
| 7 | Even more difficult to assess is the extent to which and in what ways religion might be important to people . |
| 8 | More difficult to specify is product design though many examples are cited in the literature . |
| 9 | What is much more difficult to know is what were his motives for the decision , and what he expected to be the likely outcome . |
| 10 | More difficult to determine is the extent to which aid has freed resources for consumption , and so done little to increase investment levels in the manner envisaged by Rostow or Chenery . |
| 11 | The fact that these emotions exist in industrial and other enterprises and that the ego finds ways of defending against bad experiences is not at issue ; what is more difficult to establish is the complex way in which these feelings are dealt with . |
| 12 | What is more difficult to establish is whether the first building was inhabited for a while , demolished just after the inhabitants moved out , immediately paved over , and a new building later constructed ; or whether the first building was inhabited for a while , abandoned by its inhabitants for many years , then collapsed through decay , was paved over later on , and then a second building constructed . |
| 13 | Even more difficult to establish is the relative economic importance of individual small towns in the regional and urban hierarchy to what extent was a small town or village dependent on its major neighbours , and how much did the larger towns and cities rely on supplies from the former ? |
| 14 | I suppose the feature on this guitar that would be most difficult to miss is the distinctive string anchorage . |
| 15 | I hope to show that the incompetence that is most difficult to correct is tightly coupled with skilfulness . |
| 16 | The most interesting library and the most difficult to understand is the ROBERT BLAIR MEMORIAL library in Portnahaven . |
| 17 | Now um I suppose in that context um one of the things that makes this perhaps rather difficult to understand is the way in which y'know kind of when you look at children playing , when you talk to children , they 'll often express a good deal of curiosity about sexuality um both to each-other and to adults . |
| 18 | Once a man is sexually aroused and is quite it is quite difficult to stop is n't it ? |
| 19 | there are but I mean it 's it 's silly for people to say once a man is sexually aroused it 's quite difficult to stop is n't it ? |
| 20 | But staying awake sometimes is very , very difficult to do is n't it ? |