Example sentences of "[conj] it 's difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | In true Eko fashion the guitars have bound fingerboards , zero frets and aluminium nuts/string-guides , and although it 's difficult to be sure , the fingerboard material is so dense and dark — almost black — that it could well be that rare and prized commodity , Brazilian , or Rio , rosewood . |
| 2 | Volume shipments will start in July , at $1,231 apiece for quantities of over 10,000 — although it 's difficult to conceive of any third party able to forecast that it will ship 10,000 machines during the lifetime of the chip , and even the most optimistic parallel processor builder could hardly hope to ship that many nodes in any foreseeable time-frame . |
| 3 | Their two main disadvantages are that they can discolour with time unless an ultra-violet light stabiliser is incorporated in the plastic , and that it 's difficult to fit security devices to them ( make sure good locks are fitted as standard by the manufacturer and frames are strengthened ) . |
| 4 | The trouble about starting a very small business is that it 's difficult to do things of any great originality , because you do n't have the buying power or maybe the manufacturing base to really get the thing off the ground . |
| 5 | We plumped for crimson and pinks with black , white and silver , and remember that it 's difficult for anyone to avoid using green ! |
| 6 | We play football and I score a goal , mainly because everyone except Stewpid is playing so badly that it 's difficult to miss … . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not saying that women ca n't raise sons on their own , I 'm saying that it 's difficult for a woman to teach , and very near impossible , in my mind , for a woman to teach a young boy how to be a man . |
| 8 | No one denies that it 's difficult to diet , especially at the beginning . |
| 9 | The only technical difficulty is that it 's difficult in a family where there 's two children perhaps one 's well off and can pay , and the other ca n't , so you you 've got technical problems there . |
| 10 | The truth of the matter is that it 's difficult enough to see the difference between a 32k colour rendition of a picture and a 24 bit one ( 16 million colours ) , so it 's all but impossible to see any difference between a 32k and a 64k colour image . |
| 11 | The auditing profession er argues , and I must say the audit practice board 's er er proposals are very , for very passive auditing , the audit profession argues that it 's difficult to detect fraud but on the other hand er the local government er act er local government finance act of nineteen eighty two requires local authority auditors to have er er er a duty to search for unlawful acts and report on them . |
| 12 | Both the exhibition and the Show reminded us forcibly that it 's difficult to get away from politics in China . |
| 13 | Just those and erm small and that it 's difficult to find , those are like the very small ones , they have a picture on there . |
| 14 | I think the difficulty with taking a a site approach is that it 's difficult erm to assess what the employment benefits are of something that you 're not sure about . |
| 15 | Well I think that it 's difficult to say exactly what kind of an institution the European Parliament will turn out to be . |
| 16 | Home : I live between New York , Paris and Germany so it 's difficult to say which is home , but I always have things with me that make even a hotel room feel like home . |
| 17 | Ericsson has made a number of 286-compatible PCs , so it 's difficult to say which way you get into the setup , but here are a few possibilities : |
| 18 | You do n't say what video card is fitted to your machine so it 's difficult to speculate any further . |
| 19 | Although you have to put up with the pain for a shorter time , you may not have any real build-up to it — suddenly , strong contractions hit you — so it 's difficult to pace yourself and put into practice the breathing exercises you rehearsed so carefully at antenatal classes . |
| 20 | But erm so , so it 's difficult to know exactly what 's happening now , and unless I see it in the office . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , of course , Mrs Thrigg is n't much of a word-merchant so it 's difficult to get anything exact out of her . |
| 22 | I 've only been to see one game so far this season , so it 's difficult for me to judge , but maybe some of you who 've been more often could speculate ? |
| 23 | The 26-valve GTi pales into insignificance against this car and it 's difficult to see how the three-door Rallye road car could convincingly better this Golf stablemate . |
| 24 | However , it 's not easy to drive nails exactly where you want them , especially into walls , and it 's difficult to get them out again once they 're in . |
| 25 | But you got into the Soviet Union and it 's difficult at first for me to get emotionally connected to the story . |
| 26 | My mother , who came from a staunchly ‘ church ’ family , used to express her antipathy when she often declared , ‘ He 's nothing but a chapel dodger , ’ and it 's difficult to describe the scorn that she would put into the phrase . |
| 27 | ‘ Actually , we do n't like to talk about her much , ’ says the Other One , ‘ because she 's ‘ biggish ’ , and it 's difficult hiding her away in videos . ’ |
| 28 | Their two main disadvantages are that they can discolour with time unless an ultra-violet light stabiliser is incorporated in the plastic , and it 's difficult to fit security devices to them ( so make sure good locks are fitted as standard ) . |
| 29 | It is not advisable to attempt this walk in conditions of poor visibility since the plateau is featureless and it 's difficult to know when you are close to the Ben Crom crags . |
| 30 | If you can make out the lyrics — and it 's difficult enough to find a song in this aural tirade — you 'll be subconsciously ordered to slaughter small children on the bus home . |