Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] be difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either of these can hinder an interview in a way which may be difficult to define after the event . |
| 2 | Regular and systematic analysis of a country 's newspapers can provide information on social trends , which may be difficult to obtain from other sources . |
| 3 | You ought also to allow for weekend cleaning ( how many cleaners will you need ? ) , which may be difficult since the case says that the staff are married women with their own family commitments . |
| 4 | But real developments may demand financial and cultural changes which may be difficult to achieve . |
| 5 | The desire to avoid appeal may partly be a reflection of the fact that standards have been selected by resort to the convention of established — but largely unexamined — practice which may be difficult to defend in a formal arena . |
| 6 | The student 's attention to correct stance , breathing and arm movement must be constant in order to avoid the slide into bad habits , which may be difficult to correct at a later stage . |
| 7 | Fathers who choose instead to commit acts of oral sex or buggery on them will commit no offence save where the girl 's consent , in the narrow , legal sense of the term , is lacking or where it has been obtained by threat , which may be difficult to prove . |
| 8 | This leaves as possible choices Economic value which may be difficult to ascertain , Replacement cost of a similar vehicle , written-down cost , and historic cost . |
| 9 | Which treatment is most appropriate is dependent on the clinical state of the patient and whether the stricture is benign or malignant — information which may be difficult to obtain . |
| 10 | Most of the revisions were based , however , on resection specimens rather than from postoperative pouch biopsies , which may be difficult to interpret in patients with chronic pouchitis . |
| 11 | It is advisable , wherever appropriate , to get managers to certify entries in a learning diary and to include in it references which may be difficult to obtain at a later date . |
| 12 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 13 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 14 | ‘ Leslie might not have the voice he had before , which could be difficult , in his business . ’ |
| 15 | What private letters from an artist can do best is to elucidate what was uppermost in an artist 's mind at the time , often artistic aims which would be difficult to discover otherwise . |
| 16 | As a rule , the examining doctor will be well experienced in dealing with sexual symptoms and problems , and most patients find that they can talk about matters which would be difficult to discuss outside the clinic atmosphere and might even cause embarrassment if raised with their general practitioner . |
| 17 | It was also likely that all incoming correspondence would have to be recorded before circulation in order to maintain system integrity , which would be difficult to control as some correspondence was passed directly to branch officers without being opened in the Registry . |
| 18 | I consider the most likely candidate for forgery is therefore an unknown cylinder or an unknown acetate disc — in other words , a one-off , which would be difficult to compare with the genuine article , because there would be nothing with which to compare it . |
| 19 | He said that bringing in internment would be a very serious step , the consequences of which would be difficult to predict . |
| 20 | However , these are impressions which would be difficult to demonstrate from the archaeological evidence . |
| 21 | ‘ The real value of the CANZ series is that it brings together a group of national level players for two weeks with games against consistently top level opposition which would be difficult to duplicate anywhere else . |
| 22 | Thus , since nothing in the Constitution allows the Federal government to create a welfare system , whereby payments ( or payments in kind ) are made to the residents of the various States , a welfare state system could only be established either through Constitutional Amendment ( which would be difficult both to write and then to enact ) or through successful negotiation with the State governments . |
| 23 | Overall , Mr Whitnall concluded , it was ‘ an opportunity which would be difficult to convert ’ . |
| 24 | Rather more obscure , but equally disastrous , could be the effect of a ‘ malign computer virus ’ introduced into critical systems , which would be difficult to detect , and once ‘ infected ’ , very difficult to remove . |
| 25 | List the sorts of information about a planet that could be obtained by radar and which would be difficult to obtain by other means . |
| 26 | We referred to the 1992 NOP survey which indicated that 13,000,000 people wished to relocate to a rural area , and that this created a powerful demand which would be difficult to satisfy even if the provision of housing was completely unconstrained . |
| 27 | At the time of the interviews , there was a growing feeling in some LEAs that projects had developed unintended procedures which would be difficult to dismantle . |
| 28 | If a company ‘ lost ’ its accounts data , it would represent a serious loss and one which would be difficult to recover from . |
| 29 | If no code is adopted or requirement made , the issue will be whether it was an implied term of the contract that the expert would follow fair procedures , which would be difficult to oppose in general terms , but the exact extent of the duty would always be controversial . |
| 30 | It seems to ignore the way in which existing fares are calculated' including as they do an element of ‘ taper ’ to avoid long journeys made up of several different sectors ‘ bolted together ’ from becoming too high : again something which would be difficult to replicate in a situation where the railways were operated by numerous regional franchises . |