Example sentences of "is difficult [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing which it is difficult to deny is that military strength was vital for Muscovite survival in this massive frontier land . |
| 2 | One reason that prostate infection is difficult to treat is that the prostate is not a single gland but a bundle of many tiny glands , each of which discharge fluid on orgasm . |
| 3 | What is difficult to monitor is the extent to which ‘ language work ’ for primary teachers is provision of literacy teaching skills that are required for all primary teachers , analogous to the methods work of specialist language teachers . |
| 4 | One of the problems that will be encountered is that we may find words which are obviously complex but which , when we divide them into stem + affix , turn out to have a stem that it is difficult to imagine is an English word . |
| 5 | Even the Greatest himself , Cassius Clay , alias Muhammed Ali , who seemed to have had a highly successful career during which a minimal number of punches were landed to his head , has suffered a brain condition which it is difficult to believe is unconnected with his trade . |
| 6 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 7 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 8 | The great majority of French fabliaux too are to be found in manuscripts that contain extensive collections of fabliaux , and other genres , reflecting a development in manuscript production of the thirteenth century that it is difficult to believe is not connected in some general way to the growth of scholarly " compilations " ( compilationes ) at the same time . |
| 9 | What is difficult to establish is whether the job attracts the sort of goal profiles that are suitable or whether the individual is attracted by the job and then develops a profile suitable to it . |