Example sentences of "[pron] it [is] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 5 speed Rover gearbox tends to chatter when running light , but without hearing yours it is difficult to say if it is louder than normal . |
| 2 | He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not . |
| 3 | Losing your job as a result of a redundancy programme will often be a demoralising blow from which it is difficult to recover . |
| 4 | IL is a judgement with which it is difficult to quibble . |
| 5 | But , as Neal has noted ( 1981 , no.87 ) , these are very simple patterns on which it is difficult to base any conclusions regarding authorship . |
| 6 | The Evangelicals usually honoured Cranmer , but Macaulay did not , writing , somewhat unfairly , ‘ The sanguinary intolerance of a man who then wavered in his Creed excites a loathing to which it is difficult to give vent without calling foul names . ’ |
| 7 | I was lucky with the aperitif , a campari , which it is difficult to destroy . |
| 8 | One thing which it is difficult to deny is that military strength was vital for Muscovite survival in this massive frontier land . |
| 9 | The ‘ Directions for Waiting ’ and ‘ House Rules ’ are two from which it is difficult to move on . |
| 10 | Similarly , if your problem is one of poor ventilation leading to a steamy or smoke-filled room in which it is difficult to see anything , the solution is obviously an air extractor . |
| 11 | However , it is worth noting that the London Basin is interrupted by a well-known series of uplifts stretching from the Thames Estuary to Windsor which it is difficult to account for without postulating a further line of basement dislocations , possibly Variscan in origin . |
| 12 | In section 265 , for example , terms such as ‘ domiciled , ’ ‘ personally present , ’ ‘ ordinarily resident , ’ have had attributed to them , both in the context of bankruptcy and in that of civil procedure generally , a wealth of refined construction which it is difficult to suppose Parliament did not intend equally to apply when those words were used in the Act of 1986 . |
| 13 | Some goods with external benefits , from which it is difficult to exclude people , possess a further characteristic : the consumption of their benefits by one person does not reduce the amount available for others . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That such agreement underlies the working of the language game is likely to be overlooked until one comes up against a disagreement which it is difficult to regard as one of opinion . |
| 16 | Though his press lasted only eight years , it gave an impetus to later fine work which it is difficult to overestimate . |
| 17 | The wires on telephones are of a type to which it is difficult to make connections but there should be no difficulty if the pieces of screw terminal block are used as shown . |
| 18 | However , the limited extent of this research , combined with the different questions explored by different methods , leave a substantial number of issues on which it is difficult to make definitive statements . |
| 19 | It is true that these processes may well have a spatial expression in a specific situation , but there are others to which it is difficult to attribute any physical manifestation , or by definition which can not have a spatial expression at all . |
| 20 | Indeed the size of the profession means that actuaries have a strong sense of fellowship which it is difficult to achieve in other professions with memberships numbering many tens of thousands . |
| 21 | For individual schools a pregnant teenager is still a relatively rare occurrence and one in which it is difficult to cater for all the physical , medical , social , residential and educational needs of the prospective mother and baby . |
| 22 | There are other goods which are held in common ownership , such as the air , the sea and common land , which it is difficult to prevent people from using because property rights in them are not assigned to individual owners . |
| 23 | It really is exciting and something which it 's difficult to express and even better if we can do something for Herefordshire and bring back a winner . |
| 24 | When it 's all happening around you it 's difficult to step back and get a clear perspective . |
| 25 | It 's actually quite a deep lecture theatre , I think it 's probably the biggest the University possesses outside the great hall , and er it it 's difficult to get them large enough so that everyone can see at the back . |