Example sentences of "[conj] it is difficult [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it is due to muddy ground where it is difficult for players to get a good grip with their studs , or by a player slipping in the front row . |
| 2 | Now , they were combined and synthesized on aesthetic principles which apparently did not always depend on the content of the subject matter , although it is difficult to be certain in an area such as this . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ I am enjoying it although it is difficult for me with the customers as I do n't know the shop . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Staffing is now so minimal that it is difficult to second staff on a regular basis for internal training ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Staffing is now so minimal that it is difficult to second staff on a regular basis for internal training ’ … |
| 6 | In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help . |
| 7 | This means for the neighbourhood man , the man on the beat , that it is difficult for him to keep a low profile . |
| 8 | Modern houses have so many labour-saving devices that it is difficult for the person at home to have adequate exercise by doing chores , cooking , and looking after a family . |
| 9 | The stock response to such qualms is that it is difficult for humans to grasp a time scale of such length . |
| 10 | One of the main problems in the discussion of the political economy of soil erosion is that it is difficult for author and reader alike to span the great variety and complexity of circumstances ( both physical and social ) under which soil erosion occurs . |
| 11 | Heading up high means that it is difficult for anyone to pass since you can always bear away down on to them , forcing them to sail in your dirty wind . |
| 12 | Far from being a luxury or a peripheral activity , music often meets basic needs : ‘ There exist a good many people for whom music is so important that it is difficult for them to conceive of life without it . |
| 13 | For people of my generation , children of the sixties , sex and freedom are so inextricably connected that it is difficult for us to accept that someone can be totally uninhibited in bed and still have a Reader 's Digest mentality . |
| 14 | To ensure that each person has a turn , but that it is difficult for those playing to predict when their number is coming up , I have a system of calling the numbers out . |
| 15 | A management may be such that it is difficult for the worker to identify in any way with them . |
| 16 | Most business people receive so much correspondence that it is difficult for them to deal with all their correspondence immediately on receipt . |
| 17 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 18 | The result is that more rather than fewer cases are created , with staff conforming rather than innovating , for they realize that it is difficult for their superiors to complain of their being too efficient or too industrious . |
| 19 | The strategy is that it is difficult for a predator to home in on its target in the confusion which follows an attack on a shoal which scatters in all directions . |
| 20 | I think that he knows that it is difficult for the Government to accept any proposal before the question of Community law is resolved , and also that his proposals are relatively controversial . |
| 21 | Does the hon. Gentleman really wish to imply that it is difficult for young children to buy cigarettes from a local corner shop ? |
| 22 | The UK Parliament is certainly not widely regarded as being at all competent in the scrutiny which it exercises over public spending , and few people are under the illusion that it is difficult for government departments to deceive MPs and Select Committees about necessary levels of expenditure and unnecessary levels of waste . |
| 23 | The hilarious final rush of actions dominates the tale , and may provide a form of comic catharsis by which not only are potentially grave moral images and considerations emptied of their solemnity , but also the sympathy that it is difficult at times not to feel for the poor dupe , John , faithfully and helplessly in love with his wife , is overwhelmed by the sheer absurdity of this all-embracing climax . |
| 24 | Another problem is that it is difficult in some cases to know whether a word has one , or more than one , suffix ( e.g. should we analyse ‘ personality ’ , from the point of view of stress assignment , as + or as + + ? ) . |
| 25 | ‘ A man may deposit on his land excrement which is foul smelling and a nuisance , but it may be that the evil effects wear off in twenty-four to forty-eight hours so it is difficult for a local authority to serve an abatement notice and prove that the nuisance was still in existence when service was made , whereas now , once the deposit is made and is indeed a statutory nuisance , then the statutory nuisance has occurred , and if the local authority are satisfied it will occur again they may serve a prohibition notice ’ . |
| 26 | It has a more compact cellular structure so it is difficult for moisturisers to work well on the epidermis . |
| 27 | Furthermore , none of the alleys are straight , so it is difficult for bowlers to be accurate . |
| 28 | On this type of water it can become the luck of the draw with so many small fish out numbering the larger carp and it is difficult to be selective . |
| 29 | The Roman emperors of the later third century AD made very similar coins at a number of mints , and it is difficult to be sure about their correct attribution . |
| 30 | Parents ' groups come and go whether or not there are CMHTs and it is difficult to be precise about the CMHT contribution in this field . |