Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] difficult now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One consequence of the blaze in St Pierre was that it is difficult now to diagnose how much of the damage was a direct result of the nuee ardente , and how much a result of the fires it started . |
| 2 | Years of grime from the coal fire had so discoloured the original paintwork that it was difficult now to guess what colour it had been . |
| 3 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 4 | If it is difficult now to concur with the Bioscope reviewer 's judgement that the film ‘ surpasses in technical achievement anything of its kind ever made in Britain , and at times soars to heights of directorial brilliance ’ , it 's still possible to understand how an audience that had been accustomed only to silent films might warm to the various acts on display . |
| 5 | He himself thought The Confidential Clerk to be his most profound play , but it is difficult now to see this . |