Example sentences of "[is] difficult [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's difficult to put my finger on exactly why my response is somewhat cool . |
| 2 | It 's difficult to imagine his rival for so many years , Margaret Thatcher , saying ‘ Hi , kid ’ to anyone . |
| 3 | So common is this way of thinking in social research that it is difficult to recapture its radical and innovative character . |
| 4 | So much of his work has been lost that it is difficult to appreciate its impact , but with the backing of the ambitious mayor , Edmund Lockyer , he extensively transformed both Plymouth itself and its satellite towns of Stonehouse and Devonport . |
| 5 | Although it is difficult to assess its importance , on the eve of the second reading debate a letter appeared in The Times , signed by eight peers , including Lord Devlin . |
| 6 | It is difficult to assess their status . |
| 7 | Although this is a very simple four-dimensional nonlinear system , it is difficult to visualise its attractor . |
| 8 | It is difficult to estimate their pattern of increase thereafter , but by the 1840s a full-grown young woman could earn 15s ( 75p ) a week , and a twelve-year-old girl 2s ( 10p ) . |
| 9 | If criminals on the whole are not clearly differentiated from non-criminals , it is difficult to explain their crime in terms of something having gone wrong with them ( except in the tautological sense that the commission of the crime itself represents something having gone wrong with them ) . |
| 10 | It is difficult to explain my state of mind . |
| 11 | But he rails in such a disgusting way against the play 's characters that it is difficult to accept his view of human life . |
| 12 | One of the problems is that once the commercial sector has been legitimated , it is difficult to limit its growth . |
| 13 | It is difficult to gain their respect as an adult . |
| 14 | To say that it is difficult to get your client 's story into a national newspaper is an understatement . |
| 15 | There will be space here only for the briefest discussion of external forces which have shaped life in Indian prisons , but it is difficult to overestimate their importance . |
| 16 | It is difficult to exaggerate their importance in influencing legislation , government policies and administration and in acting as coordinators and channels of local authority opinion . |
| 17 | Because the advisory service was so deeply enmeshed in PNP , it is difficult to divorce its contribution from the many aspects and contexts of the programme which are discussed elsewhere in this report . |
| 18 | He has guarded fiercely against the band 's tapes being made public but listening to them years on , it is difficult to understand his uneasiness and it seems a loss to fans . |
| 19 | It is difficult to change your status through achievement . |
| 20 | Similarly , it is difficult to construe his distinction between primary and secondary deviance as meaning anything other than that secondary deviance is caused by societal reaction and its consequences for the deviant . |
| 21 | As Fineman acknowledges , the anecdote may not be at odds with the general sense but , as we observe with New Historicism 's use of anecdote , it is difficult to determine its relation to the general with any satisfaction . |