Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] is [adv] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little detail is provided , however , and it is thus difficult to evaluate his work fully . |
| 2 | Few visitors are welcome in Indian prisons , and it is particularly difficult for foreigners to achieve access . |
| 3 | Knoydart is a closed book for motorists and for all except walkers equipped with map and compass — and it is even difficult for strong walkers . |
| 4 | The defendants at the time of the victims ' deaths were presumably unconscious and it is accordingly difficult to attribute to them any mens rea . |
| 5 | First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept . |
| 6 | Clearly it is difficult to be dogmatic about faunas of this age , when such short time-spans are involved , and it is also difficult to be sure that particular species are more time-controlled than facies-controlled . |
| 7 | Since the force exerted by the spring is the same at both low and high speeds , this makes it feel rather twitchy , and it is not difficult to overstress the aircraft at high speeds . |
| 8 | For many years there have been proponents of the theory that one of the ‘ lobe-finned ’ fishes included the ancestor of the tetrapods , and it is not difficult to imagine their stumpy fins , with a fleshy core , making the uneasy transition into a walking leg . |
| 9 | If you get it right , and it is not difficult — the ratio of water to biscuits is not critical — the biscuits will turn into lovely , spongy balls of flavoured bait . |
| 10 | The recent Institute statement of intent on continuing professional education has breathed new life into the debate over the cost of structured CPE , and it is not difficult to see why . |
| 11 | But in the late 1150s that night in August 1165 was still far away , and it is not difficult to imagine Louis VII 'S exasperated mood . |
| 12 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 13 | Without the Rights of Way Act the only practical solution would be to stop canoeing on that stretch and move elsewhere ( and it is not difficult to imagine where this would eventually lead ! ) |
| 14 | In an early 1950s mining community , husbands kept their wives ' allowances low so that they could skip a shift if they wished , but few wives expected their husbands ‘ to work for nothing ’ and it is not difficult to find examples of wives exercising considerable control over all but the husband 's pocket money . |
| 15 | Of course , as the sidebands build up , they burn their own holes in the gain and refractive-index spectra , and it is not difficult to envisage the development of pulse shapes as complex as those of Fig. 7.6 , or , indeed , period-doubling and chaos in the pulse train : compare the discussion on passive resonators . |
| 16 | In most cases , at least one of the states involved in valence excitation transitions has two unpaired electrons , and it is notoriously difficult to handle such states adequately . |
| 17 | In these circumstances the analyst can not help becoming involved , particularly if he or she has elderly relatives in similar situations , and it is sometimes difficult to retain objectivity . |
| 18 | Fact is frequently mixed with opinion and it is sometimes difficult to establish whether certain evidence is accepted or is merely being discussed . |
| 19 | There is a tremendous myth about throwing knives — very few people can do it properly and it is extremely difficult to hit a moving target . |
| 20 | Oxygen has been omitted because nearly all the oxygen in a planet resides in non-volatile oxides and silicates and it is extremely difficult to estimate how much of this oxygen has been liberated into more volatile forms and conversely how much oxygen originally in volatile forms has been lost by combination with various oxides and silicates . |
| 21 | In the main I would say these tend to be addressed to parents , doctors or well-meaning teachers , carers , etc. , and it is quite difficult to find a book which talks to you , the anorexic/bulimic/compulsive eater . |
| 22 | Indeed , this is an area of heated debate and it is quite difficult to tease out what is actually going on . |
| 23 | Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it . |
| 24 | Although the survey found a ‘ worsening of tree condition ’ and conifer health was suddenly ‘ only moderate ’ , there was , said Mr Grayson , ‘ No regional pattern of crown condition … and it is therefore difficult to ascribe the findings to a cause such as air pollution ’ |
| 25 | We can hypothesize that he would not have survived the rigorous processes of peer review in the British system and it is exceedingly difficult to envisage him negotiating the hazards of leading a party from the dispatch box in the House of Commons . |
| 26 | Sales are clearly not due to advertising alone , and it is technically difficult to separate the effects of advertising from those of other marketing activity in order to provide an adequate measurement . |
| 27 | The balance between the two varied according to economic circumstances , and it is very difficult for us to reconstruct the nature of these services in detail over a wide area before the thirteenth century . |
| 28 | Knives are now a standard part of the criminal 's equipment and it is very difficult for us to defend ourselves without going beyond the law , but there are ways — as you will see later . |
| 29 | At the moment the economic climate is against artists and it is very difficult to sell anything ; as a result I 'm probably painting less . |
| 30 | They contain contradictory elements , importations and survivals from other cultures , and it is very difficult to delimit them geographically or chronologically . |