Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] is difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council incompletely straddles two census tracts and ‘ officially ’ defined neighbourhoods : Perry South and California Kirkbride , and so it is difficult to establish the representativeness of its membership , although owner-occupancy rates were around half that of the active membership in both census tracts . |
| 2 | The problem with books are that they date very quickly and so it is difficult to get up to the minute advice . |
| 3 | Moreover , it is difficult for anyone but the manager to have available all the information he or she has taken into account at the point of decision , and hence it is difficult to monitor the manager . |
| 4 | Similarly when children have been ill , parental expectations of their behaviour changes , and sometimes it is difficult to re-establish previous patterns of sleep and feeding when a parent is unsure whether the child is fully recovered . |
| 5 | The problem is that the effects of apposition , like those of repetition , vary , and consequently it is difficult to identify the difference in terms of a single classification . |
| 6 | Barthes 's distinction between language and metalanguage depends on a clear distinction between denotative and connotative levels of meaning and yet it is difficult to sustain these as independent categories . |
| 7 | The assumption itself may patently be wrong , but nevertheless it is difficult for people in superior positions to realize that they are just as fallible as those below . |
| 8 | I try hard not to show off my privileged position but again it is difficult , because sometimes there is jealousy . |
| 9 | There were numerous poems written about country estates in the eighteenth century , but again it is difficult to know how many of these Leapor read , though she must have read some . |
| 10 | It conformed exactly to the specification , but otherwise it is difficult to understand the award , unless it was the impressiveness of Coe 's presentation that swayed the lay judges . |