Example sentences of "[coord] it 's [adv] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | or it 's very difficult to keep it smooth |
| 2 | In all cases a helper is needed , someone strong and active to pull up quite heavy anchors , while the rest of the crew should realise that living in a yacht is like living in a caravan with incredibly soft suspension — and it 's sometimes difficult to hop out for a walk ! |
| 3 | Each of them requires a complete day out to go and visit them and it 's very difficult to find a complete day because there are so many other things , so many other demands on your time . |
| 4 | I do n't drink and it 's very difficult to shut out the stresses of the day . |
| 5 | I know you mean well and I do appreciate all you 're doing , but I really am in the middle of a thought and it 's very difficult for me when you keep … look , if it 's really , really important , then please do interrupt me — but only if it 's urgent , OK ? |
| 6 | and it 's very difficult to have a close look at the shirt without taking the whole thing |
| 7 | And it 's very difficult to deal with . |
| 8 | Undoubtedly , some of you will be , but there must be one or two people who are actually dreading Christmas er bearing in mind that they 've had to ask somebody whom they do n't really want in their house , or perhaps that person or people have asked themselves , and it 's very difficult to know how to refuse is n't it really ? |
| 9 | Again , the A nineteen south has a major highway constraint upon it and it 's very difficult to see how that could be overcome . |
| 10 | But I agree with Stuart , I think what we 've got be careful is that if we 're gon na introduce something , it is actually erm capable of being enforced and it 's very difficult to see us an enforcing agent . |
| 11 | Erm , also I , I wanted to try and cover the main points and it 's very difficult with a subject like that to , to only give you part of the , the story otherwise people would immediately say , well , yes , but you have n't thought about this or that . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's almost 42 and it 's very difficult to keep your fitness and make a comeback at that age . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There is only around five tonnes of newsprint left and it 's very difficult getting supplies into Sarajevo . |
| 14 | if it starts to snow or hailstone , or pour down I want to try and carry the umbrella and it 's very difficult |
| 15 | And it 's very difficult to get other people to do it like you want it . |
| 16 | And it 's very difficult to go from that to something which is much lighter . |
| 17 | And it 's really difficult to believe in things like that ? |
| 18 | In an older house , it can sometimes be difficult to get the shower tray level but it 's always difficult to get a good and permanent seal between the shower tray and the tiled walls . |
| 19 | Really I prefer abstract art , but it 's more difficult to sell . |
| 20 | But it 's often difficult to see for yourself how much is in your account . |
| 21 | I did try , but it 's so difficult . |
| 22 | Dan could hum what he wanted but it 's very difficult to play that sort of thing . ’ |
| 23 | And it may seem strange , but it 's very difficult to be a good composer on the guitar ; rhythmically you are often stuck and you ca n't play a lot of counterpoint rhythms . |
| 24 | ‘ But it 's very difficult . |
| 25 | I mean I do n't wan na make it sound like it 's , i i i it 's , it 's an impossible thing , but it 's very difficult at this stage to forecast , but James ' basic assertion that it is n't a very material number is correct . |
| 26 | But it 's very difficult , I 've got to go through all that , before I can answer her question . |
| 27 | Now obviously you can translate the idea of something being a preventative about illness or sickness , but it 's very difficult to suggest in idiomatic modern English that roses can be a protection against evils , because you really , we really do n't have that kind of concept , normally now , although there are many uses of erm , groups of people who might retain such a concept , and if something like that arises , you obviously ca n't make it idiomatic , because there 's just no way it 's going to work idiomatically in English . |
| 28 | She says after each of these cases people say you should do something but it 's very difficult to see what you could do . |
| 29 | ‘ Some take a month to complete and some only take about a week , but it 's very difficult to put a time on paintings . ’ |
| 30 | But it 's very difficult for parents in those situations perhaps to accept the , the deep-seated nature of their children 's problems , especially if it 's , it 's somewhere connected with the kind of defective relationships they 're having within their own homes . |