Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be difficult [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For someone who has never had a panic attack it may be difficult to fully empathize with the client , but it may help if you were to consider the following scenario .
2 While it may seem obvious that the anus and rectum of a passive homosexual may be sites of infection and should therefore be examined , it may be difficult for women to understand why this same examination needs to be performed on them .
3 It may be difficult for the modern reader to grasp the emotional effect of his passing upon his people .
4 Self-service means that it may be difficult for customers to get information about a product
5 First , it may be difficult for them to relinquish the closeness and identification with their twin in favour of a marriage partner .
6 It may be difficult for you to make instantaneous response to what is said .
7 Aside from the fact that it may be difficult for the dog to get out of the water or escape from a strong current , the water itself might also be polluted , with equally serious consequences .
8 We therefore attempt to hold the current program " context " in the fast accumulators as the program is executed ; since it may be difficult for a programmer or compiler to establish such a current context at each point , it has been proposed that the accumulator array be replaced by an associative store , and this is discussed in 5.5 .
9 It may be difficult for hospital staff to remember this because they are familiar with the environment and routines .
10 As further children arrive the mother will more and more be taken up with their care and their needs in general ; it may be difficult for her to strike a balance of attention to offspring and husband which will satisfy the needs of all including her own .
11 With the tight government control of the timetable , it may be difficult for the House to switch its programme to debate some urgent topic that occupies the attention of the public .
12 It may be difficult for a medical school , itself relatively small , to plan and implement this .
13 It may be difficult for you to do any more than this if your time with the video machine is very limited , and the only materials you have are non-ELT programmes .
14 But it may be difficult for some people to pretend when they are overwhelmed with anger .
15 it may be difficult for the management of an organisation to accept a matrix structure .
16 A further problem is that the promotion , pay and career development of officials may be outside the control of immediate superiors and hence it may be difficult for the departmental head to have much impact upon the work , the responsibilities , the morale and the development of individuals within the organisation .
17 The seller can give his instructions to the person in actual possession of the goods , but it may be difficult for him to discover who that is , if , for example , the goods are on the railways .
18 So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully .
19 ‘ Alas , ’ El-Gharbi commiserated , ‘ then it may be difficult for you to find the price my information commands in the market . ’
20 Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with .
21 I would like to know erm the two or three buildings I er it may be difficult at this time but how many residents will be in each building ?
22 Because if we actually can address th those real concerns , you know , you know the point that brother just made about why should he leave you to join unison try and crystallize that out in a Northumberland way , if that 's possible , it may not be , it may be difficult on , on a short punchy A five leaflet it will probably service because I mean it c it can be photocopied , there 's nothing wonderful , I mean it does n't have to be sort of the most wonderful printing techniques and giving them desktop publishing .
23 It may be difficult in certain circumstances for the man to understand that she is not consenting . ’
24 Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry .
25 It must be difficult for them to understand when the way that we use ‘ big ’ is so confusing .
26 It must be difficult for many of you to come to terms with new services , strange new songs , guitars and so on .
27 It must be difficult for you — not being completely in charge , ’ she ventured .
28 It must be difficult for you , ’ he said , ‘ surrounded by all these wogs .
29 and you sort of say , do you think it would be useful if we talked about reception because that 's something y you 're not doing quite as frequently but it 's obviously , it must be difficult for you to fit in to that because you 're not doing it all the time .
30 In the latter case it might be difficult to even prove that the building was lived in at all .
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