Example sentences of "is difficult [to-vb] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This , ’ comments Nicol , ‘ is difficult to justify as the problem is due to falling oestrogen and nothing else . ’ |
| 2 | There are times when it is difficult to decide whether a syllable or word has one or two lengthened segments , if it is the vowel or the consonant that is lengthened , or both . |
| 3 | It is difficult to decide whether the audience or the speaker was more degraded by participation in these ‘ homage-giving ’ events . |
| 4 | The first is that universities appear to be becoming less autonomous than before , and the polytechnics and some of the larger colleges more , although it is difficult to decide whether the latter , recently removed from local government control and granted corporate status with central funding , are being ‘ nationalized ’ or ‘ privatized ’ . |
| 5 | It is difficult to decide whether the " loosening [ of ] the unity under siege of the period 1945 – 53 " which followed the concordat and the Pacts of Madrid was a deliberate continuation by Franco of the controlled internal jockeying he had presided over since 1936 , or a sign that he was being gradually overtaken by the speed of events . |
| 6 | At this stage it is difficult to assess whether the potential benefits to accounts users which may arise from improvements in audit judgments and financial reporting as a result of regulation can be justified against the costs , particularly at the smaller end of the market . |
| 7 | Fringe benefits are also more significant for workers in large companies although their exact size is difficult to estimate because the Welfare Facilities Survey covers only the 50 per cent of labour in firms employing more than 30 workers . |
| 8 | Cochrane argues that it is difficult to see whether the direction of change can be described as " post-Fordist " at all since the changes incorporate contradictory tendencies . |
| 9 | It is difficult to predict whether the properties of the polypeptide of interest will be affected by the presence of GST and IgG binding domains in the fusion proteins . |
| 10 | It is difficult to say whether the rewards of office increased in real terms during the Tudor period . |
| 11 | It is difficult to judge if the Air Force and NASA got good value for the $ 1,700 million they spent — $ 13.17 million per flight . |
| 12 | If you find that it is difficult to knit after the stitches are crossed , push up the back bed needle marked X on the row before the transfer the release the loop from this needle and put the needle into non-working position . |
| 13 | Comparison of ‘ An Ode on Mercy ’ in the first volume and the version printed with the subscription proposals also reveals differences , though again it is difficult to know whether the editor of that volume was following Leapor 's manuscript in preference to a version corrected possibly by Garrick . |
| 14 | But like all these sorts of research findings it is difficult to know whether the accountants became cautious as a result of their training or whether the cautious attitude developed in the family as children . |
| 15 | It is difficult to know whether the increasing participation of Third World women in managerial , technical and professional employment in TNCs in the Third World is simply pan of the ‘ indigenization ’ process of replacing expatriate with local personnel , or whether it is a qualitatively different phenomenon in its own right . |
| 16 | Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether a ceiling is badly cracked because people cover them up with ceiling paper or tiles . |
| 17 | It is our belief that the idea of a grammar as a theory , subject at every point to testing and criticism , is difficult to establish unless the student is in a position to contrast it with another . |
| 18 | Ideally speaking , one of the electrodes should be at a site where no activity occurs at all and then the amplified signal would represent the total activity at the area of interest ; in practice this state of affairs is difficult to achieve since no site is entirely free from underlying neural activity . |
| 19 | Consistency is difficult to achieve if the policies are in competition with other priorities at local level . |
| 20 | Indeed it is an important priority to generate new data which make ethnicity visible , because on the basis of existing evidence it is difficult to distinguish whether the different patterns of support which we can see in minority ethnic kin groups are likely to persist as patterns of settlement stabilize . |
| 21 | When time-out is difficult to administer because the child is strong , the parent ( i.e. a major source of reinforcement ) could remove herself ( together with a magazine ) to the bathroom — coming out only when all is quiet . |
| 22 | While this analysis was being made against the background of a worsening position for NHS funding , it is difficult to determine whether the development moneys will be lost as the critics maintain . |
| 23 | As with the Cupids mosaic , it is difficult to ascertain whether the Lion and Stag mosaic is the work of more than one craftsman . |