Example sentences of "but it [be] difficult [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are obvious advantages of the information which could include better costing , better cash flow , improved customer relations , and it should lead to better decisions being made by management , but it is difficult to put a monetary value on all this . |
| 2 | Mineralogy is another fairly constant sub-discipline , but it is difficult to use the term unambiguously , since there are mineralogical aspects to petrology and geochemistry . |
| 3 | The indirect processes are , usually , the easiest with which to obtain a tolerable result , but it is difficult to use them well . |
| 4 | Such access , which is limited to one byte at a time , is sufficient for setting and reading screen locations or " flags " , but it is difficult to use for building more complicated data structures . |
| 5 | The quartet — a tribute to the Viennese dancer Christi Zimmerl — ends in a touching atmosphere of romantic regret , but it is difficult to sustain one 's interest over the previous five movements . |
| 6 | But it is difficult to draw sound conclusions from it , because ‘ problem families ’ need to be studied alongside ‘ normal families ’ and ‘ successful families ’ if we are to understand how they differ . |
| 7 | Not only does the contradictory nature of the evidence preclude any generalization , but it is difficult to conduct any cross-cultural comparisons because there is no agreement as to what should be compared . |
| 8 | But it is difficult to cook for people every day , especially when there are no other kitchen staff to cover . ’ |
| 9 | The feeling of comfort is basic to a sense of well-being , but it is difficult to define and is often most notable in its absence . |
| 10 | But it is difficult to predict the stages at which progress on a job should be formally monitored . |
| 11 | One Kufran shopkeeper stocked as many blank as recorded cassettes in the period before Western recordings became scarce , but it is difficult to say with certainty that his practice reflected sound commercial sense . |
| 12 | It was his intention to people it with English colonists , but it is difficult to say how far he succeeded , since there is virtually no information about the civilian population of Calais . |
| 13 | But it is difficult to see how we can have sensitivity to plants and rivers , trees and ecosystems if we have no sensitivity to the caged animal , or the animal undergoing product-testing or about to be slaughtered . |
| 14 | There is very little likelihood of confusion arising whichever spelling is used in English documents , though there will be far-reaching consequences , for example in text-books , abstracts , indices , dictionaries , computer programs , and teaching , but it is difficult to see any compensating advantages in adopting the US version . |
| 15 | It may turn out that the differences are an artefact of the methods used in different laboratories , but it is difficult to see what the relevant differences may be . |
| 16 | But it is difficult to see these factors as amounting to an absolute restriction when put against the equally well recorded government support for overcapacity and inefficient working . |
| 17 | But it is difficult to see what this could mean other than that some deviance , at least , would not have occurred had it not been for the societal response — that is , had been caused by it . |
| 18 | However , it also seems clear that it is permissible to argue , in defence to a prosecution for breach of a statute or regulation , that the relevant statutory provision or regulation is ultra vires ; but it is difficult to see how this involves assertion of a ‘ private law right ’ : there is no private law right not to be prosecuted apart from the right not to be prosecuted maliciously . |
| 19 | But it is difficult to see how the section 5 restitutionary remedy could be available against anyone other than the other party to the transaction in question or the party to whom , under the transaction in question , the investor 's money or property had been paid or transferred . |
| 20 | But it is difficult to see how normative assessments of these variations can be made . |
| 21 | Not only that but it is difficult to see how useful a consolidated balance sheet really is when funds are not fungible . |
| 22 | The boat trip should have provided some respite but it is difficult to see how . |
| 23 | It seems that this tax charge does not actually cancel out the potential tax charge referred to above but it is difficult to see how there can be double tax problems because there can only be a charge on monies remitted to the United Kingdom and this can not extend beyond the amounts actually available to be so remitted . |
| 24 | The entertainment value for the people who paid to watch was non-existent , but it is difficult to criticise the players who tried their best in the conditions . ’ |
| 25 | Power is lacking , and the user has to be patient to get results , but it is difficult to complain for the average selling price of just over £60 . |
| 26 | It is certainly interesting for specialists to see this odd and disagreeable picture , whose attribution was upheld by Roberto Longhi , but it is difficult to detect any point of contact between it and the other exhibits assigned to Giorgione at Palazzo Grassi . |
| 27 | Sexual discrimination is , of course , very common , but it is difficult to detect and women do n't make official complaints . |
| 28 | Visitors will at least be reminded that Venetian art in this period was not an entirely closed world , and that Giorgione 's career is far from being fully understood , but it is difficult to escape the conclusion that now is not the moment , and an exhibition of this kind is not the ideal place to explore such art-historical problems . |
| 29 | But it is difficult to imagine America 's corporate leaders advocating a crackdown on executive wining-and-dining , even for the Japanese . |
| 30 | But it is difficult to imagine that shaikhs had more power in the pre-Sanusi period than in the 1970s : if anything , accretions of status increased their authority during the Italian government and the kingdom ( so that a shaikh was an obvious candidate for the office of al-mukhtar al-mahalli ) . |