Example sentences of "it is difficult for [pers pn] " in BNC.

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31 It is difficult for us now to understand how it was that so many serious thinkers in those days were prophetically-minded .
32 Even then , when others were talking of fusion reactors being just around the corner , Cockcroft warmed that ‘ it is difficult for us with our limited vision to see far enough ahead to say whether and when the final goal can be achieved .
33 For people of my generation , children of the sixties , sex and freedom are so inextricably connected that it is difficult for us to accept that someone can be totally uninhibited in bed and still have a Reader 's Digest mentality .
34 They are , quite clearly , highly organized and know what they are about , though it is difficult for us to reach into their world and see it from their point of view .
35 It is difficult for us to imagine the characteristics of wines described by critics writing a mere generation ago , let alone those of wines described centuries ago .
36 The psychologist Abraham Maslow concluded that , if these basic physical and security needs are not satisfied , it is difficult for us to fulfil our higher needs .
37 Not surprisingly it is difficult for us to decide both how good and how genuinely popular all live variety was , let alone its precise relationship to the new entertainment of the movies .
38 A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it .
39 It is difficult for us today to enter fully into the power that those ancient rituals must have generated , but anyone who has attended a religious revival meeting with its emphasis on repentance , tears and rebirth is in touch with the same forces .
40 Sometimes , you see , it is difficult for us . ’
41 It is difficult for us to acknowledge that violence and destruction , on both sides , are expressions of ‘ rational ’ behaviour ; that ‘ reason ’ may be at the heart of violence .
42 It is difficult for us to see what Polybius added to his history after 146 , but where the additions are clear the anxiety and the warning are equally clear .
43 In our economy , where we are so familiar with money , it is difficult for us to envisage any other ways in which goods can be acquired , but in the past all sorts of mechanisms were employed and the same is true in the Third World today .
44 It is difficult for us to imagine now , but at the time this was a revolutionary book , not only because it put a new type of archaeological field monument , the deserted medieval village ( DMV ) , firmly on the map , but also because it heralded a new era in the study of rural settlements in this country .
45 And under the present present planning framework it is difficult for us to do .
46 It is difficult for it to distinguish between one sort of pain and another , when trying to work out what is going wrong .
47 It is difficult for you to foresee at the beginning of your programme just how you will feel , what things will happen , which goals might prove harder than anticipated .
48 If it is difficult for you to get to the post office , the coloured pages in the book explain how someone else can draw the payment for you .
49 If it is difficult for you to visit because of travel costs please discuss this with your social worker as we can usually help with your fares .
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