Example sentences of "it is [adv] difficult [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it is rather difficult to know whether this is support for Krashen 's proposal or not , but it certainly implies the separation of the process of meaning construction from the determination of final output form . |
| 2 | It is equally difficult to deny that the radioactive fall-out from a nuclear explosion in fact consists of a cloud of poisonous gases . |
| 3 | Apart from the problems of precisely delimiting areas that are experiencing desertification , it is equally difficult to determine whether or not rates of desertification are increasing . |
| 4 | It is even difficult to say that a very rich person could be compensated in money terms ; thus , however heinous the libel , such a person should get not more than a nominal sum and his costs . |
| 5 | Many people believe they know what is meant by orientalism , yet it is notoriously difficult to comprehend and to write about the whole of this protean subject . |
| 6 | However , it is notoriously difficult to capture and exhibit any legal theorist who unequivocally espouses formalism , that is who insists that the application of the general principles and rules of law to particular cases is a matter of deductive reasoning and nothing else . |
| 7 | It is also difficult to say whether a change at the top would affect the Direction des Musées de France at the heart of the Ministry of Culture . |
| 8 | It is also difficult to establish when the damage occurred . |
| 9 | But at this juncture another major problem emerges , in that it is very difficult to demonstrate that there is an established libertarian Conservative tradition with which Thatcherism and the new right can be matched . |
| 10 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |
| 11 | It is very difficult to ascertain whether the many companies which use ROI do use it in the way proposed . |
| 12 | Firstly , before documents are available which give a general comparison and assessment at one date across an area ( like Domesday Book or a medieval Lay Subsidy ) it is very difficult to know whether all the sites we are comparing as part of our settlement pattern are contemporary . |
| 13 | I find this poem not as effective as ‘ Futility ’ in getting its message across as there does not seem to be much emotion in it and it is very difficult to understand and that takes away much of the effect . |
| 14 | It is often difficult to determine whether the SPR is reporting a failure in the software , a misunderstanding , or a failure in delivered instructions . |
| 15 | It is often difficult to determine whether the SPR is reporting a failure in the software , a misunderstanding , or a failure in delivered instructions . |
| 16 | It is often difficult to establish if a site is liable to flooding and it can be easily overlooked during the site investigation . |
| 17 | The receipt of such a bonus has an effect far outside the regular annual rise , which again in the case of ICI is a matter of such Byzantine complexity that it is often difficult to know whether one is getting a good or a bad one ! |
| 18 | IT IS sometimes difficult to remember that company directors are merely the custodians of their shareholders ' money , rather than the owners of the business free to do with it what they will . |
| 19 | But they vary considerably in their anatomy and , as is often the case when considering the simpler members of a group , it is sometimes difficult to decide whether a characteristic represents a truly primitive survival or is secondarily reduced to suit a particular way of life . |
| 20 | Although it is sometimes difficult to decide how an objective can be measured , an obvious objective can be cited in terms of increased sales , although it is sometimes difficult to determine whether such an increase in sales was due to PR activity or to some other marketing activity . |
| 21 | Fact is frequently mixed with opinion and it is sometimes difficult to establish whether certain evidence is accepted or is merely being discussed . |
| 22 | It is sometimes difficult to know whether the purchaser has done an act adopting the transaction . |
| 23 | It is always difficult to judge whether a government is better off , in terms of parliamentary safety , with a large or a small majority . |
| 24 | The criterion of land under cultivation is crude , and resists refinement : it is exceedingly difficult to say whether in a particular country in a particular decade or generation the rate of growth was steady ; in some places at some times there may well have been local and temporary declines . |
| 25 | It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate . |
| 26 | This being said , it is extremely difficult to assess whether net environmental quality is being maintained or improved , since it is difficult to know what value future generations will place on the environments that will be damaged under MPG6 in order to feed development demands . |
| 27 | This being said , it is extremely difficult to assess whether net environmental quality is being maintained or improved , since it is difficult to know what value future generations will place on the environments that will be damaged under MPG6 in order to feed development demands . |
| 28 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |
| 29 | Of course , as others have remarked ( e.g. Palmer , 1984 ) , it is extremely difficult to prove that there is no gene flow between enclaves . |
| 30 | The problem for many people today is not that it is too difficult to believe but that it is too easy . |